ExpandAI Summer Research Internship Program

The ExpandAI team partners with SDSU’s MESA and STEM Pathways programs to host the annual Summer Research Internship Program at SDSU.

  • The 2025 camp information, including participating students, research projects, and presentation highlights, can be found HERE.

 

MESA Summer Undergraduate Research Academy

The ExpandAI team partners with MESA at SDSU to host an 8-week summer undergraduate research academy. Through this program, students will have the opportunity to engage in a research project focused on AI or robotics. For application details and additional information, please click HERE.

 

STEM Pathways Summer Research Program

The ExpandAI team partners with the STEM Pathways program at SDSU to host a summer research program for STEM transfer students currently enrolled at San Diego City College or Southwestern College. Through this program, students will have the opportunity to engage in a research project focused on AI or robotics. For application details and additional information, please click HERE.

 

"AI & Robotics in Autonomy" Poster Session

The ExpandAI team organizes special sessions on "AI & Robotics in Autonomy" at the SDSU Student Symposium (S3). These sessions invite undergraduate and graduate students to present research in AI and robotics that advances next-generation autonomous aerial, ground, and marine systems. A Best Poster Award is presented, and top presenters are invited to showcase their work to researchers at UC San Diego.

  • Information on the Best Poster Award winner, along with details about the 2026 venue, can be found HERE.

 

SDSU-TILOS AI Workshop

The ExpandAI team collaborates with TILOS to organize AI workshops aimed at fostering collaboration among students and faculty from SDSU and TILOS.

  • The 2025 workshop was held as a special session at the Information Theory and Applications (ITA) Workshop, featuring research presentations by SDSU and TILOS faculty. Additional information can be found HERE.
  • The 2026 workshop was held at UC San Diego and included research presentations by SDSU and TILOS faculty, along with student lightning talks and poster sessions. More information can be found HERE.

 

SDSU Robotics Summer Camp

The ExpandAI team partners with the Talent Search and Upward Bound programs to host the annual summer Robotics Camp at SDSU.

  • The 2025 camp, held from July 14 to July 21, was offered in collaboration with the Talent Search Program. Additional information can be found HERE.
  • The 2026 camp will be offered in partnership with the Upward Bound program. Application details and further information can be found HERE.

 

TILOS Industry Day

TILOS Industry Day features invited talks from industry experts on challenges in AI, optimization, and applications such as chips, robotics, and networks, along with research highlights, panel discussions, and a poster session showcasing work by TILOS trainees.

  • The 2025 event was held on June 2 at the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego. The ExpandAI team participated, with students presenting their research at the event.

 

TILOS Visitor Programs

Modern AI and optimization are closely intertwined: On one hand, optimization is a core component of modern AI. On the other hand, AI can significantly accelerate solving hard optimization problems in practice. At TILOS we aim to co-advance modern AI and optimization, and pioneer learning-enabled optimizations to transform chip design, robotics, networks and other high-stakes use domains. We welcome visiting researchers from both the foundational front (e.g., optimization in modern ML architectures (including LLMs), federated learning and distributed optimization, ML for (combinatorial) optimization, dynamic decision making, representation learning) and the practical front (translating learning + optimization for our core use domains). Find more information about the TILOS visitor programs HERE.