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The National Science Foundation is investing $ 20 million in artificial intelligence research at UC San Diego.
UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering will host one of 11 artificial intelligence institutes with a total investment of $ 220 million.
The San Diego-based Institute for Learning-enabled Optimization at Scale (TILOS) is directed by the University of California San Diego.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the San Diego-based National University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Texas at Austin, Yale University, and Intel Corp. work together on this topic.
Each of the 11 institutes recognized by the NSF received a five-year scholarship with the aim of improving various aspects of AI.
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In San Diego, researchers hope artificial intelligence will help them optimize the way specialized computer architectures are built.
“It’s the scale and complexity that block us today, and we want to break through those barriers,” said Andrew Kahng.
Artificial intelligence could help sift through mountains of data to uncover efficiency gains that could lead to improvements in the technology of self-driving cars, telecommunications, and the development of basic computer chips.
An important part of the research fellowship is working with local industry, a process that is already underway in San Diego.
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“We have a natural, close collaboration or relationship with industry,” said Kahng. “Especially in the priority areas or areas of application suggested by us, in chip design, in robotics and in communication networks.”
Machines can learn to process huge amounts of data and then use the results to improve things like the architecture of computer chips.
These upgrades could lead to the development of computer processors that use less energy while increasing their computing power. Hopefully the work will fuel tremendous advances in self-driving car technology that is already being worked on at UC San Diego.
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“As a global society, we cannot afford to miss advances in optimization,” said Pradeep K. Khosla, Chancellor of UC San Diego. “The TILOS team is an incredible combination of engineers, computer scientists, data scientists and educators who tackle the toughest theoretical and applied optimization challenges through positive feedback loops to ensure that progress in the real world makes a positive difference.”
The NSF funding is the second round of funding for artificial intelligence.
Meanwhile, the effort has grown to include the work of several hundred researchers studying various aspects of machine learning.
San Diego researchers are already talking about how research should proceed when federal funding expires in five years.
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