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June 2025 Issue
Table of Contents:
- Wrap-Up: AIVO and ACTION at the ai+expo
- Partner Showcase at SAIL 2025
- AI Institute Education Contacts Posted on AIVO Website
- AI4Ed-Funded Summer Graduate Fellow Program
- Ed4AI: New SIG & Event Planning
- Call for Papers by July 15: ICICLE’s First International Workshop on Applications of HPC and AI in Agriculture (HARVEST 2025)
- Call for Abstracts by July 15: AI-SDM’s 2025 Workshop on Human-AI Complementarity for Decision Making
- How to Add Your Events to the AIVO Website
Wrap-Up: AIVO and ACTION at the ai+expo
AIVO and the NSF AI Institute for Agent-based Cyber Threat Intelligence and Operation (ACTION) represented the AI Institutes at the Special Competitive Studies Project – SCSP ai+expo, held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. June 2–4.
ACTION Program Manager Tim Robinson, Postdoc Researcher Cheng Xin (Rutgers University), and AIVO PI Steve Brown helped staff the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) booth at the event. The NSF booth had three representative focus areas – the Engines program, the SBIR program, and the National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes.
Visitors to the NSF booth varied from government officials, including U.S. Representative Don Beyer (Virginia), to AI-based product companies to high school and graduate students. Education was a common topic among those who visited the booth, including:
- Education about AI at all levels
- Training in the use of AI tools for workflow
- Domain-specific knowledge and applications of AI
There was great discussion about the educational offerings that all of the AI Institutes and their respective universities provide!
The ai+expo event serves as “a forum for industry, government, and academic research entities to exhibit some of the latest technological breakthroughs,” with AI leading the list of topics.
Partner Showcase at SAIL 2025
Save the date for the Summit for AI Institutes Leadership (SAIL) conference, October 21–23, 2025 in Reston, VA. Conference registration will be available in July. Stay tuned for more information and a link to the SAIL registration website.
You won’t want to miss this year’s SAIL. We’re featuring a new segment this year, the Partner Showcase, on October 22!
The Partner Showcase is an opportunity for Institute partners to be at the forefront of AI innovation – to connect with the vanguards of AI and witness trailblazing research.
Partners can:
- Meet with AI Institute leadership and other industry experts
- See current research results across all AI Institutes – witness the progress we’re making across science and society firsthand
- Talk with student researchers – meet the next generation of AI pioneers and leaders
- Speak at an interactive roundtable or volunteer as a keynote speaker
- Share an AI demo
Resources for inviting your partners to the Partner Showcase will be available in July.
Summit for AI Institutes Leadership (SAIL)
October 21–23, 2025
Hyatt Regency Reston
1800 Presidents Street, Reston, VA 20190
AI Institute Education Contacts Posted on AIVO Website
In support of the “Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth” Executive Order, AIVO has published the education contact for each AI Institute on the AIVO website.
The education contact is listed on each Institute’s detail page, found under the AI Institutes page, along with the press contact for each AI Institute.
If you need to change any of the information listed on your Institute’s page on the AIVO website, please contact us.
AI4Ed-Funded Summer Graduate Fellow Program
The AIVO AI Institute Summer Graduate Fellow Program is in full swing!
This inaugural 12-week program is the brainchild of the five AI Institutes focused on education (NSF iSAT, NSF AI-ALOE, NSF EngageAI, NSF AI4ExceptionalEd, and NSF INVITE), which form the AI for Education SIG. The fellows program was made possible through funding from Google.org for the AI4Ed program.
Each Institute nominated three graduate students or postdocs, and all 15 fellows are receiving supplemental stipends for working collaboratively with each other.
Matched in groups of three based on interest area, the fellows have been meeting regularly since May. Weekly sessions feature guest speakers, including NSF INVITE PI Chad Lane and PM Noah Schroeder so far, as well as presentations from the fellows on their respective AI Institutes.
The fellows are collaborating to advance AI in education research, their own research goals, and their Institute’s research goals. In their groups, they have proposed and defined their research and are now in the implementation phase. Advisors help the groups, particularly with aligning to goals that bridge all of the education Institutes. The research outputs will be varied, such as prototypes, tools, white papers, data, and publications, to name a few.
The fellowship culminates in an in-person symposium August 18–19, 2025 at the Illini Center in Chicago, IL. Look for more updates on the program in a future issue of AIVO News.
Ed4AI: New SIG & Event Planning
Ed4AI is the Google.org-funded program established to help all 27 AI Institutes improve education, outreach, and workforce development, both individually and collectively. The Ed4AI SIG was established to encompass the education efforts of all 27 institutes.
The Ed4AI SIG allows for all Institutes to connect, convene, and collaborate regarding education and training about AI. What needs to be taught about AI varies across the various disciplines of the AI Institutes as well as across the levels of learners needing to be reached, from K-12 to college, to the public and the workforce.
