Overview
Hosted at the John Hancock Center from June 22–June 26, the goal of the program is to introduce a new generation of diverse, interdisciplinary graduate students and postdocs to the emerging field of AI+Science. We also hope this program can build community across institutions and spur new research directions focused on AI-enabled scientific discovery across the physical and biological sciences.
The program is organized by the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Fellowship program at the University of Chicago and the University of Chicago Data Science Institute. The AI + Science Summer School is co-hosted by the National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology (NITMB) and SkAI Institute at the John Hancock Center in downtown Chicago. Applications are due April 22.
View tentative agenda here.
Date & Location
- June 22–June 26, 2026
- John Hancock Center
- 172 E Chestnut St, Chicago, Illinois
Apply to the 2026 AI + Science Summer School here
Contact Information: Victoria Flores (vflores@uchicago.edu)
Speakers
Jonathan Weare
Pritzker AI+Science Visiting Scholar
Bingqing Cheng
Assistant Professor, UC, Berkeley
Greg Shakhnarovich
Professor, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Earl Bellinger
Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Yale University
Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro
Research Scientist of Cosmology, Simons Foundation; Visiting Research Scholar at Princeton University
Ramon Nogueira
Assistant Professor in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, University of Chicago
Philippe Rigollet
Professor of Mathematics, MIT
Emma Alexander
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University
Rose Cersonsky
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Niall Mangan
Assistant Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University