Kudos to Bodhi Pramanik and Zhiang Wang on new best-ever benchmark results for balanced hypergraph min-cut partitioning in the k-way regime – extending their ICCAD-2022 SpecPart work. Follow the leaderboard and open source at github.com/TILOS-AI-Insti… !

Thanks to NVIDIA researchers Anthony Agnesina and Mark Ren for a great devblog post about AutoDMP developer.nvidia.com/blog/autodmp-o… and for using the benchmarks and evaluation flows in github.com/TILOS-AI-Insti… !

Kudos to Mr. Shreyas Thumathy of Canyon Crest Academy in San Diego for launching the Multi-Source Prim-Dijkstra machine learning contest github.com/TILOS-AI-Insti… based on his ISQED-2023 paper and OpenROAD OpenROAD P-D code github.com/The-OpenROAD-P… . Over $7000 in prizes!

Video of the TILOS Early Career Development in Industry panel is up on our YouTube channel youtube.com/watch?v=yZb5sW… with a great discussion from Ismail Bustany, Anna Goldie, Liangzhen Lai, Vahab Mirrokni and Ruchir Puri. Kudos + thanks to panelists and UT's Keren Zhu and Jiaqi Gu!

Thanks to our TILOS undergraduate intern, Alejandro, for designing and leading an activity with Morse High School students about predictive analytics! drive.google.com/file/d/1KVIRdt…

Here's a prototype of the data-driven robotic art activity we piloted with Morse High School students back in November! Designed by Saura Naderi drive.google.com/file/d/19LvntL…

.National University is partnering with TILOS AI Institute to develop career-relevant technology courses for adult STEMM learners from historically excluded communities. The initiative aims to support 2,000 students seeking gainful employment in STEMM fields by 2024.

The MLCAD23 FPGA Macro Placement Contest is now live! github.com/TILOS-AI-Insti… . Kudos to Dr. Ismail Bustany, Mr. Bodhi Pramanik and a great team. $6K in prizes to the top 5 entries - thanks to OpenROAD ! #MLCAD23

Prof. David Pan shares his vision for how chip engineers plan to use AI ! Three-part coverage of the Semiconductor Engineering roundtable at DesignCon 2023: (Part 1) semiengineering.com/ai-tool-or-thr… , (Part 2) semiengineering.com/ai-becoming-mo… , (Part 3) semiengineering.com/how-chip-engin…

The latest TILOS Seminar, "What Kinds of Functions do Neural Networks Learn? Theory and Practical Applications", with Robert Nowak of UW Madison is now available online: youtu.be/QiW80uDho4E #NeuralNetworks #DeepLearning #RepresentationLearning #MultiTaskLearning

A new partnership between TILOS and San Diego State University has been awarded a $2.8 million #NSF #ExpandAI grant for expanding #AI education and research opportunities for students, with a focus on diversity within the AI research community. sdsu.edu/news/2024/07/n…

New video interview with TILOS Foundations team member Yian Ma: "Building (Fast & Reliable) Machine Learning Systems" youtube.com/watch?v=2SUjra… #MachineLearning #BayesianInference #DataScience #UCSD #HDSI #ScalableAlgorithms #TimeSeriesAnalysis #SequentialDecisionMaking

ICML "Behind the Scene Chats" with Zico Kolter Zico Kolter (co-PC) and Nicholas Carlini from Google DeepMind, hosted by Amin Karbasi Amin Karbasi. Why we should all care about AI safety and security. youtube.com/watch?v=J5bONk…

Exciting to see this big investment in #AI from TILOS member institution Yale University University! yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/08/2…

Congratulations to TILOS Faculty Affiliate Rose Yu, named to MIT MIT Technology Review's list of innovators under 35! technologyreview.com/innovator/rose…

UC San Diego just leveled up to the No. 3 public university in the U.S. according to the 2024 Academic Ranking of World Universities by ShanghaiRanking! 🌎🎉 We also advanced to No. 14 in the nation and No. 18 worldwide. 🌟 #TritonPride #UCSD #UCSanDiego bit.ly/3XricFn

The website for our #NSF ExpandAI partnership with SDSU is live! This program brings opportunities for cutting-edge #AI research and education to the diverse community of innovators and future leaders in the San Diego region. expandai.sdsu.edu/index.html

The 2024-25 TILOS Seminar series begins Wednesday, October 2, with Krishna Kalyanam, aerospace engineer at NASA Ames Research Center, on applications of #AI, #ML, and #NLP to unmanned aircraft systems and air traffic management. tilos.ai/events/tilos-s…

At this year's Summit for AI Institutes Leadership TILOS shared how we bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI research and real-world applications. At AI Institutes Expo Day we showcased a favorite K-12 outreach project: a robotic flower that blooms when you smile at it.

New research by TILOS Robotics team members at Penn Engineering demonstrates that malicious prompts can "jailbreak" AI-powered robots and cause them to perform unsafe actions: eurekalert.org/news-releases/…