Speakers
Andrew Barto
Andrew Barto is an ACM Turing Award Laureate and one of the founders of reinforcement learning. His foundational work on learning from interaction, reward-driven adaptation, and agent-based intelligence underpins much of today's AI research across robotics, control, and decision-making systems.
Rodney Brooks
Rodney Brooks is a pioneering roboticist and AI researcher whose work on embodied intelligence and behavior-based robotics has shaped modern AI and robotics for over five decades. He bridged research and real-world deployment leading the development of globally deployed robot families including Roomba, PackBot, Baxter, Sawyer, and Carter.
Markus Gross
Markus Gross is a leading figure in computer graphics and visual computing, known for pioneering work that bridges academic research and large-scale industry innovation. Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich and Chief Scientist at The Walt Disney Studios, he has shaped the development of advanced visual effects, simulation, and AI-driven content creation technologies used in film and media.
Aaron Hertzmann
Aaron Hertzmann is a leading researcher at the intersection of artificial intelligence, computer graphics, and the visual arts. A scientist at Adobe Research, his work explores how machine learning can enable new forms of artistic creation and human–AI collaboration, with influential contributions to non-photorealistic rendering, generative models, and AI-assisted creative tools.
Yann LeCun
Yann LeCun is an ACM Turing Award Laureate and a pioneer of modern deep learning. His work has shaped convolutional networks and, more recently, predictive world-model architectures such as JEPA, offering a compelling vision for self-supervised learning and autonomous intelligence.
Amanda Randles
Amanda Randles is a winner of the ACM Prize in Computing and a leading researcher in AI-enabled biomedical modeling and computational science. Her work integrates large-scale simulation, data-driven methods, and high-performance computing to advance precision medicine and scientific discovery.