| The nexus of learning, optimization, and the leading edge of practice for chip design, networks, and robotics.
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SDSU-TILOS ExpandAI Workshop
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On Friday, March 20, 2026 TILOS and NSF ExpandAI partner San Diego State University (SDSU) hosted a joint workshop at UC San Diego, featuring research talks from SDSU faculty and TILOS members and faculty affiliates. Students from both institutions presented multi-institutional collaborative work during lightning talks and a poster session. ExpandAI@SD brings cutting-edge AI research and education to the diverse community of innovators and future leaders in the San Diego region through sustainable collaborations in the AI Institutes ecosystem that expand AI initiatives at SDSU.
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Upcoming Events & Workshops
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| Friday, April 10, 2026 | University of Pennsylvania
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Co-sponsored by TILOS and the GRASP Lab at Penn Engineering, the agenda includes industry speakers and panelists from Eka Robotics, Microsoft Research, Burro, Diligent Robotics, Serve Robotics, Samsung Research America, DYNA, FORT Robotics, Google DeepMind, Seegrid, GE Aerospace Research, and Amazon Robotics, plus faculty from UC San Diego, Penn, University of Washington, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and UC Berkeley.
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Monday, April 27, 2026 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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This workshop focuses on developing trustworthy AI systems by principled design: models that are interpretable, robust, and aligned across the full lifecycle—from training and evaluation to inference-time behavior and deployment.
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Wednesday, June 3, 2026 (tentative) | Denver, Colorado
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Contemporary vision models and vision-language models are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains, yet remain opaque, fragile, and difficult to align across tasks and modalities. This workshop aim to foster dialogue on the urgent need for transparent, reliable, and safe computer vision systems, especially in critical domains such as healthcare, transportation, and legal decision making.
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The CAD Contest at ICCAD is a challenging, multi-month, research and development competition, focusing on advanced, real-world problems in the field of Electronic Design Automation (EDA). It is open to multi-person teams world-wide. Each year the organizing committee announce three challenging problems in different topic areas provided by industrial companies. Contestants can participate in one or more problems. The prizes will be awarded at an ICCAD special session dedicated to this contest.
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For the 2025/26 academic year TILOS is co-hosting a new Optimization for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence seminar series. This new series compliments the TILOS seminar series, which features speakers on the foundations of AI and optimization, as well as the use-domains of chip design, networks, and robotics. The full schedule for both series is available at tilos.ai/seminar-series.
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University of Pennsylvania
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TILOS Members + Research in the News
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Congratulations to all the TILOS members who recently received recognitions and awards!
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2026 San Diego Jewish Arts
Festival Women of STEM
Honoree
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TILOS K-12 Outreach Director
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| 2024-2025 UC San Diego Jacobs
School of Engineering
Undergraduate Teaching Award
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| 2025 Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement
of Science (AAAS)
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Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute
Endowed Chair
in Artificial Intelligence
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| Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute
Endowed Chair
in Data Science
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| Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute
Endowed Chair
in Artificial Intelligence
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A team of researchers, including TILOS Foundations team member Misha Belkin and graduate student Daniel Beaglehole, has found a way to steer the output of large language models by manipulating specific concepts inside these models. The new method could lead to more reliable, more efficient, and less computationally expensive training of LLMs. But it also exposes potential vulnerabilities. Read the full story in UC San Diego Today.
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Will artificial intelligence ever be able to reason, learn and solve problems at levels comparable to humans? Four experts at the UC San Diego, including TILOS Foundations team member Misha Belkin and faculty affiliate Eddy Keming Chen, believe the answer is yes—and that such artificial general intelligence has already arrived. Read the full story in UC San Diego Today, and the article in Nature here.
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