Event Schedule
Venue
BayLearn 2026 will be hosted at Santa Clara University (Santa Clara, CA) and co-organized with San José State University, UC Berkeley, and UC Santa Cruz.
Key Dates
- Updated Abstract submission deadline: Thu, Aug 6th, 2026 at 11:59pm PDT
- Author notifications: Mon, Sep 14th, 2026
- Registration Lottery is Closed.
- Symposium: Thu, Oct 15th, 2026
BayLearn 2026 Schedule
| Time (PDT) | Session | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 – 9:00 am | Check-in @ Santa Clara University, CA | |
| 9:00 – 9:10 am | Welcome to BayLearn 2026 | Jerremy Holland & Fellow Organizers |
| 9:10 – 9:30 am | Welcome to BayLearn 2026 |
Dean Kendra Sharp (SCU) Dean Roberto Manduchi (UCSC) tbd (UC Berkeley) Associate Dean Xiao Su (SJSU) |
| 9:30 – 10:15 am | Keynote #1 | Ion Stoica: Reality Is the Final Verifier: On Two Key Gaps in Agentic Software Engineering |
| 10:15 – 10:30 am | Oral Presentation 1 | Submission #46: Information-Theoretic Analysis of Vision Transformers: Preliminary Results |
| 10:30 – 11:00 am | Coffee Break | Coffee Service |
| 11:00 – 11:45 am | Keynote #2 | Andrew Ng: Talk Title Coming Soon |
| 11:45 am – 12:00 pm | Oral Presentation 2 | Submission #26: Neuro-symbolic Policy Iteration for Computer Agents |
| 12:00 – 12:15 pm | Oral Presentation 3 | Submission #56: PRISM: Predictive KV Cache Discovery for Agentic LLM Serving at Internet Scale |
| 12:15 – 1:30 pm | Lunch | Boxed lunches available |
| 12:45 – 1:30 pm | OPTIONAL: Guided AI/ML Research Lab Tours at SCU (meet at Locatelli main entrance if interested) | |
| 1:30 – 2:15 pm | Panel Discussion |
Topic: AI for Science Moderator: Niloufar Salehi. Panelists: Jure Leskovec (Professor at Stanford University); Siddharth Mishra-Sharma (MTS at Anthropic); Zhenghao Chen (VP of AI/ML at Insitro) |
| 2:15 – 3:00 pm | Keynote #3 | Azalia Mirhoseini: Talk Title Coming Soon |
| 3:00 – 3:30 pm | Coffee Break | Coffee Service |
| 3:30 – 3:45 pm | Oral Presentation 4 | Submission #62: Let Them Sleep: Recursive Self-Pruning Memory for Long-Horizon LLM Agents |
| 3:45 – 4:00 pm | Oral Presentation 5 | Submission #106: Drop the Act: Probe-Filtered RL for Faithful Chain-of-Thought Reasoning |
| 4:00 – 4:15 pm | Oral Presentation 6 | Submission #107: Blind Deference: A Diagnostic Benchmark and Vulnerability Index for Authority-Driven Sycophancy in LLMs |
| 4:15 – 4:30 pm | Oral Presentation 7 | Submission #120: Supervision-Efficient Robot Learning in Deployment |
| 4:30 pm | End of talks — everyone proceed to the reception and poster session | |
| 4:30 – 6:00 pm | Poster Session + Reception | All attendees (+ authors of accepted submissions invited to host/present a poster), reception & drinks |