News & Events

News, updates, and upcoming events from AI-MI highlighting research advances, partnerships, and people accelerating AI-driven materials discovery for energy, sustainability, and quantum technologies.

Leslie Schoop Tapped for Leadership Role at AI-MI

Professor of Chemistry Leslie Schoop will hold a leadership role in a new U.S. National Science Foundation Artificial Intelligence Materials Institute (NSF AI-MI) scheduled to open this fall at Cornell University, marking a major investment in AI-driven materials discovery by the federal government.

CCNY joins Cornell to Accelerate AI Development

Zhigang Zhu, the Herbert G. Kayser Professor of Computer Science in The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, is a co-principal investigator for a new National Artificial Intelligence Materials Institute.

Upcoming Events

AI-MI Seminar Series: Sharon Li, Thursday, November 12, 2026

AI-MI Seminar Series: Sharon Li (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Reliability Along the Way: Progress and Failure Signals in AI Agents — AI systems are rapidly evolving from models that generate responses to agents that execute long-horizon workflows, interact with tools and environments, and take increasingly consequential actions. This shift changes the nature of the reliability problem.

AI-MI Fest

Cornell Tech

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A day of bold ideas, sharp debate and new collaborations at the frontier of AI and materials science, at Cornell Tech in New York City.