Schedule

Day 1

February 20, 2025

8:00am - 8:30am 

Registration 

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

Atkinson Hall Lobby

8:30am - 9:00am 

Welcome & Opening Remarks

Pradeep K. Khosla
Chancellor of UC San Diego

Albert P. Pisano
Dean of Jacobs School of Engineering & Special Adviser to the Chancellor

Sorin Lerner

Department Chair of Computer Science & Engineering

Atkinson Hall Auditorium

Session 1:  Frontier
Chair:  Zhuowen Tu

9:00am - 10:00am 

Atkinson Hall Auditorium

10:00am - 10:40am 

Atkinson Hall Auditorium

10:40am - 11:00am 

Coffee Break (20 min)

Atkinson Hall Lobby

11:00am - 12:00pm 

Atkinson Hall Auditorium

Poster Madness Session
Chair:  Pengtao Xie

12:00pm - 2:00pm 

Poster Madness Session

Atkinson Hall Lobby

12:30pm - 2:00pm 

Poster Madness Session (continued)
LUNCH

Atkinson Hall Courtyard 

Session 2:  Science
Chair:  Rose Yu

2:00pm - 3:00pm 

Atkinson Hall Auditorium

3:00pm - 3:40pm 

Atkinson Hall Auditorium

3:40pm - 4:00pm 

Coffee Break (20 min)

Atkinson Hall Lobby

4:00pm - 5:00pm 

Atkinson Hall Auditorium

5:00pm - 6:00pm 

Industry Fireside Chat
Moderator: Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Atkinson Hall Auditorium

Magaly Drant
VP, Developer Productivity
ServiceNow

An Chen
Vice President of Engineering
Qualcomm, Inc.

Shuichi Kurabayashi
Director of Cygames Research

Join us for an engaging one-hour fireside chat featuring experienced industry leaders who will share their insights on the evolving role of Generative AI across various sectors. Explore the challenges faced today and discover the exciting opportunities and future possibilities on the horizon. 

6:00pm - 7:00pm 

RECEPTION

Atkinson Hall Courtyard

END OF DAY 1 OF GENAI SUMMIT 2025

Day 2

February 21, 2025

8:00am - 8:45am 

Registration 

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

Atkinson Hall Lobby

8:45am - 9:00am 

Welcome & Introduction

Prithviraj Ammanabrolu
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

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Session 3:  Society
Chair:  Lily Weng

9:00am - 10:00am 

Atkinson Hall Auditorium

10:00am - 10:40am 

Atkinson Hall Auditorium

10:40am - 11:00am 

Coffee Break (20 min)

Atkinson Hall Lobby

11:00am - 12:00pm 

Atkinson Hall Auditorium

12:00pm - 2:00pm 

LUNCH 

Special Lunch Performance by Nao Tokui

Atkinson Hall Courtyard 

Session 4:  Creativity
Chair:  Shlomo Dubnov

2:00pm - 3:00pm 

Atkinson Hall Auditorium

3:00pm - 3:20pm 

Coffee Break (20 min)

Atkinson Hall Lobby

3:20pm - 4:20pm 

Atkinson Hall Auditorium

4:20pm - 5:00pm 

Panel Discussion
Moderator:  Prithviraj Ammanabrolu

Atkinson Hall Auditorium

Anna Huang
Assistant Professor,  
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Elad Hazan
Director of AI, Google
Professor, Princeton

Hao Su
Associate  Professor,
UC San Diego

Join us in this panel discussion to wrap up the UC San Diego GenAI Summit on the future implications of more prevalent AI in society.   What tasks should actually be automated? What does the future of education look like with AI? How far can Human-AI collaboration go in the face of economic pressures? What does the split on this look like between cognitive and embodied tasks?

5:00pm - 5:10pm 

Closing Remarks

Atkinson Hall Auditorium

END OF DAY 2 OF GENAI SUMMIT 2025