AI4X 2027 · Bremen
Speakers
70+ speakers, all in person, worldwide experts.
Conference Chair
Conference Chair
Prof. Sir Konstantin Novoselov
President, Constructor University; Nobel Prize in Physics 2010
President of Constructor University; Director of the Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials, NUS; Nobel Prize in Physics 2010- Links
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2027 Confirmed Speakers
Invited speaker
Sergei V. Kalinin
University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Sergei V. Kalinin is a Weston Fulton chair professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. In 2022 – 2023, he has been a principal scientist at Amazon (moon shot factory). Before then, he spent 20 years at ORNL where he was corporate fellow and group leader at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences. His research focuses on the applications of ML/AI methods in materials synthesis, discovery, and optimization, automated experiment and autonomous imaging and characterization workflows in scanning transmission electron microscopy and scanning probes for physics discovery, atomic fabrication, as well as mesoscopic studies of electrochemical, ferroelectric, and transport phenomena. Sergei has co-authored >700 publications, with a total citation of ~66,000 and an h-index of ~128. He is a fellow of NAI, Academia Europaea, AAAS, RSC, MRS, APS, IoP, IEEE, Foresight Institute, and AVS; a recipient of the Feynmann Prize of Foresight Institute (2022), Blavatnik Award for Physical Sciences (2018), RMS medal for Scanning Probe Microscopy (2015), Burton medal of Microscopy Society of America (2010) and a number of other distinctions.
Invited speaker
Yang-Hui He
London Institute for Mathematical Sciences; University of Oxford
Fellow at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Royal Institution; Lecturer in mathematics at Merton College, University of Oxford, Visiting Professor at City St George's, University of London, and Chang-Jiang Chair at Nankai University
Plenary speaker
Kristin Persson
UC Berkeley
Kristin A. Persson is the Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a Senior Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She is the Director and founder of the Materials Project (materialsproject.org) which is a world-leading resource for materials data, design and the training of machine learning algorithms. She is an elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, the US National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences. She was named an Office of Science Distinguished Scientist Fellow in 2024. She holds several patents in the clean energy space and has co-authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications.
Invited speaker
Nicola Marzari
EPFL; NCCR MARVEL
Full Professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Director of NCCR MARVEL
Plenary speaker
Gábor Csányi
University of Cambridge
Professor Gábor Csányi FRS is a Hungarian-born scientist at the University of Cambridge and a Director of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research. He read mathematics in Cambridge as an undergraduate at St. John’s College and did his PhD work in physics at MIT. After postdoctoral research in the Cavendish Laboratory, he joined the faculty in the Department of Engineering at Cambridge. He won an F. W. Bessel award from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation. His work is in the field of computational chemistry, and is focused on developing algorithms to predict the properties of materials and molecules from first principles. He pioneered the application of machine learning to molecular modeling which lead to enormous gains in the efficiency of molecular dynamics simulation.
Plenary speaker
Gerbrand Ceder
UC Berkeley
Professor and Samsung Distinguished Chair in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Research at the University of California, Berkeley
Invited speaker
Alexandre Tkatchenko
University of Luxembourg
Full professor in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Luxembourg
Invited speaker
Xavier Bresson
NUS
Xavier Bresson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore (NUS). His research focuses on Graph Deep Learning, a new framework that combines graph theory and neural networks to tackle complex data domains. In 2017, he received the USD 2M NRF Fellowship, the largest individual grant in Singapore, to develop this new framework. He was also awarded several research grants in the U.S. and Hong Kong. He co-authored one of the most cited works in this domain (10th most cited paper at NeurIPS) and has significantly contributed to mature these emerging techniques. He has organized several conferences, workshops and tutorials on graph deep learning such as the 2022 conference on “Learning on Graphs”, the IPAM'23 workshops on "Learning and Emergence in Molecular Systems", the IPAM'23'21 workshops on "Deep Learning and Combinatorial Optimization", the MLSys'21 workshop on "Graph Neural Networks and Systems", the IPAM'19 and IPAM'18 workshops on "New Deep Learning Techniques", and the NeurIPS'17, CVPR'17 and SIAM'18 tutorials on "Geometric Deep Learning on Graphs and Manifolds". He has been a regular invited speaker at universities and companies to share his work. He has also been a speaker at the NeurIPS'22, KDD'21, AAAI'21 and ICML'20 workshops on "Graph Representation Learning", and the ICLR'20 workshop on "Deep Neural Models and Differential Equations". He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on Deep Learning and Graph Neural Networks since 2014.
Invited speaker
Yu Xie
Microsoft AI4Science Berlin
Senior Researcher at Microsoft AI4Science Berlin- Links
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Invited speaker
Valentine P. Ananikov
Moscow State University
Professor, Chemistry Department, Moscow State University; Head of Chemistry Section of Russian Academy of Sciences
Invited speaker
Dong-Ling Deng
Tsinghua University
Tenured Associate Professor at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS), Tsinghua University
Invited speaker
Artem Oganov
Skoltech
Artem R. Oganov is a crystallographer, chemist, and materials scientist, widely recognized for pioneering the use of artificial intelligence and evolutionary algorithms in the discovery of new materials. He is a Distinguished Professor at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) in Moscow, where he heads the Material Discovery Laboratory. Since 2026 he is also a Chief Scientific Officer of Sber University. Professor Oganov is the creator of the USPEX (Universal Structure Predictor: Evolutionary Xtallography) method, a revolutionary computational approach that combines evolutionary algorithms with quantum mechanics to predict crystal structures. This breakthrough has fundamentally transformed the field, enabling scientists to predict stable compounds and their properties under extreme conditions such as deep within the Earth or on other planets - before they are synthesized in the laboratory.His research sits at the intersection of computer science, physics, and chemistry. He has made significant contributions to the discovery of novel superconductors, superhard materials, and exotic states of matter. His work has been recognized with numerous prestigious awards, the most recent of which - the International Science and Technology award of China, - was given to him by Chairman Xi Jinping in 2026.
Oganov is actively engaged in popular science activities and is a proud father of 4 children.
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Plenary speaker
Klaus Robert Müller
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Invited speaker
Sergei Gukov
John D. MacArthur Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, California Institute of Technology
Director, Merkin Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics; Executive Director, American Institute of Mathematics; John D. MacArthur Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, California Institute of Technology- Links
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Invited speaker
Boris Kozinsky
Harvard University, USA
Harvard University, USA
Invited speaker
Andrey Ustyuzhanin
Constructor University & I-FIM, NUS
Constructor University & I-FIM, NUS- Links
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Invited speaker
Nenad Filipović
Full Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac
Full Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Kragujevac
Invited speaker
Stephan Roche
ICREA and Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
ICREA and Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology- Links
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Sašo Džeroski
Head of the Department of Knowledge Technologies at the Jožef Stefan Institute (Ljubljana)
Head of the Department of Knowledge Technologies at the Jožef Stefan Institute (Ljubljana)