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AI4AI Seminar Series
The AI4AI seminar series will occur on the second Friday of each month this fall.
The AI4AI Seminar Series is part of the Assured Integrity for AI-Based Software (AI4AI) initiative led by Cornell faculty by Alexandra Silva and Vitaly Shmatikov. The series brings together researchers and practitioners to discuss emerging challenges and advances in AI security, assurance, and trustworthy AI systems.
Location: Computing and Information Science Building room 350, Ithaca Campus
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The AI4AI seminar series will occur on the second Friday of each month this fall.
Date: September 11, 2026
Time: 3-4 p.m.
Speaker: Guy Amir, postdoctoral researcher, Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin
Title: Verifiable Fault Tolerance in AI Training
Date: October 9, 2026
Time: 3-4 p.m.
Speaker: Stefan Zetzsche, Applied Scientist, Automated Reasoning Group, Amazon Web Services
Title: Dogwood: Runtime Verification for AI Agents
Date: November 13, 2026
Time: 3-4 p.m.
Speaker: TBD
Title: TBD
Date: December 11, 2026
Time: 3-4 p.m.
Speaker: TBD
Title: TBD
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Experts discussed the good, the bad and the unknown ways that GenAI is transforming science at the Assessing and Imagining the Impact of Generative AI on Science Symposium.
AI turns electron microscopy into materials insights in minutes
An autonomous artificial intelligence platform developed at Cornell streamlines materials research by quickly identifying key features in a microscopy image.
Cornell Tech partners with Mastercard to advance AI governance standards
Cornell Tech has launched a research collaboration with Mastercard to advance methods for evaluating and auditing generative artificial intelligence systems, in an effort to maximize their benefits.
CAROW Announces AI and Work Grant Recipients
The ILR School’s Center for Applied Research on Work (CAROW) recently awarded three seed grants for new research that addresses questions around the intersection of AI and organizations, employment and work.
AI tools show promise for diagnosing advanced heart failure
The study offers the prospect of better care for many thousands of patients who may be overlooked due to the difficulty of diagnosing their condition.
Students pitch AI-inspired solutions at Cornell Health Hackathon
More than 100 students from across Cornell campuses and 17 other universities gathered March 6-8 in New York City for an AI hackathon.
AI on deck: assessing impact of MLB’s new ball-strike system
Major League Baseball is instituting a major change this season, and it has inspired Cornell researchers to study how stakeholders are integrating the Automated Ball-Strike System, or ABS, into baseball’s sacred gameplay.
Testing large language models on scientific literature
Cornell physicists and Google researchers engaged a panel of 12 human experts to test the ability of six LLM systems to understand scientific literature at the level of a specialist.
Winning digital ag idea targets killer ants
The Digital Ag hackathon, sponsored by the Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture and powered by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, brought 116 students to Atkinson Hall for the weekend of Feb. 27-March 1.
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