Lunch Round Tables

Saturday, August 1, 2026  •  12:30–1:40 PM  •  Northwest Building, Basement B100

Come and enjoy our Lunch Round Tables, which are designed to provide an informal setting for networking and discussions on a variety of topics at the intersection of statistics and AI.

Round Tables and Designated Discussion Leaders

Round Table 1

Education (sponsored by MD Anderson)

Kathy Ensor (Rice University), Joe Blitzstein (Harvard University), Renu Nargund (MD Anderson)

Round Table 2

AI Agents and Benchmarks for Data-Driven Discovery

Eric Xing (MBZUAI & CMU), Mengdi Wang (Princeton University), Souhaib Ben Taieb (MBZUAI)

Round Table 3

Foundations and Methods at the Interface of AI and Statistics · Table A

Martin Wainwright (MIT), Linjun Zhang (Rutgers University), Mladen Kolar (MBZUAI)

Round Table 4

Foundations and Methods at the Interface of AI and Statistics · Table B

Misha Belkin (UC San Diego), Andrew Wilson (New York University)

Round Table 5

AI for Statistical Proofs

Rajarshi Mukherjee (Harvard University), Junwei Lu (Harvard University)

Round Table 6

AI × Statistics × Science and Society · Table A

Wenyi Wang (The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center), Qiang Sun (MBZUAI)

Round Table 7

AI × Statistics × Science and Society · Table B

Tracy Ke (Harvard University), Hongyu Zhao (Yale University)

Round Table 8

AI × Statistics × Science and Society · Table C

Bhramar Mukherjee (Yale University), Judy Wang (Rice University)

Round Table 9

AI-related NIH Funding

Theresa Kim (NIH), Jian Kang (University of Michigan)

Round Table 10

AI-related NSF Funding

Ellen Zegura (NSF & Georgia Tech), Edgar Dobriban (University of Pennsylvania)

Round Table 11

Genesis Mission, AI-related DOE Funding & Collaboration with National Laboratories

Stefan Wild (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Xihong Lin (Harvard University)

Round Table 12

AI in Industry and Partnership · Table A

Haoda Fu (Amgen), Xun Chen (AbbVie), Yihua Gu (AbbVie), Yuting Ma (Two Sigma)

Round Table 13

AI in Industry and Partnership · Table B

Jump Trading: Cait Daley, Sam Keller, Dieyi Chen, Qiang Ning, Rungang Han

Round Table 14

Journal Publications in the AI Age (JASA)

Hongtu Zhu (UNC Chapel Hill), Tianxi Cai (Harvard University)

Round Table 15

Journal Publications in the AI Age (AOAS)

Lexin Li (UC Berkeley)

Round Table 16

StatsUpAI Interest Group

Peter Song (University of Michigan), Tian Zheng (Columbia University)