No single Institute can solve all these levels and domains, but by combining best practices and best material as well as collaborating for some events, we can more efficiently and effectively educate various stakeholders about AI.
The new SIG is already hard at work preparing a workshop for SAIL 2025!
Funding is available for Institutes that are interested in planning events to support Ed4AI goals, from both Google.org and the AIVO Workshops program. To apply for funding, complete the Workshops form, following the instructions at the top of the form.
Please contact AIVO with any questions about the form or process.
Call For Papers by July 15:
ICICLE’s First International Workshop on Applications of HPC and AI in Agriculture (HARVEST 2025)
The First International Workshop on Applications of HPC and AI in Agriculture (HARVEST 2025) will be held September 8–9, 2025, at the Catamaran Resort Hotel in San Diego, CA.
Happening in cooperation with the 54th International Conference on Parallel Processing (54th ICPP) and sponsored by the NSF AI Institute for Intelligent Cyberinfrastructure with Computational Learning in the Environment (NSF ICICLE), this workshop is geared toward researchers, practitioners, and developers who are interested in exploring the benefits high-performance computing (HPC) and AI can bring to agriculture.
The workshop brings together researchers and software/hardware designers from academia, industry, and national laboratories who are involved in designing HPC-powered, AI-enabled systems for agriculture and how it can be leveraged to improve efficiency, accuracy, and accessibility for end-users. Attendees will learn about the experiences of the members of this community, opportunities and challenges in designing HPC-powered AI-enabled systems for agriculture, and how these systems have empowered farmers. Learn more about HARVEST 2025.
Register now! (There is no separate registration for the HARVEST 2025 Workshop; register on the 54th ICPP page.)
Submit a Paper for HARVEST 2025
Original paper submissions in a range of areas are welcomed, including but not limited to:
- Data analytics and decision-making for agriculture
- Application of advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) for agriculture
- Experiences in collecting and curating data large scale data for agriculture
- AI applications to field-scale agriculture use cases.
- AI solutions enabling smart farm management practices.
- Applications multi-modal generative models in enabling and accelerating research in plant science and agriculture.
- Experiences and efforts in creating annotated benchmark datasets for ML in agriculture.
Paper submissions are due by July 15, 2025. Learn more about HARVEST 2025, including how to submit a paper, on the AIVO website.
Call for Abstracts by July 15:
AI-SDM’s 2025 Workshop on Human-AI Complementarity for Decision Making
The annual Human-AI Complementarity for Decision Making Workshop will be held September 25–26, 2025, at the Cohon University Center, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.
This is an incredible opportunity for faculty, researchers, and especially emerging scholars across all AI Institutes to get involved! The workshop features cutting-edge tutorials and an interactive poster session – perfect for sharing early-stage work and fostering new connections.
Sponsored by the NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making (NSF AI-SDM), and led by NSF AI-SDM PI Aarti Singh and Co-PI Cleotilde Gonzalez, the workshop explores the concept of Human-AI Complementarity—a condition where humans and AI systems working together outperform either working alone.
The 2025 theme focuses on flexible Human-AI teams: systems that align with human values, withstand unexpected behaviors, and remain robust even under failure. Sessions will focus on the flexibility and dynamics of Human-AI interactions for decision making, including but not limited to:
- The role of AI agents in shaping human decision confidence and calibration
- AI’s influence on trust, coordination, and collaboration
- Addressing undesirable or failure-prone AI behaviors
Key goals of the workshop are to deliver cutting-edge instruction on achieving Human-AI complementarity, create common knowledge around emerging research challenges, and generate new ideas and concrete proposals for future research.
Learn more about the workshop.
Submit an Abstract for the Human-AI Complementarity for Decision Making Workshop
Submissions should highlight ongoing or proposed research related to the workshop theme and topics.
Abstract submissions are invited from students, faculty, and researchers from multiple disciplines – decision science, cognitive science, computer science, machine learning, and beyond. Participants may be:
- Tutorial Instructors: Delivering state-of-the-art educational sessions
- Students: Presenting interactive posters and engaging in tutorials
- Presenters: Providing brief, targeted insights on key research topics
Abstracts must be submitted by July 15. They should be a maximum of 300 words and include the title, authors, and affiliations. Submit your abstract (form).
Selected abstracts will be presented as talks or interactive poster sessions. The primary author of the abstract will be invited to attend the workshop in person. Their travel and lodging expenses will be covered by NSF AI-SDM.
How to Add Your Events to the AIVO Website
Does your Institute have an event coming up? Add your event to the AIVO website!
There’s a guide on how to update the AIVO events calendar. Access the guide on the AIVO Intraweb (login required) in the Intraweb Guides section at the bottom of the Intraweb landing page.
You can also contact AIVO at aivo@ucdavis.edu to get your event added to the website.
