Kristen Grauman
University of Texas at Austin
Leads work on egocentric video understanding and retrieval at scale, with a focus on long-horizon grounding and efficient perception.Speakers
Mohit Bansal
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Researches multimodal language/vision agents, grounded reasoning, and controllable generation for real-world tasks.
Dan Roth
University of Pennsylvania / Oracle AI
Pioneer in structured, grounded reasoning and robust inference for language/vision systems deployed in real settings.
Scott Wen-Tau Yih
Meta
Research Scientist at Meta FAIR and affiliate professor at the University of Washington. His work spans NLP, ML, and information retrieval, including DPR and RAG, and he was named an ACL Fellow in 2024.
Sujith Ravi
Oracle
Vice President of GenAI at Oracle and former founder of SliceX AI, leading frontier models and agentic systems for enterprise reliability, safety, and large‑scale deployment.
Vijay Krishnan
Turing
Co-Founder and CTO of Turing, where he leads technical strategy for frontier AI systems across reasoning, coding, multimodality, and agentic workflows. His work focuses on scalable human-AI systems that advance practical and reliable intelligence.More to be announced
Leaders from Industry & Academia
Panel
From Retrieval to Action: What Should Agentic Vision Systems Verify?
Diverse perspectives across industry and academia.Workshop Organizers
Amit Agarwal
Oracle AI
Builds agentic vision systems and retrieval pipelines with grounded evidence and data enrichment at scale.
Vivek Gupta
Arizona State University
Researches heterogeneous retrieval over structured and unstructured sources, focusing on robust, grounded search.
Vivek Srikumar
University of Utah
Works on grounding, reliability, and structured prediction for language/vision systems.
Tao Sheng
Oracle AI
Focuses on agentic planning, tool use, and multimodal system integration for production deployments.
Alice Oh
KAIST
Leads work on multilingual attribution, grounding, and socially responsible AI across modalities.
Sara Hooker
Adaption Labs
Researches efficient and responsible ML (distillation, compression) to make large models deployable.
Jyotika Singh
Oracle AI
Works on agentic memory, data quality, and human-in-the-loop interaction for grounded systems.
Hitesh Patel
Oracle AI
Focuses on multilingual and multimodal responsible AI with grounded retrieval and safety.Program Committee
Karan Dua
Expertise in scaling multimodal data pipelines and synthetic generation for generative model training. Advances the field through the design of calibrated metrics and comprehensive benchmarking for generative AI.
Hansa Meghwani
Holds an MSc from LJMU, UK. Specializes in the architecture of enterprise-grade RAG and agentic workflows with a focus on attribution. Expertise spans the rigorous evaluation of multilingual LLMs and VLMs.
Meizhu Liu
Holds a PhD from the University of Florida. Specializes in the development of multimodal retrieval architectures and generative tools for image editing. Over 70+ publications in top-tier conferences.
Michael Avendi
Holds a PhD from UC Irvine. Focuses on generative AI, vision-language-action models, and robotics learning to bridge perception and physical autonomy.
Matthew Rowe
Researches multimodal and hybrid search with a focus on enterprise-scale RAG. Specializes in architecting retrieval systems for high-throughput production deployments.
Yassi Abbasi
Holds a PhD from USC. Specializes in multimodal AI with an emphasis on image-text representation learning, generative modeling, and the design of robust evaluation metrics.
Peerat Limkonchotiwat
Research Fellow at AI Singapore, NUS. Leads SEA-LION, SEA-HELM, and SEA-Guard; collaborates on LLM, multimodal, safety, and dataset research. Contributor to SEACrowd and SEA-VL; invited researcher at Chulalongkorn University and SIGSEA advisory board member.
Taki Hasan
PhD candidate at Hanyang University, South Korea. Research focuses on trustworthy AI, including efficient test-time adaptation of vision-language and multimodal models for handling distribution shifts.
Praneet Pabolu
Holds a Master’s from Cornell and leads foundation model development at Splunk, focusing on representation learning and generative reasoning for complex environments.
Dr. Pao-Ann Hsiung
Professor of Computer Science and Dean of the College of Engineering. His work spans AI, IoT, and smart city applications, and he previously led smart city initiatives in Chiayi City that earned international recognition.
Bronson Bakunga
Ugandan ML engineer, NLP researcher, and co-founder of Crane AI Labs. He builds compact offline-first language models for low-power devices to improve education access across Sub-Saharan Africa.Stay connected
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