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TILOS Outreach Director Saura Naderi and Chanda Jefferson, Director of Community Engagement & Outreach at TILOS member institution University of Pennsylvania, led a workshop on Data-driven Robotic Art at the inaugural Data Science Education K-12: Research to Practice Conference, February 17-19, 2025 in San Antonio, Texas.

The Data-driven Robotic Art activity is just one of many initiatives developed through TILOS in partnership with the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute and Penn Engineering Outreach to empower K-12 teachers and students with hands-on instructional activities about data science, optimization, and AI.

Tutorial on AI Alignment

Horizons for Optimization in AI Workshop

Our annual TILOS Industry Day will be Monday, June 2, 2025 at the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego.

Recordings of all TILOS Seminars and other presentations are at tilos.ai/recorded-talks.

Robotics team member Xiaolong Wang receives 2025 Sloan Research Fellowship in Computer Science

Sloan Research Fellows represent the most promising early-career scientists working today. Their achievements and potential place them among the next generation of scientific leaders in the U.S. and Canada.

Who to Vaccinate First? Penn Engineers Answer a Life-or-Death Question with Network Theory

Engineering and medical researchers at Penn, including TILOS Networks team member Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti, have developed a groundbreaking framework that can determine the best and most computationally optimized distribution strategy for COVID-19 vaccinations in any given community.

Construction robot researchers target dangerous and dirty jobs

With nearly $800,000 in grant funding, a team of scientists at UC San Diego, including TILOS Robotics team member Nikolay Atanasov, is exploring ways to integrate robotics into the building industry and improve 3D modeling and mapping.

TILOS Faculty Affiliate Rose Yu honored with Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers early in their careers. PECASE recognizes scientists and engineers who show exceptional potential for leadership early in their research careers.

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