Machine Learning Day 2026

Event description

  • Academic events
You are invited to Arizona State University’s West Valley campus for the seventh annual Machine Learning Day!

This event offers a unique platform for scholars and professionals from Arizona and beyond to connect and engage with machine learning, AI, and robotics. Researchers and practitioners will share valuable insights, aiming to address the pressing technical and social challenges of 21st-century Arizona. Machine Learning Day seeks to inspire fresh ideas and foster new collaborations in ML and AI research, advancing the future of these transformative fields.

8:50 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. – Welcome and Opening Remarks  
 
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. – Morning Session 1
 
Rong Pan (ASU)
Kevin Lin (University of Arizona)
Spring Berman (ASU)
 
10:05 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.  Coffee/Poster Break  
 
10:20 a.m. – 11:20 a.m. Keynote Address 1
 
Melanie Moses (UNM)
 
11:20 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. – Morning Session 2
 
Heng Zhang (ASU)
Alice Schwarze (Utah AI Policy Office)
Selcuk Candan (ASU)
 
12:20 p.m. – 1:20 p.m. – LUNCH
 
1:20 p.m. – 2:20 p.m. Keynote Address 2
 
Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA)
 
2:20 p.m. – 2:35 p.m.  Coffee/Poster Break  
 
2:35 p.m. – 3:35 p.m. – Afternoon Session
 
Marco Janssen (ASU)
Yuzhou Chen (UC Riverside)
Yang Ba (ASU)
 
3:35 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. – Coffee/Poster Break
 
3:50 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. – Industry Panel Session
 
John Almasan (TIAA)
Will Dupree (Aptima)
Xiaomin Li (Microsoft)
Sandeep Voona (ServiceNow)

Event contact

Bogdan Gavrea, Yixuan He
Date

Friday, April 10, 2026



Time

8:40 am5:00 pm (MST)


Location

Academic and Office Building (AOB) 101

Cost

Free