Join us in San Francisco for AIAI 2025!



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Professor Zhenan Bao and Professor Xiang Qian, Stanford University IPL. Photo credit: Yilei Wu

Dear Friends,

While we welcome the summer months, the team here is already looking forward to the Fall and AIAS 2025, the first, annual Chen Institute Symposium on AI Accelerated Science to be held in San Francisco on October 27-28th! Tickets are free but space is limited so we’re asking you to register here.

If you’d like the opportunity to present onstage with Nobel Laureates Jennifer Doudna, David Baker, leading academics such as Animashree Anankumar, Heather J. Kulik or industry leaders such as Tom Miller, submit a paper! The call for papers ends on August 1st.

Thanks for your ongoing support.

Kind Regards,

Tianqiao Chen Chrissy Luo

TCCI in the News

Chen Institute Symposium for AI Accelerated Research

In May, the Chen Institute announced a “call for papers” for AIAS 2025, its first, annual Symposium on AI Accelerated Science to be held October 27-28th in San Francisco. Free registration for the meeting is already open and can be found here.

Jennifer Doudna, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Li Ka Shing Chancellor’s Chair in Biomedical and Health Sciences, and a Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology at UC Berkeley and David Baker, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Head of the Institute for Protein Design, and the Henrietta and Aubrey Davis Endowed Professor in Biochemistry at University of Washington will be on stage with other well-known academic and industry leaders.

Winners of the 2024 Chen Institute and Science Prize for AI Accelerated Research, who will be announced next month, will also present their innovative research.

AIAS 2025: REGISTER NOW Call for Papers: Click here

Chen Institute Parametric Memory Workshop

At the end of May this year, the Chen Institute held a a parametric memory workshop and hackathon, jointly organized with AGI House. The meeting brought together leaders in artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and computational science to explore the power of AI to accelerate the pace of scientific research and discovery.

eWEAR-X set to drive next generation of wearable technology

With a recent gift from the Chen Institute, the Stanford Wearable Electronics Initiative (eWEAR-X) is supercharging its efforts to transform researchers’ inspiration into reality by augmenting the Ideation and Prototyping Lab and providing seed funding for the university community. To push the boundaries of what’s possible, eWEAR-X is leading an effort to strengthen collaboration between researchers in engineering and medicine and providing new prototyping tools. Their goal is to advance wearable technology’s clinical and health applications.

Mobile Eye-Tracking Technology Seminar Advances Industry-Academia Collaboration

On April 19, 2025, the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute and Dlab jointly hosted an online seminar on "Mobile Eye-Tracking Technology Applications." The event brought together AI technology experts and cognitive behavioral scientists to explore cutting-edge developments in mobile eye-tracking technology. Key presentations included Dr. Yihua Cheng from University of Birmingham, Professor Ralph Adolphs from Caltech, and Dr. Gancheng Zhu from Zhejiang University. The seminar proposed an innovative "AI Multi-Terminal Eye-Tracking and Cognitive State Reasoning Workflow" and attracted significant interest from commercial companies and research teams for future collaboration opportunities.

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Training

Duke University & Chen Institute Joint AI Boot Camp 2025 Concludes Successfully

The Duke & Chen Institute Joint Boot Camp for AI & AI Accelerated Medical Research concluded successfully on May 16, 2025, after five intensive days of cutting-edge presentations and discussions. The program, hosted by Professor Jian Pei, brought together distinguished faculty and participants to explore the latest developments in medical artificial intelligence.

2025 NeuroPSI – Chen Institute joint conference on Brain, Behavior & Beyond

The third NeuroPSI–Chen Institute Joint Conference was held May 19–20, 2025, at NeuroPSI. Focusing on social cognition, decision making, and communication across species, the event brought together global experts to explore neural and behavioral dynamics through the lens of neuroscience and AI.

Supporting The Community

June 18-19, San Francisco

World AI Summit

June 11- June 14, Hong Kong

ISSCR 2025

May 9-11, Shanghai

7th International Neurotechnology Innovation Forum

April 30 - May 01, Los Angeles

USC-Chen Institute Frontiers Forum

RESEARCH

A New Tool to Detect Viruses in Sequence Data

A new software algorithm developed at Caltech enables researchers to easily search for viruses in RNA sequence data, enabling scientists to detect viruses in samples and study how they impact biological functions.

On the Same Wavelength: Neural “Fingerprints” Indicate Deep Focus Flow States in Teams

A new Caltech-led study examines the phenomenon of “team flow,” where individuals work in a flow state with others. Like a fingerprint, the electrical activity of the brain looks different from person to person, including during a flow state (team or solo). By measuring the brainwaves of volunteers as they played a collaborative video game, the researchers discovered that people whose neural patterns or “neural traits” looked similar were able to more easily achieve a team flow state together.

A Post-mortem Showed his Veteran Son had Scarring on his Brain. Now the Grieving Father is Fighting for Change

Chen Institute MGH Research Scholar Dr. Brian Edlow, appears on CBS News to discuss his work studying brain damage in 30 active-duty military volunteers. The research was spurred by the grieving father of a Navy Seal who committed suicide and was later discovered to have scarring on his brain.

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