Program

WiML Symposium

Wednesday July 8th, 2026 

Location: COEX Convention & Exhibition Center, ROOM  E1-E4

The WiML Symposium 2026 Program Book will be released soon!

All events are scheduled in local time (KST). 

The program includes talks, breakout sessions, program breaks, roundtables, and panel discussions (color-coded).

09:15 - 10:00   WiML Symposium Registration

10:00 - 10:15   Introduction & Opening Remarks 

10:15 - 10:40  Talk1: "Knowing When to Help: Lessons from Egocentric AI" - Angela Yao (National University of Singapore)

10:40 - 11:05  Talk2 : "From Biomolecular Prediction Models to Molecular Discovery Systems" - Meghana Kshirsagar (Calico Life Sciences (Alphabet))

11:05 - 11:30   Talk3: "Beyond Foundation Models: Alignment, Hallucination, Understanding, and Bias" - Hyunjung Shim (KAIST)

11:30 - 11:45  15min Short Break

11:45 - 12:30   Panel Discussion: "Career Transitions in ML",  Panel: Lenka Zdeborová (Associate Professor, EPFL), Niloofar Mireshghallah (Assistant professor at CMU), Zechun Liu (Staff Research Scientist, Meta), Haiyan Yin (Senior Researcher, Centre for Frontier AI Research). Moderator: Kimberly Ferguson-Walter.

12:40 - 13:10   Parallel Breakout Q&A with the Speakers

13:30 - 14:30  Lunch and Mentor & Sponsor Roundtables

14:30 - 15:15  Panel Discussion: "What Does Research Look Like in the Presence of AI Tools?", Panel: Giorgia Ramponi (Assistant Professor, University of Zurich), Hwaran Lee (Assistant Professor, Sogang University), Verena Rieser (Senior Staff Research Scientist, DeepMind), Danica Sutherland (Associate Professor, University of British Columbia). Moderator: Zeynep Akata (Professor, Technical University of Munich)

15:15 - 15:25   WiML President Remarks

19:00 - 21:00 Poster Session (HALL A)