Event Schedule
Venue
BayLearn 2025 will be hosted at Santa Clara University and co-organized in partnership with the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Key Dates
- Abstract submission deadline (Deadline Extended): Tuesday, Aug 5th, 2025 at 11:59pm PDT
- Author notifications (Notification Date Updated): Friday, September 19th, 2025
- Registration Lottery opens: Registration is Closed: Join the Waitlist Here
- Registration Lottery closes: Tuesday, Sep 30, 2025.
- Registration Lottery results: All lottery results have been sent via e-mail.
- Symposium: Thursday, Oct 16th, 2025
Agenda of the Symposium
| Time | Session | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00am - 9:00am PDT | Check-in @ Santa Clara University, CA | - |
| 9:00am - 9:10am PDT | Welcome to BayLearn 2025 | Jerremy Holland and Other BayLearn Organizers |
| 9:10am - 9:30am PDT | Opening remarks by hosting organizations: Santa Clara University and UCSC | Julie Sullivan (President, Santa Clara University), Kendra Sharp (Dean, SCU), and Alexander Wolf (Dean, UCSC) |
| 9:30am - 10:15 am PDT | Keynote # 1 - The Surprising Victory of NLP: From History and Philosophy to Universal Transformers and Web Agents | Chris Manning |
| 10:15am - 10:30 am PDT | Submitted Talk - Context, Models and Prompt Optimization for Automated Hallucination Detection in LLM Output | Author(s) |
| 10:30am - 11:00am PDT | Break | - |
| 11:00am - 11:45am PDT | Keynote # 2 - Nemotron: Building an Open and Accelerated Future | Bryan Catanzaro |
| 11:45 am - 12:00 noon PDT | Submitted Talk - Empowering Microgrid Autonomy through Intelligent Agents | Author(s) |
| 12:00pm - 12:15pm PDT | Submitted Talk - Knowing You Don’t Know: Learning When to Continue Search in Multi-round RAG through Self-Practicing | Author(s) |
| 12:15pm - 1:30pm PDT | Lunch | - |
| 12:45pm - 1:30pm PDT | Lab Tour | - |
| 1:30pm - 2:15pm PDT | Panel Discussion: Agentic AI | Niloufar Salehi (moderator) |
| 2:15pm - 3:00pm PDT | Keynote # 3 - MLX: ML on Apple Silicon | Ronan Collobert |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm PDT | Break | - |
| 3:30pm - 4:00pm PDT | Invited Talk - Voice Agent in AGI Era: From Contextual Speech Synthesis to Native Audio Dialog | Mingqiu Wang |
| 4:00pm PDT - 4:15pm PDT | Submitted Talk - Emerging Aspects in ResNet Quantization with Adaptive Codebook Sizes | Author(s) |
| 4:15pm PDT - 4:30pm PDT | Submitted Talk - Dementor: Stealing the Soul of a Language Model | Author(s) |
| 4:35pm - 6:00 pm PDT | Poster Session + Reception | - |