Name: Adapting to Climate Uncertainty through AI-Enabled Microbial System Design
Start: 2026-12-08T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-12-10T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.

Learn more about the wide range of AI‑related workshops, symposia, and events happening across Cornell’s campuses.

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Upcoming Event Highlights

Cornell Unplugged

September 14 – September 20

Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.

Cornell Unplugged is a week-long campus wide initiative hosted by the Sustainable Computing Workgroup that encourages students, faculty and staff to reflect on how much time they spend connected to technology.

Global AI Seminar: Aliya Bhatia

September 15 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Gates 203 | Virtual via Zoom

Aliya Bhatia is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), where she works with the Free Expression Project.

CALS Innovation Day 2026

September 16

Stocking Hall

CALS Innovation Day 2026 highlights the people, partnerships, and investment pathways that turn research into impact. Join us for inspiring faculty stories, discussions with corporate and philanthropic leaders, and showcases of emerging discoveries and ventures that demonstrate how CALS faculty advances commercialization, strengthens industry engagement, and supports faculty and student entrepreneurship. Hosted by the CALS Research and Innovation Office (RIO), this annual, college-wide event supports the CALS Roadmap to 2050 strategic objective to transcend conventional boundaries with college-wide, transdisciplinary research and innovation programming.

Cornell at Climate Week NYC

September 20 – September 27

New York City

Cornell researchers return to New York City for Climate Week NYC 2026 from September 20-27, joining global leaders to advance bold, science-based solutions to pressing sustainability challenges.

AI and Accessibility Summit 2026

September 22 – September 23

Cornell Tech campus

The AI and Accessibility Summit is CATAI’s annual conference on accessibility — spanning research, identity, and policy. The goal is to bring together voices from within Cornell University (faculty, staff, students, and alumni) and to build lasting connections with organizations in and around New York City. The 2026 edition takes place on September 22 and 23, 2026 and runs over two full days. Day 1 is fully in person and open to everyone who registers, with keynotes, talks, panel conversations, and hands-on demos. Day 2 is a smaller, invite-only day built around case study discussions, alongside a handful of talks — a chance to […]

Global AI Seminar: How well do multimodal models align with diverse cultural expectations?

September 22 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Gates 203 | Virtual via Zoom

Aishwarya Agrawal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the University of Montreal. She is a Canada CIFAR AI Chair and a core academic member of Mila — Quebec AI Institute, and spends one day a week as a Research Scientist at Google Research.

Talent Acquisition and Employee Mobility

September 23 @ 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.

This CAHRScast session will explore how AI is being used in talent acquisition and employee mobility, including emerging applications, decision points, and implications for organizations and employees.

Ask the Statisticians: AI in Scientific Research

September 24 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Zoom

The capabilities of AI has dramatically increased over the past year. This session will provide a space to discuss innovative ways researchers across departments are integrating AI into their statistical workflows, as well as a space to discuss concerns about the best ways to maintain the scientific rigor and reproducibility in the process.

Global AI Seminar: Vyoma Raman

September 29 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Gates 203 | Virtual via Zoom

Vyoma Raman is a PhD student in Information Science at Cornell Tech / Cornell University.

Global AI Seminar: Exploring the Ethics of AI in Community-Engaged Learning (Session 1)

October 6 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Gates 203 | Virtual via Zoom

Amy Kuo Somchanhmavong is Associate Director of the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement. She has initiated, directed, and coordinated co-curricular and curricular-based community-engaged learning programs such as the Public Service Scholars Program, Public Achievement, and the Person-Centered Care Advocacy Team (PCAT). As a practitioner of the field, Amy has worked in community engagement for 15+ years, serving as a bridge builder for faculty and staff members with community-based organizations as well as nonprofit, nongovernmental, and grassroots projects. Melina Ivanchikova is an Associate Director at the Center for Teaching Innovation, Cornell University. At the heart of Melina Ivanchikova’s pedagogy is an […]

Global AI Seminar: Exploring the Ethics of AI in Community-Engaged Learning (Session 2)

October 13 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Gates 203 | Virtual via Zoom

Global AI Seminar: New Era of Human-AI Interactions

October 20 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Gates 203 | Virtual via Zoom

Kaitlyn Zhou is an assistant professor of information science and a senior research scientist at Together AI. Her research focuses on the dynamics of human interaction with language models (human-LM interaction), focusing on how generated language shapes human decision-making, reliance, and trust. Her contributions have been recognized at top-tier conferences in natural language processing and human computer interaction. She has received awards such as an NAACL Best Paper Runner-Up, an MIT EECS Rising Star, a Stanford graduate fellowship, and the College of Engineering Dean’s Medal. Her methods have been featured in high-profile news outlets like the New York Times and Wall […]

Virtual Healthcare in the Mainstream

October 21 @ 8:30 am – 4:00 pm

Griffis Faculty Club

Join us for this exclusive in-person event filled with presentations and panel discussions covering topics like: AI-powered clinical decision-making, Scaling virtual healthcare delivery, and Predictive analytics in real-world systems. PLUS: Built-in time for networking.

