Workshop Agenda

Rising Stars 2025 Workshop

November 11-12, 2025,Ā Stanford University, Simonyi Conference Center, CoDa Building, 4th Floor

November 11: Agenda

8:30am-9:30amCheck-In and Breakfast
9:30am-9:45amĀ 

Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:45am- 10:00amĀ 

Overview: Data Science at Stanford, UCSD, & UChicago

10:00am-11:00am

Faculty Advice: The Job SearchĀ 

11:00am-11:15amĀ Break
11:15am-12:15pm

Job Talk Showcase

12:15pm-1:15pmLunch Break
1:15pm-2:15pm

Concurrent Lightning Talks

Track 1: Deep Learning Theory & Optimization (Simonyi Conference Center)

  • Presenters:
    • Patricia Munoz Ewald
    • Eshaan Nichani
    • Bo Zhao
  • Session Chair: Yu-Xiang Wang

Concurrent Lightning Talks

Track 2: AI for Biology & Biomedicine (W415 Pre-function Room)

  • Presenters:
    • Siyu He
    • Xiran Liu
    • Aishwarya Mandyam
    • Yuhui Zhang
  • Session Chair: James Zou
2:15pm-2:30pmBreak
2:30pm-3:30pmMentor Meetings & Drop-In Office Hours
3:30pm-4:30pm

Concurrent Lightning Talks

Track 3: Reinforcement Learning & Game Theory (Simony Conference Center)

  • Presenters:
    • Benjamin Laufer
    • Andreas Haupt
    • Chao Qin
    • Gokul Swamy
  • Session Chair: Laura Gwilliams

Concurrent Lightning Talks

Track 4: Scientific Computing & AI for Science (W415 Pre-function Room)

  • Presenters:
    • Liangzu Peng
    • Yixuan Wang
    • Nathan Waniorek
  • Session Chair: Susan Clark
4:30pmClosing Remarks
4:35pm-6:00pmReception & Poster SessionĀ 

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November 12: Agenda

8:30am-9:30amBreakfast
9:30am-10:30amĀ 

Job Talk Showcase

10:30am- 11:15amĀ Mentor Meetings & Drop-In Office Hours
11:15am-11:30amBreak
11:30am-12:30pmĀ 

Concurrent Lightning Talks

Track 5: Causal Inference, Policy & Applied ML (Simonyi Conference Center)

  • Presenters:
    • Aparna Ananthasubramaniam
    • Yikun Zhang
    • Nanum Jeon
    • Yifan Liu
  • Session Chair: Stefan Wager

Concurrent Lightning Talks

Track 6: Computer Vision & Medical Imaging (W415 Pre-function Room)

  • Presenters:
    • Peihao Wang
    • Eric Sun
    • Shahira Abousamra
  • Session Chair: Alex Cloninger
12:30pm-1:30pmLunch Break
1:30pm-2:30pm

Panel: Rising Stars Alumni

2:30pm-2:45pmBreak
2:45pm-3:45pm

Concurrent Lightning Talks

Track 7: Trustworthy, Responsible, & Interpretable AI (Simonyi Conference Center)

  • Presenters:
    • Tahseen Rabbani
    • Anubrata Das
    • Jiacheng Liu
    • Ruihan Wu
  • Session Chair: Yuxin Chen

Concurrent Lightning Talks

Track 8: Language Models, NLP & Human-AI Interaction (W145 Pre-function Room)

  • Presenters:
    • Alisa Liu
    • Junsol Kim
    • Jacy Anthis
  • Session Chair: Roxana Daneshjou
3:45pm-4:00pmBreak
4:00pm-5:00pm

Panel: Beyond the Job Offer: Making the Most of Year 1

5:00pm-6:30pmClosing Reception (Kali Greek Stanford)