About

Recent advances in LLMs, foundation models, and AI agents have rapidly expanded the role of AI in science. These systems are now being used to read literature, generate hypotheses, write and execute code, design molecules and experiments, interact with simulators, and assist in scientific reasoning. As AI systems become increasingly embedded in scientific workflows, the key question is no longer only what can they do, but how should we build and use them reliably for scientific discovery.

The AI Scientist Summer Workshop brings together researchers across AI and science to discuss the emerging vision of AI systems as scientific collaborators. We aim to examine both the opportunities and limitations of current models, and to ask what scientific problems are best suited for AI agents and foundation models.

— Central themes

Reliability & verification

Producing scientific outputs that are trustworthy and independently checkable.

Evaluation & reproducibility

Benchmarks and protocols for assessing scientific reasoning and reproducing results.

Closed-loop discovery systems

Hypothesis generation, experimental design, and closed-loop autonomous experimentation.

Foundation models for science

Models for molecules, sequences, simulations, and multi-modal scientific data.

Human–AI collaboration

How scientists and AI systems divide work, build trust, and reason together.

Scientific applications

Domains where AI agents and foundation models drive new discovery — biology, chemistry, materials, physics, and beyond.

Confirmed speakers
Marinka Zitnik
Harvard Medical School
Yuanqi Du
Microsoft Research
Nathan Frey
Anthropic
Schedule
08:00 – 09:00
Registration
09:00 – 09:10
OpenOpening remarks
09:10 – 09:40
Invited TalkNathan FreyAnthropicTeaching AI Scientific Taste and Judgement
09:40 – 10:10
Invited TalkVivek NatarajanGoogle DeepMindAdvancing Science and Medicine with Collaborative AI Agents
10:10 – 10:20
Contributed TalkAccurate Simulation and LLM-Enabled Orchestration for Fault-Tolerant Programmable Cloud Laboratories
10:20 – 10:40
BreakCoffee break
10:40 – 11:10
Invited TalkYuanqi DuMicrosoft ResearchTowards Generalist Agents for Accelerating Scientific Discovery
11:10 – 11:40
Invited TalkMarkus BuehlerMITAdaptive Swarms Across Scales
11:40 – 11:50
Contributed TalkEvaluating & The Evaluators of Automated Research Systems
11:50 – 13:20
Lunch, poster & social
13:20 – 13:50
Invited TalkMarinka ZitnikHarvard Medical SchoolEmpowering biomedical discovery with AI scientists
13:50 – 14:20
Invited TalkRafael Gómez-BombarelliMIT, Lila SciencesToward a Shared Representation of Matter: Alignment, Scaling, and the Path to Scientific Superintelligence
14:20 – 14:30
Contributed TalkBenchmarking AI Agents for Addressing Scientific Challenges Across Scales
14:30 – 14:50
BreakCoffee break
14:50 – 15:20
Invited TalkBodhisattwa MajumderAI2Intriguing Data-driven Speculations with AI on the Possibilities in Science
15:20 – 15:50
Invited TalkMichael BrennerHarvard, Google
15:50 – 16:20
Invited TalkPaul LiangMITSelf-Evolving AI for Open-Ended Discovery
16:20 – 16:30
Contributed TalkPaperena: An Environment for Continual Evaluation and Improvement of AI Scientists
16:30 – 16:40
CloseClosing remarks
16:40 – 18:00
Poster session & social
Registration

The workshop is in person, with seats limited to 100 attendees. Register through the form below to attend.

Contributed talks & posters: If you would like to present a contributed talk or poster, please submit your proposal directly through the registration form. There is no separate submission portal.

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Organizers
Ada Fang
Harvard University
Wengong Jin
Northeastern University
Yuanqi Du
Microsoft Research
Student helpers
Yikun Zhang
Northeastern University
Xiwei Cheng
Northeastern University
Botao Yu
Ohio State University
Yasha Ektefaie
Broad Institute