CISE Fall Workshop 2026: AI Evaluation & Alignment for High-Stakes Systems

Date: Friday, November 6, 2026
Time: 8:30am – 5:30pm
Location: 8 St. Mary’s Street, Photonics Building, PHO 906

Sponsored by the Center for Information & Systems Engineering, this workshop will bring together researchers to explore how AI systems can be effectively evaluated, aligned, and governed in high-stakes settings. Topics will include benchmark design, human feedback, evaluation, post-deployment monitoring, human oversight, and guardrails, with applications in energy, healthcare, business operations, education, and scientific discovery. Through talks, panels, and poster sessions, the workshop aims to identify important research challenges, foster new collaborations, and generate ideas for future grants, partnerships, and broader initiatives in trustworthy AI.

View Agenda here.

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Workshop Organizers:

Vassilis Digalakis Assistant Professor, Questrom (OTM) and ENG (SE) Boston University	Brian Kulis Associate Professor, ENG (ECE, CS, SE) Boston University	Jinglong Zhao Assistant Professor, Questrom (OTM) Boston University

Speakers:

Finale Doshi-Velez Professor Harvard University	Venkatesh Saligrama Professor Boston University	Hamsa Bastani Associate Professor University of Pennsylvania	Vasilis Syrgkanis Assistant Professor Stanford University	Tijana Zrnic Assistant Professor Stanford University	Dylan Hadfield-Menell Associate Professor MIT

Panelists:

Eli Ben-Michael Assistant Professor Carnegie Mellon University	Dean Eckles Professor MIT	Michael Lingzhi Li Assistant Professor Harvard University

Vision Talk Speakers:

Chris Dellarocas Professor, Questrom (IS) Former Associate Provost, Digital Learning & Innovation Boston University	Yannis Paschalidis Distinguished Professor, ENG (SE) Director, Hariri Institute Boston University