Agenda
The Summit takes place at the Georgia Tech Historic Academy of Medicine Building, Monday December 7 to Wednesday December 9, 2026.
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Wednesday December 9, 2026
Wednesday December 9th is devoted to the Doctoral Consortium. The Doctoral Consortium is a closed-door event reserved for doctoral participants, mentors, and other invited guests. Doctoral consortium participants will present their work during the poster session on Monday.
Monday December 7, 2026
Sessions and times: TBD
Monday December 7, 2026 (continued)
Sessions and times: TBD
We encourage (and will facilitate) participants to form birds-of-a-feather working groups to network over lunch together.
At 4pm, the Atlanta Interdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence (AIAI) Network will hold their Fall 2026 Kickoff event on Emory Campus. We hope you will join us for that. See the AIAI website for details.
Speaker Session Format
Each speaker session will feature 2-3 10-minute talks designed to raise questions and provoke discussion. After the talks, the speakers will form a panel, led by the session chair during which time audience questions will also be fielded.
Poster Presentations
The Poster Session is Monday December 7th at 2:30-3:30pm.
| Authors | Title |
|---|---|
| Alice Oh (KAIST) | “Multiple languages and cultures: from challenges to solutions for LLMs” |
| Upol Ehsan (Northeastern University) | “The Algorithmic Imprint” |
| Yijin Ni, Xiaoming Huo (Georgia Tech) | “An Analytical Framework to Precisely Characterize the Accuracy-Fairness Trade-off in Fair Representation Learning” |
| Angel Hwang (University of Southern California) | “Advancing Human Subjects Research to Advance Human-Centered AI: Repurposing Behavioral Experimentation as Driver of Responsible AI Design” |
| Sanaz Ahmadzadeh Siyahrood and Michael Hoffmann (Georgia Tech) | “User-Engaged Responsible AI Design: A Method” |
| Sina Rismanchian, Peter Liu, and Shayan Doroudi (University of California, Irvine) | “The Role of Intellectual Virtues in the Age of Generative AI” |
| Juba Ziana (Georgia Tech) | “How do Humans Respond to High-Stake AI-Driven Decision-Making? On Fairness and Societal Impact” |
| DeBrae Kennedy-Mayo and Jake Gord (Georgia Tech) | “Beyond Democracy?: AI and the Rule of Law, Separation of Powers, and Individual Rights” |
| Steven Luo and Camille Crittenden (University of California, Berkeley) | “Inclusive, Interdisciplinary, and Scalable Models for Building University-Centered Responsible AI Communities” |
| Samir Passi and Shipi Dhanorkar (Microsoft) | “The Human Oversight of Agentic Systems Is Currently Near Impossible, but It Does Not Have to Stay That Way” |
| Desiree B. Junfijiah | “AI Catastrophic Risk and the Politics of Disposability: What We Owe Beyond the Margins” |
| Neil Gaikwad (University of North Carolina) | “Public Interest AI: The Democracy-Performance Paradox” |
| Zeyu Yan (University of Maryland) | “Local Circular Electronics Lifecycle Empowered by Sustainable Computational Fabrication Techniques” |
| Anna Kawakami and Jordan Taylor (CMU) | “AI Failure Loops in the Devalued Workplace: The Confluence of Overconfidence in AI & Underconfidence in Worker Expertise” |
| Doctoral Consortium Posters | Title |
|---|---|
| Charlotte Li (Northwestern) | “Towards Ecologically Valid LLM Benchmarks: Understanding and Designing Domain-Centered Evaluations for Journalism Practitioners” |
| Yasmine Belghith (Georgia Tech) | “Productive Failure-based AI Literacy Escape Room (ProFAILER): Exploring productive failure and gamification to foster AI literacy” |
| Aman Khullar (Georgia Tech) | “Social Evaluations of Generative AI: Towards a Participatory Impact Evaluation Framework for GenAI-Based Systems” |
| Anna Kawakami (CMU) | “Designing Positive AI Futures for Socially Complex Work With and For Workers” |
| Amal Alabdulkarim (Georgia Tech) | “Temporality in Sequential Explainable AI” |
| Ali Shirali (UC Berkeley) | “Towards A Bottom-Up Approach to Responsible AI” |
| Kartik Sharma (Georgia Tech) | “Intention in tension: Towards robust and controllable machine learning” |
| Shi Ding (Georgia Tech) | “Rethinking AI Benchmark Evaluation with the TEACH-AI Framework” |
| Jocelyn Shen (MIT) | “Human AI Interaction for Empathic Communication and Relational Integrity” |
| Charles Nimo (Georgia Tech) | “Africa Health Check: Probing Cultural Bias in Medical LLMs” |
| Jordan Taylor (CMU) | “Un-Straightening Generative AI: How Queer Artists Surface and Challenge Model Normativity” |
| Kayla Evans (Georgia Tech) | “Active and Passive Decisions: How ethical choices are made (and missed) in NLP research settings” |
| Xingyu Li (Georgia Tech) | “Embodied, Informal Auditing as a Human-Centered Approach to Civic Engagement with Responsible Emotion AI” |
| Taneea S Agrawaal (Toronto) | “An Analytical Framework for Designing Usable, Place-based, and Equitable Climate Informatics” |
| Saloni Dash (University of Washington) | “Persona-Assigned Large Language Models Exhibit Human-Like Motivated Reasoning” |
| Eve Fleisig (UC Berkeley) | “Building Language Models that Serve Diverse User Distributions” |