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TILOS members, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students presented more than two dozen research results at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December 9-15, 2024 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. See the full list here.

TILOS students, postdoctoral scholars, and friends enjoying a lunch at NeurIPS 2024.

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

Curiosity Ignited: Showcasing How AI is Accelerating Discoveries

TILOS Networks team co-lead Tara Javidi and faculty affiliate David Danks were invited speakers at the inaugural Curiosity Ignited academic symposium on November 9, which explored topics of AI and its connection to interdisciplinary research at UC San Diego. 

Robotics team member Xiaolong Wang of UC San Diego receives 2024 J. K. Aggarwal Prize

The J. K. Aggarwal Prize is given to a young scientist who has brought substantial contributions to a field that is relevant to the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) Community and whose research work has had a major impact on the field. Dr. Wang received the prize "for his groundbreaking contributions to advancing visual representation learning, utilizing self-supervised and attention-based models to establish fundamental frameworks for creating versatile, general-purpose pattern recognition systems."

Foundations team member Amin Karbasi receives 2024 Yale Faculty Innovation Award

Awardees were recognized on November 6 during a ceremony with Yale President Maurie McInnis, Provost Scott Strobel, Vice Provost for Research Michael Crair, and the Deans of the schools of Medicine, Engineering, Environment, Public Health, Law, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Foundations team member Nisheeth Vishnoi of Yale elected to 2025 class of AMS Fellows

Forty-one mathematical scientists from around the world have been named Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for 2025. Recognized by their peers, AMS members designated as Fellows of the AMS have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication, and utilization of mathematics.

Chips team co-lead Farinaz Koushanfar of UC San Diego inducted into National Academy of Inventors

Professor Koushanfar is among the 170 fellows announced by the NAI this year whose innovations are making significant tangible societal and economic impacts today and will well into the future. Election to NAI Fellow is the highest professional distinction awarded solely to academic inventors.

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