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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].
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.