Senior Member Presentation Track

The Senior Member Presentation Track (SMPT) provides an opportunity for established researchers in the AI community to give a broad talk that (i) describes a vision for bridging AI communities; (ii) summarizes a well-developed research area; or (iii) presents promising ideas and visions for new research directions. These presentations should provide a big-picture view, in contrast to regular papers, which may focus on a specific contribution. Submissions include a proposal for a talk and a paper (in the AAAI format) covering the topic of the talk. Senior members of AI are researchers who are well-established in their research area.

Tracks with Accepted Papers

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Bridge Talks

New AI communities often emerge when two or more disciplines come together in order to explore new opportunities and perspectives; today both are plentiful. The purpose of a Bridge Talk is to describe an opportunity for cultivating sustained collaboration between two or more communities, directed towards a common goal.

“Enhancing Decision Making through the Integration of Large Language Models and Operations Research Optimization”
Segev Wasserkrug, Leonard Boussioux, Dick den Hertog, Farzaneh Mirzazadeh, Ş. İlker Birbil, Jannis Kurtz and Donato Maragno

“Trustworthy AI Meets Educational Assessment: Challenges and Opportunities”
Sheng Li

“Embodied AI for Smart Robotic Cells in Manufacturing Applications”
Satyandra K. Gupta

Summary Talks

Broad talks on a well-developed body of research or an important new research area. These are expected to include results obtained by researchers other than the speaker and should include a well-thought-out critical analysis of the state-of-the-art, with suggestions for future directions.

“What Do Machine Learning Researchers Mean by “Reproducible”?”
Edward Raff, Michel Benaroch, Sagar Samtani and Andrew Farris

“Things Machine Learning models know that they don’t know”
Salvatore Ruggieri and Andrea Pugnana

“Learning Hierarchical Task Knowledge for Planning”
Pat Langley

“Back to the Future of Integrated Robot Systems.”
Mohan Sridharan

“Why AI Is WEIRD and Should Not Be This Way: Towards AI For Everyone, With Everyone, By Everyone”
Rada Mihalcea, Oana Ignat, Longju Bai, Angana Borah, Luis Chiruzzo, Zhijing Jin, Claude Kwizera, Joan Nwatu, Soujanya Poria and Thamar Solorio

“Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robotics: A Survey of Real-World Successes”
Chen Tang, Ben Abbatematteo, Jiaheng Hu, Rohan Chandra, Roberto Martin-Martin and Peter Stone

Blue Sky Idea Talks

These presentations aim to present ideas and visions that will stimulate the research community to pursue new directions; for example, new problems, new application domains, or new methodologies that are likely to stimulate significant new research. The presenter should find the right arguments to convince the audience that the topic is promising and should relate the talk as much as possible to the existing literature.

“Towards Computational Foreseeability”
Sarit Kraus, Kayla Boggess, Robert Kim, Bryan H. Choi and Lu Feng

“Incentives for Early Arrival”
Dengji Zhao

“A Vision for Reinventing Credible Elections with Artificial Intelligence”
Biplav Srivastava

“Towards Scientific Discovery with Large Generative Models”
Chandan Reddy and Parshin Shojaee

“Understanding Advertisements”
Chuanyi Li, Yi Feng and Vincent Ng

“Human-in-the-loop or AI-in-the-loop? Fraternal twins or chalk and cheese?”
Sriraam Natarajan, Saurabh Mathur, Sahil Sidheekh, Wolfgang Stammer and Kristian Kersting

For More Information

Inquiries concerning submissions and suggestions for the senior member track may be directed to the track cochairs at aaai25smchairs@aaai.org. All other inquiries should be directed to AAAI at aaai25@aaai.org.

Senior Member Track Cochairs

Joydeep Biswas (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Xuelong Li (TeleAI, China Telecom, China)