AI Research Summit 2026

A one-day, invite-only research summit for researchers, engineers, and founders working in frontier AI.
Speakers
Philip S. Yu
UIC
Distinguished Professor, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow
Matthew Finlayson
USC / AI2
NLP researcher; formerly Meta Research and Allen Institute for AI
Niki Amini-Naieni
Oxford VGG
NeurIPS 2024; Qualcomm Fellow; Google DeepMind
Piyush Bagad
Oxford VGG
NeurIPS 2025; CVPR 2023
Seungjun Lee
NUS
CVPR 2026; ICLR 2026 Spotlight; NeurIPS 2025 Oral
Sookwan Han
Seoul National University
CVPR 2025; ECCV/ICCV Oral
Taishi Nakamura
Sakana AI
ICLR 2026 Oral; NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight
Hosted by AER Labs
AER = Accelerating Efficient & Effective Research