November 20, 2025 | 12:15 pm – 1:00 pm Parallelizing “Inherently Sequential” Processes Xavier Gonzalez, Stanford University Location:Virtual Linkopens in a new tab/window Virtual Event Research Fellow Candidate Presentations
November 21, 2025 | 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm Training Natively Interactive Models Anne Wu, Cornell University Location:Virtual Linkopens in a new tab/window Virtual Event Research Fellow Candidate Presentations
November 21, 2025 | 1:45 pm – 2:30 pm Aspects of Similarity in Natural and Artificial Minds Raja Marjieh, Princeton University Location:Virtual Linkopens in a new tab/window Virtual Event Research Fellow Candidate Presentations
November 21, 2025 | 2:30 pm – 3:15 pm Generative Worlds for Spatial and Embodied Intelligence Jieneng Chen, Johns Hopkins University Location:Virtual Linkopens in a new tab/window Virtual Event Research Fellow Candidate Presentations
November 21, 2025 | 3:15 pm – 4:00 pm AI-Driven Scientific Discovery Yuanqi Du, Cornell University Location:Virtual Linkopens in a new tab/window Virtual Event Research Fellow Candidate Presentations
November 12 | 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm The Computational Power of Single Neurons: Dendrites as Architectural Primitives for Neural Networks Ido Aizenbud, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Location:Virtual Linkopens in a new tab/window Research Fellow Candidate Presentations
November 12 | 12:00 pm – 3:45 pm Research Fellow Candidate Presentations Research Fellow Candidate Presentations Presentations by Kempner Research Fellowship candidates, via Zoom. Presenter names and talk titles TBD. Location:Virtual Linkopens in a new tab/window Virtual Event Research Fellow Candidate Presentations
November 12 | 12:45 pm – 1:30 pm How Neural Networks Learn Features: Low-Degree Correlations and Collective Dynamics Yatin Dandi, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne Location:Virtual Linkopens in a new tab/window Research Fellow Candidate Presentations
November 12 | 1:30 pm – 2:15 pm Research Fellow Candidate Presentation (Talk title TBD) Jiecheng Lu, Georgia Institute of Technology Location:Virtual Linkopens in a new tab/window Research Fellow Candidate Presentations
November 12 | 2:15 pm – 3:00 pm Tracing Model Behavior Back to Training Data Sheng-Yu Wang, MIT CSAIL & Northeastern University Location:Virtual Linkopens in a new tab/window Research Fellow Candidate Presentations
November 12 | 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm Beyond worst-case algorithms for learning Gautam Chandrasekaran, University of Texas at Austin Location:Virtual Linkopens in a new tab/window Research Fellow Candidate Presentations
November 13 | 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm Physics for Artificial Intelligence: Locality, Correlations, Phases, and Universality Yifan Frank Zhang, Princeton University Location:Virtual Linkopens in a new tab/window Research Fellow Candidate Presentations
