Cornell Tech Frontiers of AI Symposium

May 28–29, 2026

The Cornell Tech Frontiers of AI Symposium is a new annual event that brings together leading academic researchers around selected topics, with the goal of fostering collaboration, catalyzing new research directions, and disseminating knowledge. The symposium is organized by Yoav Artzi and Kilian Weinberger.

The symposium is preceded by the Cornell Tech Frontiers of AI Summit on May 27, 2026, a public-facing event that brings together leading researchers, practitioners, and entrepreneurs, featuring research talks, startup spotlights, and panels.

Due to limited space, attendance is by invitation only.

Speakers

May 28: NextGen AI Models

Yoav Artzi (Cornell) Surbhi Goel (UPenn) Tatsunori Hashimoto (Stanford) John Langford (MSR) Sewon Min (Berkeley) Aditi Raghunathan (CMU) Carl Vondrick (Columbia) Sherry Yang (NYU)

May 29: AI Reasoning and Scientific Discoveries

Kyunghyun Cho (NYU) Berthy Feng (MIT) Peter Frazier (Cornell) Jacob Gardner (UPenn) Shirley Ho (Flatiron Institute) Volodymyr Kuleshov (Cornell) Fei Sha (Meta) Yisong Yue (Caltech)

More details on the schedule are coming soon.