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Latest updates and announcements from Ilija Lichkovski — publications, talks, and research milestones.
| Feb 25, 2026 | Co-authors Tiwai Mhundwa and Mariam Ibrahim presented our research at the International Association for Safe & Ethical AI [recording]. |
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| Jan 05, 2026 | Guest lecture at the Data Challenges in AI Systems course at the University of Groningen [slides] |
| Dec 26, 2025 | Demo-ed the MAKSTAT agent to the National Statistical Office in Macedonia after managing a team of undergraduate engineers to build one of the first examples of AI-enabled statistical office tooling in Europe. |
| Oct 01, 2025 | Starting an RL residency at Prime Intellect, where I’ll be working on a novel approach for imparting efficient weight updates of foundation models. |
| Sep 23, 2025 | Our paper on evaluating AI agent legal compliance, in collaboration with Alexander Müller, Mariam Ibrahim and Tiwai Mhundwa, has been accepted to RegML @ NeurIPS 2025. |
| Sep 22, 2025 | Our collaboration with Jeremias Ferrao, Matthijs van der Lende and Clement Neo has been accepted as a spotlight at the Mechanistic Interpretability workshop at NeurIPS 2025. |
| Jul 27, 2025 | Our hackathon project alongside Jeremias Ferrao has won the 3rd place at the Physics X AI Safety Grand Challenge by Apart Research. |