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AI+Science: Accelerating Discovery

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Date
Tuesday, May 05, 2026 8:30 AM - 6:45 PM PST/PDT
Location
Stanford University Campus
Topics
Sciences (Social, Health, Biological, Physical)
Government, Public Administration
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Speakers
Surya Ganguli headshot
Surya Ganguli
Associate Professor of Applied Physics, and by courtesy, of Neurobiology, of Electrical Engineering, and of Computer Science, Stanford University | Associate Director and Senior Fellow, Stanford HAI
James Landay
Denning Co-Director, Stanford HAI | Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
Risa Wechsler
Professor of Physics and of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Stanford University; Director, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory; Associate Director, Stanford Data Science Initiative
Speakers
Brian Hie
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University | HAI Faculty Affiliate, Stanford HAI
Andreas Tolias
Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University
Andrew White
Co Founder of Future House
Moderator
Russ Altman
Russ Altman
Kenneth Fong Professor and Professor of Bioengineering, of Genetics, of Medicine, of Biomedical Data Science | Associate Director and Senior Fellow, Stanford HAI | Professor, by courtesy, of Computer Science
Elizabeth Barnes
Dalton Family Chair in Environmental Data Science & Sustainability and Professor of Computing & Data Sciences and of Earth & Environment, Boston University
Jean Kossaifi
Senior Research Scientist, NVIDIA; PhD, Imperial College London
Laure Zanna
Joseph B. Keller and Herbert B. Keller Professor of Applied Mathematics, New York University
Moderator
David Lobell
Benjamin M. Page Professor, Earth System Science, Stanford University
Speaker
Darío Gil
Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy
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Kyle Cranmer
David R. Anderson Director of the UW–Madison Data Science Institute (DSI), powered by American Family Insurance
Carina Hong
Founder & CEO, Axiom
Doug Finkbeiner
Professor of Astronomy and of Physics, Harvard University
Moderator
Benjamin Nachman
Associate Professor of Particle Physics and Astrophysics and, by courtesy, of Physics and of Statistics
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Angèle Christin
Associate Professor of Communication, and, by courtesy, of Sociology, Stanford University | Senior Fellow, Stanford HAI
James Evans
Max Palevsky Professor, University of Chicago
Eun-Ah Kim
Hans Bethe Professor of Physics, Cornell University
James Zou
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science and, by courtesy, of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering
Moderators
Surya Ganguli headshot
Surya Ganguli
Associate Professor of Applied Physics, and by courtesy, of Neurobiology, of Electrical Engineering, and of Computer Science, Stanford University | Associate Director and Senior Fellow, Stanford HAI
Risa Wechsler
Professor of Physics and of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Stanford University; Director, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory; Associate Director, Stanford Data Science Initiative
Surya Ganguli headshot
Surya Ganguli
Associate Professor of Applied Physics, and by courtesy, of Neurobiology, of Electrical Engineering, and of Computer Science, Stanford University | Associate Director and Senior Fellow, Stanford HAI
Risa Wechsler
Professor of Physics and of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Stanford University; Director, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory; Associate Director, Stanford Data Science Initiative