Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Fellows are fully engaged in several initiatives geared towards scholarly and networking enrichment at the University of Chicago. To this effect, they are organizing a yearly Schmidt AI in Science Speaker Series parading both local and external presenters who are expert researchers routinely using Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools and Machine Learning (ML) to design and conduct their research experiments in their specific field.
You can read more about the 2025 – 2026 Schmidt AI in Science Speaker Series here. The full list of speakers who presented during the Fall 2025 – Spring 2026 Series is as follows:
| October 7, 2025 | Jonathan Weare (NYU) – Data Science Institute, Room 105 |
| October 14, 2025 | Milo Lin (UT Southwestern) |
| October 21, 2025 | Ulugbek Kamilov (WashU) |
| October 28, 2025 | Jason MacLean (UChicago) – Data Science Institute, Room 105 |
| November 4, 2025 | Ching-Yao Lai (Stanford) |
| November 18, 2025. | Ethan Anderes, PhD (UC Davis) |
| December 2, 2025 | Pankaj Mehta (Boston University) – Data Science Institute, Room 105 |
| January 13, 2026 | Catherine Pfister, PhD (UChicago) |
| January 20, 2026 | Hongliang Xin (Virginia Tech) |
| January 27, 2026 | Chenhao Tan (UChicago) |
| February 3, 2026 | Nicholas Jackson (UIUC) |
| February 10, 2026 | Elena Villhauer (UChicago) |
| February 17, 2026 | Laura Gagliardi (UChicago) |
| February 24, 2026 | Rama Ranganathan (UChicago) |
| March 3, 2026 | Marco Biroli (UChicago) |
| March 31, 2026 | Madeleine Torcasso (UChicago) |
| April 7, 2026 | Laurence Perreault-Levasseur (Université de Montréal) |
| April 14, 2026 | Ramon Nogueira (UChicago) |
| April 21, 2026 | Emma Liu (UChicago) |
| April 28, 2026 | Jorge Jaramillo (UChicago) |
| May 5, 2026 | John Kitchin (CMU) |
| May 12, 2026 | Aditi Krishnapriyan (UC Berkeley) |
| May 19, 2026 | Christy Landes (UIUC) |
