2025 Stanford HAI Orientation
Meet your faculty and peers, and find out more about the ways in which you can get involved. After the event, stay for HAI Seminar at 3pm!
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Meet your faculty and peers, and find out more about the ways in which you can get involved. After the event, stay for HAI Seminar at 3pm!
Open to Stanford community members! We are hosting an interactive orientation featuring faculty insights, networking, and opportunities to explore AI and data science research, programs, and resources across Stanford.
Open to Stanford community members! We are hosting an interactive orientation featuring faculty insights, networking, and opportunities to explore AI and data science research, programs, and resources across Stanford.
As AI moves beyond language into systems that can perceive, understand, and act in the physical world, a new frontier is emerging: world models—AI systems that build and maintain working representations of real environments to predict how they change in response to action.

As AI moves beyond language into systems that can perceive, understand, and act in the physical world, a new frontier is emerging: world models—AI systems that build and maintain working representations of real environments to predict how they change in response to action.
Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.

Sessions run Wednesdays from 4:30–5:30 PM in CoDa E160. Each session features a different Stanford speaker; talk titles are announced by the organizers.
We are excited to invite you to the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) Orientation on October 8th from 1:00pm - 2:30pm. This event is a fantastic opportunity to learn more about our work, meet faculty and peers, and discover the various ways you can get involved with our initiatives.
Whether you're a student, faculty member, or staff, we welcome you to join us and become part of our growing community. This orientation is designed to introduce you to the cutting-edge research and educational opportunities available in artificial intelligence and data science at Stanford.
For this year’s orientation, we are pleased to include our partnering organization the Stanford Data Science Initiative. We're thrilled to welcome everyone, from those just beginning to explore these fields to experienced researchers looking to expand their network and knowledge.
Following the orientation, please stick around for a special HAI seminar, book signing, and reception to celebrate the launch of Flash Teams, a new book from HAI Senior Fellows Melissa Valentine and Michael Bernstein!