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MIT-IBM
Watson AI Lab
Member Day
April 8, 2025
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
314 Main St, Cambridge, MA 02142


MIT-IBM
Watson AI Lab
Member Day
April 8, 2025
MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
314 Main St, Cambridge, MA 02142

About
Established with a $240m investment from IBM, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab is the most significant academic + corporate partnership in AI research. The MIT-IBM Membership Program invites select IBM partners to join the Lab by co-investing in specific research projects of interest.
Once a year, we invite all our industry partners to visit our Lab together as a group. This year’s Member Day promises to be particularly exciting!
Agenda
Event | Description | Start Time | End Time |
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Arrival / Check-in / Breakfast | Before the official start of Member Day, guests are invited to arrive early for a little breakfast and networking. | 8:00am | 9:00am |
Directors’ Address | Aude Oliva and David Cox will welcome all visitors and begin the day with some observations about the incredible progress and pace of change in the field or artificial intelligence and how it is impacting AI research. | 9:00am | 10:00am |
IBM Presents… | Through a series of short presentations from IBM Research principal investigators, visitors will learn about the latest research directions at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and the expanded work from IBM’s Data and Model Factory. | 10:00am | 12:00pm |
MIT-IBM Advisory Board / Lunch | For those visitors who are part of the MIT-IBM Advisory Board, we’ll have a working lunch, and for all others, we’ll have separate lunch / networking session. | 12:00pm | 1:00pm |
Members Showcase | This year, the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab is reserving time for each member to share non-confidential information about their own AI development efforts and priorities. | 1:00pm | 3:00pm |
New Professors Showcase | The MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab is honored to be working with a few new MIT professors — rising stars in the field of AI research. Four of them will provide short presentations and will be available for Q&A from the MIT-IBM members. | 3:00pm | 5:00pm |
Student Demos / Reception | The day will conclude with a reception, including snacks, drinks, and demos from students working on MIT-IBM projects. | 5:00pm | 7:00pm |
Photos will be taken at this event.
Speakers
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David Cox is the VP for AI Models at IBM Research and the IBM Director of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab. Formerly a Harvard professor, he is a computational neuroscientist prioritizing the Lab’s work in neuro-symbolic AI and other key areas, while leading the Lab’s IBM team in Cambridge, MA.

Dr. Aude Oliva is the MIT director of the MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab, and director of strategic industry engagement in the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. She is a senior research scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), where she leads research in neuroscience, computer vision, and machine learning.

Gabriele Farina is interested in solid theoretical and algorithmic foundations for learning and computational decision-making under imperfect information, combining elements from game theory together with modern tools from machine learning, optimization, and statistics.

Tess Smidt’s research encompasses machine learning that incorporates physical and geometric constraints, with applications to materials design.

Chuchu Fan’s work lies at the intersection of control theory, machine learning, and formal methods, with a particular focus on safety in systems with nonlinear, high-dimensional, and difficult-to-model dynamics.