Speakers
AI Research Week features keynotes, panels, and workshops lead by a range of distinguished speakers.
Yoshua Bengio
A.M. Turing Award
Full Professor, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, Université de Montréal
Canada Research Chair in Statistical Learning Algorithms
Founder and Scientific Director of Mila
Scientific Director of IVADO. CIFAR Fellow and Program Director
Josh Tenenbaum
Professor, Dept of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Collin Stultz
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, MIT
Faculty at Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Cardiologist, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)
Cynthia Breazeal
Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Media Lab
Song Han
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT
Kate Saenko
Boston University & MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
Antonio Torralba
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT
MIT Director of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
Inaugural Director of the MIT Quest for Intelligence
Lisa Amini
Director, IBM Research Cambridge, AI Horizons Network
Director, AI Horizons Network
Vivienne Sze
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Chris R. Sims
Assistant Professor, Department of Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Aleksandra Mojilovic
Head of AI Foundations, IBM Research
Co-Director of IBM Science for Social Good
IBM Fellow
Pulkit Agrawal
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT
Andrew McCallum
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Roger Levy
Associate Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT
Director of the Computational Psycholinguistics Laboratory
Michael Carbin
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT
Julie Shah
Associate Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT
Associate Professor, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT
Alexander Schwing
Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
Jerry Chow
IBM, Manager, Experimental Quantum Computing
Milind Tambe
Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
John Torous
Director, Digital Psychiatry, Mary Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Dilip Jeste
Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, UCSD
Ellen Lee
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, UCSD
Colin Depp
Director, Research Education and Training, Clinical and Translational Research Institute, UCSD
Camille Nebeker
Director, Research Center for Optimal Digital Ethics, UCSD
Ho-Cheol Kim
Program Director, AI for Healthy Living, IBM
Wenchao Li
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University
Bo Li
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Stefanie Jegelka
Assistant Professor, MIT
Luca Daniel
Professor, MIT
Jessica Freaner
Data Scientist and Design Lead, IDEO
Jennifer Sukis
Design Principal of AI & Machine Learning, IBM
Yanzhi Wang
Assistant Professor, Northeastern University, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Natesh Pillai
Professor of Statistics at Harvard University
Tamara Broderick
Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Finale Doshi-Velez
Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Rebecca Saxe
John W. Jarve (1978) Professor in Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Associate Investigator McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Jeremy Schwartz
Seth Alter
Martin Schrimpf
James Traer
Ronald Alvarez
Mercer University
Jan-Willem van de Meent
Assistant professor in the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern
T.S. Jayram
IBM Research
Akash Srivastava
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
Daniel Yamins
Computational Neuroscientist, Stanford University
Jiajun Wu
MIT
Tomer D. Ullman
Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Computational Cognitive Science Group
Mohit Iyyer
Assistant Professor, Umass, Amherst
Nianwen Xue
Assistant Professory, Brandeis University
Lu Wang
Assistant Professor, Northeaster University
Niranjan Balasubramanian
Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University
Rose Yu
Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
Philip Isola
Assistant Professory, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT
Tianxiao Shen
MIT
Sebastian Gehrmann
Harvard University
Tommi Jaakkola
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT
Nicolas Papernot
Assistant Professory at the University of Toronto and Canada
Zico Kolter
Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Venkat Venkatakrishnan
Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Wen Mei-Hwu
Walter J. Sanders III-AMD Endowed Chair professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Michele Ferrante
NIH/NIMH Program Chief: Computational Neuroscience & Psychiatry
Elias Bareinboim
director of the Causal Artificial Intelligence (CausalAI) Laboratory
Associate Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University
David Sontag
Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT
Kun Zhang
Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Kalyan Veeramachaneni
Principal Research Scientist, MIT LIDS
Hendrik Strobelt
Research Scientist, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
Payel Das
Manager of AI Science, IBM
Christine M. Kretz
VP Programs and Partnerships, International Space Station US National Laboratory
Richard M. Linnehan
NASA Astronaut
David Brady
Associate Program Scientist, ISS Program, NASA
Danielle Woods
Assistant Professor in the Program in Media Arts and Sciences within the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard Linares
Charles Stark Draper Assistant Professor; Co-Director, Space Systems Lab
Schedule
AI Research Week is 5-days of innovation, inspiration and insights featuring notable speakers, panels, workshops, networking and mentorship from leading figures in AI research.
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