Research in AI for Science and Engineering (RAISE) Workshop 2025

Date & Time: May 12, 2025 | 8:00 AM–5:00 PM

Location: Chevron Rooms (297–299), Zachry Engineering Education Complex

Organizer: Shuiwang Ji

Sponsor: Texas A&M Institute of Data Science, Office of Vice Chancellor for Research

Breakfast and Lunch will be served.

About the Workshop

As part of the RAISE Initiative, this workshop seeks to foster collaborations among researchers in foundational AI, science, and engineering and explore how AI can empower scientific discovery and facilitate the design of improved engineering systems, ranging from quantum, atomistic, to continuum and macroscopic systems. In this 2025 workshop, we focus on how foundation models and AI agents can be employed in science and engineering fields.

Agenda (Tentative)

Time	Speakers	Topics
8:00 – 8:45		Continental Breakfast
8:45 - 8:50	Shuiwang Ji	Introduction
8:50 – 9:00	TAMU Administrator	Remark
9:00 – 9:30	Tomer Galanti	Tutorial: Intro to Foundation Models
9:30 – 10:00	Yu Zhang	Tutorial: Foundation Models and Agents in NLP
10:00 – 10:30	Xiaofeng Qian & Shuiwang Ji	AI for Science and Engineering: An Overview
10:30 – 10:45		Break
10:45 – 11:15	Sharath Girimaji	AI for Turbulence Discovery and Modeling
11:15 – 12:15	Moderator: Raymundo Arróyave; Panelists: Andrew Jiang, Ibrahim Karaman, Bani Mallick, Siddharth Misra, Tianbao Yang	Panel: Foundation Models for Science and Engineering
12:15 – 1:15		Lunch
1:15 – 1:45	Cheng Zhang	Tutorial: Foundation Models and Agents in Vision
1:45 – 2:15	Siddharth Misra	AI in Energy and Environment
2:15 – 2:45	Jonathan Siegel	Mathematical Foundations of AI
2:45 – 3:00		Break
3:00 – 3:30	Cosmi Lin	AI for Semiconductor and Quantum Materials
3:30 – 4:00	Jiang Hu	AI for Chip Design
4:00 – 5:00	Moderator: James Caverlee; Panelists: Dileep Kalathil, Yang Liu, J.N. Reddy, Raymundo Arróyave	Panel: AI Agents for Science and Engineering
5:00 – 5:05	Shuiwang Ji	Summary and Outlook