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Frontiers in AI Evaluation
This seminar pairs a case study of AI diffusion with an organizational approach to technological changes in the workplace.
This seminar pairs a case study of AI diffusion with an organizational approach to technological changes in the workplace.
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.
The annual Causal Science Conference is a premier one-day, in-person event that brings together leading researchers and industry practitioners working in evaluation, experimentation, and causal inference. The conference showcases cutting-edge methodologies, emerging trends, and real-world applications that shape how data informs decision-making across domains.
This year’s conference will focus on AI evaluation, featuring diverse perspectives on how we evaluate AI systems—from methodological advances to applied case studies and normative inquiry.
General Admission: $375
Faculty/Staff: $85
Student/Postdoc: $45
Stanford Affiliates: Free
| Start Time | End Time | Session | Speaker(s) |
| 8:00 AM | 9:00 AM | Registration & Coffee | |
| 9:00 AM | 9:15 AM | Opening Remarks | Guido Imbens, Stanford Data Science Faculty Director, and Applied Econometrics Professor |
| 9:15 AM | 9:45 AM | AI's Models of the World, and Ours | Jon Kleinberg, Professor of Computer Science & Information Science, Cornell University |
| 9:45 AM | 10:15 AM | Why We Must Go Beyond Post-Training for Robust AI Alignment | Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making, MIT |
| 10:15 AM | 10:45 AM | Scalable Evaluation of Multimodal AI Systems for Creative Optimization | Bahareh Azarnoush, Director, Multimodal Generative AI & Causal Inference, Netflix |
| 10:45 AM | 11:15 AM | Break | |
| 11:15 AM | 11:45 AM | Evaluation Under Pressure: Lessons from Deploying Clinical AI at Scale | Zachary Lipton, Cofounder & CTO, Abridge | Associate Professor of Machine Learning, Carnegie Mellon University |
| 11:45 AM | 12:15 PM | AI and Human Learning | Emma Brunskill, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University |
| 12:15 PM | 1:45 PM | Lunch & Poster Session | |
| 1:45 PM | 2:15 PM | The Benchmark Problem | Benjamin Recht, Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley |
| 2:15 PM | 2:45 PM | Benchmarking to Advance the AI Frontier | Ofir Press, Research Scientist, Meta FAIR |
| 2:45 PM | 3:15 PM | Keeping up with AI capabilities | David Rein, Member of Technical Staff, METR |
| 3:15 PM | 3:45 PM | Break | |
| 3:45 PM | 4:15 PM | Towards Self-Driving Software Reliability | Anish Agarwal, CEO, Traversal | Assistant Professor, Columbia University |
| 4:15 PM | 4:45 PM | Optimize Your Agent's GPA with Coding Agents | Anupam Datta, Principal Research Scientist, Snowflake |
| 4:45 PM | 6:00 PM | Reception & Poster Session |
