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October 2026Ilia is co-chairing CogSci 2027, "Human Cognition in the Age of AI", in Bilbao, Spain, July 28–31, 2027.

August 2026The lab opens at Purdue with six PhD students; the graduate seminar "AI Thought Partners" begins.

July 2026Four lab papers at CogSci 2026, and the workshop "The Cognitive Science of AI Alignment" runs at the conference.

May 2026Revisiting Rogers' Paradox in the context of human-AI interaction is published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.

April 2026New preprint: Language Model Teams as Distributed Systems (Mieczkowski et al.) reframes multi-agent LLM workflows using distributed-systems primitives.

March 2026Identifying, evaluating, and mitigating risks of AI thought partnerships is published in ACM AI Letters.

March 2026New preprints: Human-AI Synergy Supports Collective Creative Search and Why Human Guidance Matters in Collaborative Vibe Coding.

January 2026Ilia is serving as Area Chair for ICLR 2026, ICML 2026, and NeurIPS 2026.

December 2025Awarded a Google Gemini Academic Program Award and a Tinker Research Award.

September 2025Co-PI on a new $5M DARPA "In the Moment" (ITM) program on algorithmic trust at scale.

April 2025Community paper Getting aligned on representational alignment accepted at TMLR.

March 2025Explicitly unbiased LLMs still form biased associations published in PNAS.

September 2024Ilia starts as a Faculty Fellow / Assistant Professor at NYU CDS.

August 2024Collins, Sucholutsky et al.'s Building Machines That Learn and Think with People (Nature Human Behaviour) sets out what it takes for an AI system to be a thought partner.

December 2023Alignment with human representations supports robust few-shot learning is a NeurIPS Spotlight.