Schedule
📌 All posters will be displayed in Hall A on Sat, Jul 11 (IDs: **310–317, 400–416, 500–516, 600–601). Full poster details (titles, authors) are available in this document.**
This one-day workshop runs on Sat, Jul 11, 2026 • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM KST in Hall C and features five invited talks, two blocks of contributed talks (8 total), two dataset/AI scientist highlight sessions, two poster sessions (60 min each), and a panel discussion. Events marked 🤝 emphasize community building. Times are approximate and listed in the KST (UTC+9) timezone. This is a hybrid event — virtual page: https://icml.cc/virtual/2026/workshop/54099
| Time | Event | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 08:00–08:05 | Opening Remarks | Organizing Team |
| 08:05–08:35 | Invited Talk · AI x General Science | Peter Clark (AI2) |
| 08:35–09:05 | Invited Talk · AI x Science | Ramine Tinati (Google DeepMind AI Impact Accelerator) |
| 09:05–09:10 | 🎤 DESRES Sponsor Talk | DESRES |
| 09:10–09:20 | ☕ Coffee Break | All attendees |
| 09:20–09:50 | Invited Talk · AI x Drug/Chemistry | Wengong Jin (Northwestern University) |
| 09:50–10:30 | Contributed Talks Block 1 (4 × 10 min) | 🏆 #340 FabScore: Fine-Grained Evaluation of Fabrications in Automated AI Research (Best Paper Award) #316 ARA: Agent-Native Research Artifacts 🏆 #303 Large Language Models as Generative Bayesian Policies (Best Paper Award) #300 NMR Elucidation as an Agentic Search Problem, Not a Modeling Problem 🏆 Best Paper Award (sponsored by Liner) |
| 10:30–10:50 | Dataset & AI Scientist Highlights Block 1 (20 min) | #142 OpenDiscoveryTrace: Process Traces for Evaluating AI Scientist Workflows #154 Open Electrolyte Databank: Unlocking Molecular-Mixture Intelligence for Battery Electrolyte Discovery through a Standardized, Multimodal Foundation |
| 10:50–11:50 | 🤝 Poster Session 1 (60 min) | All accepted papers & proposals — Hall A (IDs: 310–317, 400–416, 500–516, 600–601) |
| 11:50–12:50 | Lunch Break | All attendees |
| 12:50–13:20 | Invited Talk · AI x Sampling & Comp. Chemistry | Jonas Köhler (CuspAI) |
| 13:20–13:50 | Invited Talk · AI x Mathematics | Ray Jiang (Google DeepMind) |
| 13:50–14:30 | Contributed Talks Block 2 (4 × 10 min) | #26 Position: Correct Answer, Wrong Mechanism - When AI Scientists Defend General Claims Their Own Data Contradicts #284 ReviewArena: A Large-Scale Cross-Conference Dataset and Benchmark for LLM Peer Review #152 Propose, Critique, Falsify: Benchmarking Self-Verifying AI Scientists #341 U-Cast: A Surprisingly Simple and Efficient Frontier Probabilistic AI Weather Forecaster |
| 14:30–14:50 | Dataset & AI Scientist Highlights Block 2 (20 min) | #251 A Multimodal Literature Agent as Substrate for Autonomous Biology Research #281 Bruno: An AI Product Manager for Scientists |
| 14:50–15:05 | ☕ Coffee Break | All attendees |
| 15:05–15:55 | Panel – Benchmarking “Breakthroughs” in AI Scientist: Definitions and Trustworthiness (50 min) | Moderator: Mengdi Wang (Princeton); Panelists: Ben Miller (Meta FAIR), Chaok Seok (SNU), Moontae Lee (LG AI), Brian Cheung (UCSF/MIT), Julian Schrittwieser (Anthropic) |
| 15:55–16:00 | Closing Remarks & Awards 🏆 Best Poster Awards (sponsored by Trillion Labs) — winners announced on July 12: • #19 PaperDoctor: Evidence-Grounded and Actionable Feedback for Scientific Papers in Progress • #193 The Story is Not the Science: Execution-Grounded Evaluation of Mechanistic Interpretability Research |
Organizing Team |
| 16:00–17:00 | 🤝 Poster Session 2 (60 min) | All accepted papers & proposals — Hall A (IDs: 310–317, 400–416, 500–516, 600–601) 🗳️ Scan to vote for Best Poster:  Voting has now closed. |
The AI4Science @ ICML Afterparty, in partnership with DESRES, will take place on Saturday, July 11, 2026 • 6:00 PM – 11:30 PM KST. Priority access for workshop paper authors; registration link coming soon.