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The Penn AI Symposium: Global Ideas Shaping Humanity

The inaugural Penn AI symposium, gathering AI experts across academic disciplines.

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Please join Penn AI for the inaugural Penn AI symposium.

The inaugural Penn AI Symposium is a landmark event gathering the world's leading minds to explore the frontiers of artificial intelligence.

The symposium is hosted by Penn AI, a University-wide initiative driving responsible AI innovation at Penn. The launch of Penn AI and the upcoming symposium signal a new chapter in Penn's commitment to pioneering the future of AI, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, and addressing the most significant scientific and societal questions of our time.

The symposium is open to faculty, students, and thought leaders, both internal and external to Penn. Penn AI is an interdisciplinary initiative, and speakers will address topics in Penn AI's core themes: AI Foundations, AI+Business, AI+Education, AI+Health, AI+Science, and AI+Society.

 

Jon M. Huntsman Hall

 

October 10 · 9am - October 11 · 5pm EDT

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Agenda: Day One

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Registration & Coffee 09:00 -9:20 a.m. Opening Remarks: Dean Vijay Kumar 09:20 - 09:45 a.m. Penn AI Introduction: Vision, Mission, Accomplishments, and Future Plans 09:45 - 10:30 a.m. AI Foundations: Kathleen McKeown

"Research Arcs within Natural Language Processing: Retrospective and Future Views"

 10:30 - 11:00 a.m. Coffee Break 11:00 - 11:45 a.m. AI + Business: Sanjog Misra

"Agentic Interactions"

 11:45 - 12:30 p.m. AI + Education: Ig Ibert Bittencourt

"AIED Unplugged: Expanding Learning Opportunities and Reducing Educational Inequities
in Resource-Constrained Environments"

 12:30 - 01:30 p.m. Lunch 01:30 - 02:15 p.m. AI + Health: Faisal Mahmood 02:15 - 03:00 p.m. AI + Science: Surya Ganguli

"Theories of Neural Computation Underlying Few-Shot Learning, Imagination and Reasoning in Brains and Machines"

 03:00 - 03:30 p.m. Coffee Break 03:30 - 04:15 p.m. AI + Society: Arvind Narayanan

"AI as Normal Technology"

 04:15 - 05:15 p.m. Panel: AI + Education

Panelists:  Hamsa Bastani, Ig Ibert Bittencourt, Seiji Isotani, Bhuvnesh Jain, Jérémie O Lumbroso, and Lilach Mollick. 

Agenda: Day Two

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Registration & Coffee 09:00 - 09:45 a.m. AI Foundations: Gregory D. Hager

"AGI for the Physical World: Will Today’s AI Get Us There?"

 09:45 - 10:30 a.m. AI + Society: Michael Horowitz

"Tracking AI Advances and Competition in the Shadow of Artificial General Intelligence"

 10:30 - 11:00 a.m. Coffee Break 11:00 - 11:45 a.m. AI + Education: Stefania Druga

"From Curiosity to Discovery: Building Multimodal AI for Education and Science"

 11:45 - 12:30 p.m. AI + Health: Guillermo Sapiro

“A Wearable-Based Aging Clock Associates with Disease and Behavior”

 12:30 - 01:30 p.m. Lunch Break 01:30 - 02:15 p.m. AI + Science: Andrew Connolly

"Unravelling the Universe in the Era of AI"

 02:15 - 03:00 p.m. AI + Society: Sharad Goel

“The Use and Misuse of AI in Graduate Admissions”

 3:00 - 3:30 p.m. Closing Ceremony

Speaker Lineup

Kathleen McKeown Headshot Kathleen McKeown Columbia University in the City of New York Henry and Gertrude Rothschild Professor of Computer Science Founding Director of Columbia's Data Science Institute SanjogMisraPhoto Sanjog Misra University of Chicago Charles H. Kellstadt Distinguished Service Professor of Marketing and Applied AI IgIgbertBittencourtHeadshot Ig Igbert Bittencourt Harvard University Visiting Scholar, Harvard Graduate School of Education Faisal Mahmood Headshot Faisal Mahmood Harvard University Associate Professor of Pathology Gregory D. Hager Gregory D. Hager Johns Hopkins University Mandell Bellmore Professor of Computer Science SuryaGanguliPhoto Surya Ganguli Stanford University Associate Professor of Applied Physics Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI Associate Professor, by courtesy, of Neurobiology and of Electrical Engineering ArvindNarayananPhoto Arvind Narayanan Princeton University Professor of Computer Science Director, Center for Information Technology Policy Michael C. Horowitz Headshot Michael C. Horowitz University of Pennsylvania Richard Perry Professor Director, Perry World House StefaniaDrugaPhoto Stefania Druga Sakana.ai Research Scientist Guillermo Sapiro Headshot Guillermo Saprio Princeton University Augustine Family Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Associated Faculty in the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning Associated Faculty in Princeton Precision Health Core Faculty in the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics Andrew Connolly Andrew Connolly University of Washington Director of the eScience Institute William P. and Ruth Gerberding University Professor Sharad Goel Headshot Sharad Goel Harvard University Professor of Public Policy