Talent Development

October 21 @ 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.

This CAHRScast session will examine how AI is influencing talent development, including the design, delivery, and personalization of learning and development experiences.

Global AI Seminar: Charvi Rastogi

October 27 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Gates 203 | Virtual via Zoom

Charvi Rastogi is a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind.

Global AI Seminar: Josh Blumenstock

November 3 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Gates 203 | Virtual via Zoom

Josh Blumenstock is a Chancellor’s Professor at the School of Information and the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he directs the Global Opportunity Lab.

Global AI Seminar: Jessica Ratcliff

November 10 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Gates 203 | Virtual via Zoom

Jessica Ratcliff is an Associate Professor in the Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University.

Talent Analytics and Workforce Planning

November 18 @ 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.

This CAHRScast session will consider the use of AI in talent analytics and workforce planning, including opportunities to strengthen insights, forecasting, and workforce decision-making.

Global AI Seminar: Vivek Seshadri

December 1 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Gates 203 | Virtual via Zoom

Vivek Seshadri is Co-Founder and CTO of Karya, and a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research India.

Adapting to Climate Uncertainty through AI-Enabled Microbial System Design

December 8 – December 10

Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.

This Thought Summit will bring together leaders from AI, data science, microbiology, materials science, agriculture, architecture, and design to define a new vision for AI-enabled engineering of microbial systems.

Ongoing Event Series and Colloquia

AI Brown Bag Series

Happens regularly Sage Hall.

This series provides an excellent opportunity to learn about and discuss ongoing work happening across Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.

AI Explorations

Every other Thursday at 2 p.m. ET

Explorations are the Cornell AI Innovation Hub’s signature learning events. Join us for biweekly sessions where Cornell staff and faculty can discover emerging AI tools, hear from practitioners, and discuss real applications in research and education. Sessions are virtual, free and open to the Cornell community.

AI for Science Seminar Series

Alternating Fridays, 2:30–3:30 p.m.

The AI for Science seminar brings together computational and scientific communities to explore advances and challenges in AI for scientific discovery. Details coming soon.

AI to Advance Medicine Dean’s Lecture Series

Learn more about the series at Weill Cornell Medicine.

AI@CVM Exchange

Monthly

This monthly series features two 15-minute AI Super-User Showcases highlighting real-world applications: from automating grant budgets, enhancing clinical workflows, to streamlining research projects, CVM AI Steering Committee updates, and an interactive fishbowl Q&A. Open to all CVM faculty and staff (hybrid format).

Artificial Intelligence Seminar

Fridays at 12:20 p.m. ET in Gates 310 and via zoom.

The Department of Computer Science presents a new lecture Fridays at 12:20 p.m. ET in Gates 310 and via zoom.

Bovay / CTI Seminar Series

Monthly

We invite instructors across disciplines to come together as a community of practice to build expertise around teaching in the age of generative AI.

CATAI Biweekly Seminar Series (Cornell Initiative for Assistive Technology and AI)

Alternate Thursdays, 10–11 a.m., virtually

This biweekly seminar series features talks and demos on assistive technology, accessibility, and AI. The meeting is held every alternate Thursday, 10–11 a.m., virtually.

Computer Science Colloquium

Thursday from 11:45 a.m. -12:45 p.m. in G01 Gates Hall and via Zoom.

Unless otherwise noted, events are every Thursday, starting on Thursday, August 27, through December 10, from 11:45 a.m. -12:45 p.m. in G01 Gates Hall and via Zoom.

Cornell Learning Machines Seminar

Semi-monthly

Semi-monthly seminar at the Cornell Tech campus in New York City focusing on machine learning, NLP, vision, and robotics.

Electrical and Computer Engineering Colloquium

View the Cornell Duffield Engineering ECE events calendar for upcoming events.

Global AI Seminars

Tuesdays from 2–3 p.m. in Gates Hall 203 and on Zoom

This weekly speaker series brings together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to examine how AI can be designed, evaluated, and governed in ways that are safe, culturally grounded, and globally equitable. Sessions take place Tuesdays from 2–3 p.m. in Gates Hall 203 and on Zoom.

Machine Learning In Medicine

Virtual lecture series (via Zoom) on machine learning in medicine, featuring extensive Q&A and panel discussions. Designed to reduce academia’s carbon footprint, accommodate leading scientists’ schedules, and maintain social distancing.

ORIE Graduate Colloquium

Lectures and seminars with Cornell Duffield Engineering faculty, visiting professors, and guests on operations research topics.

Robotics Seminar

Wednesdays from 1:25-2:40 p.m. in Gates 310

The Department of Computer Science presents a new lecture Wednesdays from 1:25-2:40 p.m. in Gates 310