TILOS Industry Day 2025

Our 4th Annual Industry Day will be June 2, 2025, at the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego, the campus hub for data science. This year TILOS Industry Day will feature:

Talks from invited industry speakers sharing their perspectives on challenges in AI + Optimization + Use-domains (chips, robotics, networks)
Research highlights from TILOS team members
Panel discussions on AI Challenges for Academia—An Industry Perspective and Building Deep Tech Companies
Poster session featuring the work of TILOS trainees (students and postdoctoral scholars)

Confirmed Speakers and Panelists

Date & Time

Monday, June 2, 2025
8:00am - 7:00pm

Registration

Registration is complementary but required as space is limited. Register HERE by Wednesday, May 28, 2025.

Venue

Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute Room 123
University of California, San Diego
3234 Matthews Lane
La Jolla, CA 92093
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Parking

Visitor parking on the UC San Diego campus is very limited. The best option is the Hopkins Parking Structure (9800 Hopkins Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093; half mile walk to venue). Visitor ("V") spaces with no time limit are on the top level. Parking fees are payable at pay stations or pay-by-phone. Note that some "V" spaces are limited to two hours (marked in each space). Even though the app allows you to pay for longer periods, you will get a ticket after that time if parked in a 2-hour space.

While closer to the venue, the Gilman Parking Structure (252 Russell Ln, La Jolla, CA 92093) has only a small number of "V" spaces with no time limit on level 1, and these may already be taken.

Contacts

Schedule

8:00 - 8:45am	Registration & Breakfast
8:45 - 9:00am	Opening Remarks Yusu Wang, TILOS Director Vijay Kumar, TILOS Associate Director of Translation
9:00 - 10:05am	SESSION 1: Chips Chair: David Pan, TILOS & UT Austin
9:00 - 9:35am	Industry Keynote Mark Ren, Director of Design Automation Research, NVIDIA
9:35 - 9:50am	TILOS Faculty Talk Hamed Hassani, University of Pennsylvania
9:50 - 10:05am	TILOS Faculty Talk Tajana Rosing, UC San Diego
10:05 - 10:15am	Short Break
10:15 - 11:20am	SESSION 2: Networks Chair: Yusu Wang, TILOS & UC San Diego
10:15 - 10:50am	Industry Keynote: Driving mobile wireless network innovations in the era of Artificial Intelligence Vijay Shirsathe, VP of Engineering, Qualcomm
10:50 - 11:05am	TILOS Faculty Talk Alejandro Ribeiro, University of Pennsylvania
11:05 - 11:20am	TILOS Faculty Talk Farinaz Koushanfar, UC San Diego
11:20 - 11:30am	Short Break
11:30am - 12:15pm	Panel Discussion: AI Challenges for Academia—An Industry Perspective Nageen Himayat, Senior Principal Engineer, Intel Soonho Kong, Principal Applied Scientist, Amazon Web Services Subarna Tripathi, Research Scientist, Intel Labs Moderator: Farinaz Koushanfar, TILOS & UC San Diego
12:15 - 1:15pm	Lunch
1:15 - 2:00pm	SESSION 3: TILOS Research by Industry Partners Chair: Arya Mazumdar, TILOS & UC San Diego
1:15 - 1:30pm	David Gonzalez Aguirre, Research Scientist, Intel Labs
1:30 - 1:45pm	The surprising power of small language models Mojan Javaheripi, Senior Researcher, Microsoft
1:45 - 2:00pm	Boosting AI Scalability with Agile SoC Design Augusto Vega, Senior Researcher, IBM Research
2:00 - 3:15pm	TILOS Trainee Lightning Talks & Poster Session
2:00 - 2:30pm	Lightning Talks Chair: Souvik Kundu, Intel Labs
2:30 - 3:15pm	Poster Session & Coffee
3:15 - 4:05pm	SESSION 4: Robotics Chair: Vijay Kumar, TILOS & University of Pennsylvania
3:15 - 3:50pm	Industry Keynote Jonathan Hurst, Co-Founder & Chief Robot Officer, Agility Robotics
3:50 - 4:05pm	TILOS Faculty Talk Camillo J. Taylor, University of Pennsylvania
4:05 - 4:15pm	Short Break
4:15 - 5:00pm	Panel Discussion: Building Deep Tech Companies Daniel Hoffmann, Senior Director of Software Engineering, Brain Corp Henrik Christensen, TILOS & UC San Diego Katie Vasquez, Calibrate Ventures Moderator: Vijay Kumar, TILOS & University of Pennsylvania
5:00 - 7:00pm	Dinner