How to Do AI Research
That Matters

Schedule

Opening (45 min)
Manuela Veloso / The History of AI Research & What It Means to Do Ambitious, Impactful Research.

Core Sessions (2 × 30 min)

Stefano Albrecht / From Ideas to Experiments: Effectively framing problems, rigorous evaluation, and learning from failures.

Reuth Mirsky / From Experiments to Papers: Writing strong papers in the era of foundation models, reproducibility, and reporting of empirical results

Panel (45 min)

Invited panelists from academia, industry, and government discuss their views on impactful research and advice to PhD students.

Open Discussion (45 min)

Audience–driven Q&A and dialogue, informed by a pre-conference survey.

Refreshments / Networking

Coffee, tea, snacks, and light food to foster informal interactions.