Conference Agenda

Day 1 - Monday, October 27th, 2025

Time Event/Speakers Details
8:00 - 9:00 am Registration & Breakfast
9:00 - 9:20 am Welcome Jennifer Chayes, Chrissy Luo
9:20 - 10:10 am Animashree Anandkumar AI+Science: A Revolution In The Making
Chair: Jennifer Chayes
10:10 - 10:15 am Transition
10:15 - 11:05 am David Baker Design Of New Protein Functions Using Deep Learning
Virtual Presentation
Chair: Jennifer Chayes
11:05 - 11:25 am Break
11:25 am - 12:10 pm Panel Discussion Yan Li
Theresa Maldonado
Angela Pisco
Chair: Jennifer Chayes
12:10 - 1:10 pm Lunch
1:10 - 2:00 pm Omar M. Yaghi Agentic AI for Discovery of Materials
Chair: Yannis Yortsos
2:00 - 2:20 pm Break
2:20 - 3:10 pm Jennifer Doudna Innovation At The Intersection Of Biology And Computation
Chair: Yannis Yortsos
3:10 - 3:30 pm Break
3:30 - 4:50 pm AI Prize Award Ceremony 3:30 pm Chrissy Luo
3.35 pm Theresa Maldonado
3:40 pm Yury Suleymanov
3:45 pm Plaque Presentation to Award Recipients
4:00 pm Alizée Roobaert
4:15 pm Aditya Nair
4:30 pm Zhuoran Qiao
4:50 - 5.00 pm Closing Jennifer Chayes
5:00 - 6:30 pm Reception (in North Lobby)
Time Event/Speakers Details
8:00 am Registration & Breakfast
9:00 am Welcome Jennifer Chayes, Chrissy Luo
9:20 am Animashree Anandkumar AI+Science: A Revolution In The Making
Chair: Jennifer Chayes
10:10 am Transition
10:15 am David Baker Design Of New Protein Functions Using Deep Learning
Virtual Presentation
Chair: Jennifer Chayes
11:05 am Break
11:25 am Panel Discussion Yan Li
Theresa Maldonado
Angela Pisco
Chair: Jennifer Chayes
12:10 pm Lunch
1:10 pm Omar M. Yaghi Agentic AI for Discovery of Materials
Chair: Yannis Yortsos
2:00 pm Break
2:20 pm Jennifer Doudna Innovation At The Intersection Of Biology And Computation
Chair: Yannis Yortsos
3:10 pm Break
3:30 pm AI Prize Award Ceremony 3:30 pm Chrissy Luo
3.35 pm Theresa Maldonado
3:40 pm Yury Suleymanov
3:45 pm Plaque Presentation to Award Recipients
4:00 pm Alizée Roobaert
4:15 pm Aditya Nair
4:30 pm Zhuoran Qiao
4:50 pm Closing Jennifer Chayes
5:00 - 6:30 pm Reception (in North Lobby)

