| Time | Activity | |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30AM - 9:00AM | Breakfast and Networking | |
| 9:00AM - 9:10AM | Opening Remark | Brian Smith, Senior Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs |
| 9:10AM - 10:10AM | Keynote | Jonathan Beever (Engineering and Society) Bridging Ethical Gaps in LLM Research and Design Beyond the Sandbox |
| 10:10AM - 10:20AM | Coffee Break | |
| 10:20AM - 12:00AM | Research Talks | Anil Vullikanti (Biocomplexity/CS): Agentic Framework for Epidemiological Modeling and Summarization Lei Li (Data Science): Learning Interactable 3D Worlds Chirag Agarwal (Data Science): Beyond Surface Reasoning: Deceptive Alignment and Latent Space Monitoring in Frontier AI Shunshun Liu (Materials Science): Knowledge extraction for materials science using agentic AI Stephen Turner (Data Science): Measuring What AI Biosecurity Benchmarks Predict: A randomized trial of model-assisted biological protocol design |
| 12:00PM - 1:00PM | Lunch/Poster Presentation | Jack Copeland, Zachary Gottesman, Savannah Lynn, Alejandro Vistorte Salgado, Rui Shen, Peng Wang, Sihe “Julie” Wang, Xinpeng Wang, Ding Zhang, Heng Zhao |
| 1:00PM - 1:50PM | Lightning Talks | Aya Yehia (Civil & Environmental Engineering): Rubric to Radar: Technology Forecasting through LLM Scoring Yingrong Mao (Data Science): Academic Simulacra: Forecasting Research Ideas through Multi-Agent LLM Simulations Khai-Nguyen Nguyen (Data Science): Multimodal large language models are biased Qiheng Lu (Electrical and Computer Engineering): Principled and Scalable Diversity-Aware Retrieval via Cardinality-Constrained Binary Quadratic Programming |
| 1:50PM - 2:00PM | Short Break | |
| 2:00PM - 3:00PM | Lightning Talks | Pranshuta Shukla (Computer Science): Evaluating LLM Vulnerability to Cognitive Bias in Women’s Healthcare Ke Wan (Computer Science): Attention Routing Stabilizes Early: Working-Set Inference for Recurrent-Depth Language Models Elizabeth Palmieri (Computer Science): AINEWSFACETS: A Dataset of Multi-Faceted News Framing Analysis on AI Narratives Indrajeet Ghosh (Systems and Information Engineering): Every Signal Counts: Multimodal Personalized Support for Endocrine Therapy Adherence in Breast Cancer Survivorship |
| 3:00PM - 3:05PM | Closing Remark |