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CORES Symposium 2026

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Symposium 2026: AI and Scientific Reproducibility

April 29, 2026, Stanford University

Simonyi Conference Center, CoDa Building, 4th Floor

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Agenda

12:00pm-1:00pmRegistration and Light Lunch
1:00pm-1:30pm Opening Remarks: James Landay, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, Faculty Director, & Russ Poldrack, CORES Faculty Director
1:30pm- 2:00pm Keynote: Yiqing Xu - Scaling Reproducibility: An AI-Assisted Workflow for Large-Scale Replication and Reanalysis
2:00pm-2:30pmKeynote: Steffen Bollmann - Automating Neuroimaging Workflows Using AI Coding Agents in the Neurodesk Environment
2:30pm-3:00pm 

Lightning Talks: 

  • Jiacheng Miao - Paper2Agent: Reimagining Research Papers As Interactive and Reliable AI Agents
  • Zijiao Chen - Brain Researcher: An Agentic System from Knowledge Graphs to Reproducible Neuroimaging
  • Ioana Ciuca - Cosmic Co-Discovery with AI: Where Do We Start?
3:00pm-3:15pmBreak
3:15pm-4:00pm

Is AI Trustworthy Enough?
Panel Discussion moderated by Associate Director, Maya Mathur

4:00pm-4:15pmRobert Rosenkranz (Rosenkranz Foundation) - Better Quality Control for Science:  AI Enhanced Peer Review
4:15pm-4:45pmKeynote: Ludwig Schmidt - Reproducibility in AI and AI for Reproducibility: ImageNetV2 and Terminal-Bench Science
4:45pm-5:00pmAwards Presented by Russ Poldrack 
5:00pm-6:00pmNetworking Reception