Day 2 - Tuesday, October 28th, 2025

Time Event/Speakers Details
8:00 - 9:00 am Registration & Breakfast
9:00 - 9:05 am Opening Pietro Perona
9:05 - 09:55 am Christopher Bishop The Fifth Paradigm of Scientific Discovery
Virtual Presentation
Chair: Pietro Perona
09:55 - 10:15 am Break
10:15 - 11:45 am Session 1 (Atrium)
10:15 am: Heather J. Kulik Leveraging experimental data in machine learning and screening to get from computational model to real world materials fast
10:45 am: Jia Deng The Promise of Procedural Synthetic Data for AI
11:15 am: Jiantao Jiao Towards Artificial Superintelligence: What Are We Missing?
Chair: Jian Pei
10:15 - 11:45 am Session 2 (North Lobby)
10:15 am: Maryam M. Shanechi AI-driven Neurotechnology
10:45 am: Zhandong Liu Empowering Clinicians with AI: A New Era of Collaboration for Better Patient Care
11:15 am: Tom Miller From Models to Medicines: Delivering on the Promise of AI-Driven Drug Discovery
Session 2 Chair: David Anderson
11:45 - 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 - 1:50 pm Larry Zitnick The Frontier of Modeling Atoms with AI
Chair: Animashree Anankumar
1:50 - 2:10 pm Break
2:10 - 3:30 pm Session 3: Best Paper Presentation (Atrium)
2:10 pm: Risto Miikkulainen and Swathi Kiran Paper 42: Gaining Insight into Brain Damage and Rehabilitation through Digital Twins
2:30 pm: Colin Camerer and Thomas Henning Paper 34: Synthetic AI Agents for Experimental Social Science
2:50 pm: Le Cong, Yuanhao Qu, Kaixuan Huang, Henry Cousins, and Mengdi Wang Paper 21: CRISPR-GPT for Agentic Automation of Gene Editing Experiments
3:10 pm: Frazier N. Baker, Daniel Adu-Ampratwum, Reza Averly, Botao Yu, Huan Sun and Xia Ning Paper 49: LARC : Towards Human-level Constrained Retrosynthesis Planning through an Agentic Framework
Chairs: Hamid Karimian and Parisa Kordjamshidi
2:10 - 3:30 pm Session 4: Poster Session (North Lobby) List of poster presentations
3:30 - 3:50 pm Break
3:50 - 4:10 pm Special Lecture: John Hennessy AI for the Good of Science and Society
Chair: Pietro Perona
4:10 - 4:55 pm Panel Discussion John Hennessy
Pietro Perona
Yannis Yortsos
Chair: Widya Mulyasasmita
4:55 - 5:10 pm Closing Tianqiao Chen
Time Event/Speakers Details
8:00 am Registration & Breakfast
9:00 am Opening Pietro Perona
9:05 am Christopher Bishop The Fifth Paradigm of Scientific Discovery
Virtual Presentation
Chair: Pietro Perona
09:55 am Break
10:15 am Session 1 (Atrium)
Heather J. Kulik Leveraging experimental data in machine learning and screening to get from computational model to real world materials fast
Jia Deng The Promise of Procedural Synthetic Data for AI
Jiantao Jiao Towards Artificial Superintelligence: What Are We Missing?
Chair: Jian Pei
10:15 am Session 2 (North Lobby)
Maryam M. Shanechi AI-driven Neurotechnology
Zhandong Liu Empowering Clinicians with AI: A New Era of Collaboration for Better Patient Care
Tom Miller From Models to Medicines: Delivering on the Promise of AI-Driven Drug Discovery
Session 2 Chair: David Anderson
11:45 am Lunch
1:00 pm Larry Zitnick The Frontier of Modeling Atoms with AI
Chair: Animashree Anankumar
1:50 pm Break
2:10 pm Session 3: Best Paper Presentation (Atrium)
Risto Miikkulainen and Swathi Kiran Gaining Insight into Brain Damage and Rehabilitation through Digital Twins
Colin Camerer and Thomas Henning Synthetic AI Agents for Experimental Social Science
Le Cong, Yuanhao Qu, Kaixuan Huang, Henry Cousins, and Mengdi Wang CRISPR-GPT for Agentic Automation of Gene Editing Experiments
Frazier N. Baker, Daniel Adu-Ampratwum, Reza Averly, Botao Yu, Huan Sun and Xia Ning LARC : Towards Human-level Constrained Retrosynthesis Planning through an Agentic Framework
Chairs: Hamid Karimian and Parisa Kordjamshidi
2:10 - 3:30 pm Session 4: Poster Session (North Lobby) List of poster presentations
3:30 pm Break
3:50 pm Special Lecture: John Hennessy AI for the Good of Science and Society
Pietro Perona
4:10 pm Panel Discussion John Hennessy
Pietro Perona
Yannis Yortsos
Chair: Widya Mulyasasmita
4:55 pm Closing Tianqiao Chen