CMU ML/AI Seminar Series

Current Semester: Fall 2026

About the ML/AI Seminar Series

This is the home page for the ML/AI Seminar Series at the School of Computer Science of Carnegie Mellon University. The mailing list for upcoming ML/AI Seminar talk announcements is on the SCS mailman server and is available here. The faculty coordinator is Nihar Shah and the student coordinators are Abitha Thankaraj, Naveen Raman, and Selina Carter. Unless otherwise noted, the meetings are on Friday at 10:00 AM Eastern Time. There is no live streaming or recording, so please come in person! Thanks to MBZUAI/CMU Institute of Virtual and Programmable Cell for the sponsorship of this seminar.

Schedule - Fall 2026

Date & Time Location Speaker Affiliation Title
September 4, 2026
10:00 AM		 NSH 3305 Eric Xing MBZUAI/CMU The ladder of intelligence: Toward Reasoning, Planning, and Acting Beyond Book Intelligence
September 11, 2026
10:00 AM		 GHC 6115 Rico Angell NYU Estimating Tail Risks of Language Models
September 15, 2026 (Tuesday)
10:00 AM		 NSH 3305 Andrew Wilson NYU/Perplexity From Entropy to Epiplexity: Rethinking Information for Computationally Bounded Intelligence
September 18, 2026
10:00 AM		 NSH 3305 Vidya Muthukumar Georgia Tech
September 22, 2026 (Tuesday)
10:00 AM		 NSH 3305 Benjamin Recht University of California, Berkeley
September 25, 2026
--		 -- No talk (AI-SDM workshop) -- --
October 2, 2026
10:00 AM		 GHC 6115 Mahsa Bastankhah Princeton Learning abstract representations of the world through control
October 9, 2026
10:00 AM		 GHC 6115 TBD
October 16, 2026
--		 -- No talk (fall break) --
October 23, 2026
10:00 AM		 NSH 3305 Aviral Kumar CMU
October 30, 2026
10:00 AM		 GHC 6115 Emanuel Tewolde CMU
November 13, 2026
10:00 AM		 NSH 3305 Veit Elser Cornell
November 20, 2026
10:00 AM		 GHC 6115 Keegan Harris UC Berkeley
November 27, 2026
--		 -- No talk (Thanksgiving) --
December 4, 2026
10:00 AM		 NSH 3305 Selina Carter CMU

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