Research Workshops AI Workshop

Faculty and invited speakers present current AI and machine learning research. Meetings are open to all interested faculty and PhD students. The workshop will be held in-person. When possible, links to the workshop papers are posted to this page for printing. Occasionally, speakers opt not to circulate their papers, in which case the link will be unavailable. Workshop will take place on Wednesdays from 10-11am (unless otherwise noted), room TBD. Sign-up to our seminar listserv for weekly updates.

Please contact Lauren Doan (lauren.doan@chicagobooth.edu) with any questions.

Fall 2026

Date 

Time 

Room 

Topic 

Speaker 

Institution

October 14, 2026 10-11am 219 TBD Rada Mihalcea University of Michigan
October 19, 2026 10:30-11:30am 104 TBD
Eric Horvitz Microsoft
October 21, 2026 10-11am 219 TBD John Horton
MIT
October 28, 2026 10-11am 219 TBD Emma Pierson UC Berkeley
November 4, 2026  10-11am  C25  TBD  Osbert Bastani University of Pennsylvania
November 11, 2026  10-11am  C25 TBD  Nicholas Caputo  Johns Hopkins University 
November 18, 2026  10-11am C25 TBD Nicholas Tomlin TTIC

Spring 2026

Date 

Time 

Room 

Topic 

Speaker 

Institution

April 3, 2026 12-1pm C09 Measuring How People Use AI — and What It Means for Work and Learning Alex Tamkin Anthropic
April 10, 2026 112-1pm C09 The Right Prediction at the Right Time: Designing AI for Clinical Workflows
Jenna Wiens Michigan
April 17, 2026 12-1pm C09 Toward Generative Models that can be Deployed in the Real World Hila Chefer Tel Aviv
May 8, 2026 12-1pm C09 Towards Self-Improving Machine Perception Georgia Gkioxari Cal Tech