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AI+Science: Accelerating Discovery

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Tuesday, May 05, 2026 8:30 AM - 6:45 PM PST/PDT
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Stanford University; Location disclosed to registered guests in email communications
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Sciences (Social, Health, Biological, Physical)
Government, Public Administration
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AI for the Universe

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James F. and Mary Lynn Gibbons Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford School of Engineering, and the Shriram Family Director of Stanford’s Knight-Hennessy Scholars, Stanford University
James Landay
Denning Director, Stanford HAI | Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
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Fei-Fei Li
Founding Director, Stanford HAI | Sequoia Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
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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 Director, Stanford HAI | Anand Rajaraman and Venky Harinarayan Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
Jonathan Levin
Jonathan Levin
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Brian Hie
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University | HAI Faculty Affiliate, Stanford HAI
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Assistant Professor of Genetics and Computer Science
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Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University
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Joseph B. Keller and Herbert B. Keller Professor of Applied Mathematics, New York University
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David Lobell
Benjamin M. Page Professor, Earth System Science, Stanford University
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Darío Gil
Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy
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Kyle Cranmer
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Carina Hong
Founder & CEO, Axiom
Doug Finkbeiner
Professor of Astronomy and of Physics, Harvard University
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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
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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
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