UVA LLM Workshop 2026

The Workshop on Agentic and Generative AI for Science and Engineering

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