North East AI Agents Day

🗓️ May 8th, 2026
📍 Jane Street Offices, New York

The goal of this workshop is to offer a comprehensive overview of AI agents, bring ML, Systems, and HCI research communities together to share progress, discuss common problems and evaluation setups, and identify opportunities for collaboration. We aim to bring together attendees from diverse disciplines to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and discuss open research questions.

Call for Papers

We welcome contributions to a broad range of topics on the design, development, systems support, and applications of AI Agents.

Interfaces and Embodiment

How should agents perceive and act within their environments (e.g., through tool use, exploration, or interactions)?

Training Recipes and Data for Agentic Behavior

Enhancing agent capabilities through more effective training algorithms and better data mixtures, and evaluation-driven practices.

Safety and Societal Implications

Guardrails necessary to ensure AI agents operate safely in real-world settings, plus ethical and economic considerations.

Human-Agent Interaction, Alignment, and Personalization

How to personalize AI agents to adapt their behavior to dynamic user preferences across diverse contexts.

Applications

Computer use, data science, applications for science (e.g., scientific discovery and deep research), education, healthcare, and software development.

Benchmarking and Evaluation

Development of robust environments and evaluation metrics that capture the diversity of real-world settings.

Scalable Architectures for Training and Running Agents

Infrastructure to train, evaluate, and deploy agents reliably at scale under strict latency, cost, data, and quality requirements.

Context, State, and Orchestration of Agentic Systems

Mechanisms for managing agent state representation and coordination through shared data, memory, or environments.

Governance, Observability, Debugging, and Reproducibility

Building tools for tracing, provenance, replay, and root-cause analysis supporting agent inspection and reproducibility.

Submit

Submission portal

Coming soon. We welcome one-page extended abstract submissions. Upon acceptance of the abstract, you are free to link a full paper, code, or data to the abstract in your talk or poster.

Organizers

Steering Committee
Deepti Raghavan

Deepti Raghavan

Brown University

Dom Moritz

Dom Moritz

Carnegie Mellon University

Eugene Wu

Eugene Wu

Columbia University

Kexin Rong

Kexin Rong

Georgia Institute of Technology

Kostis Kaffes

Kostis Kaffes

Columbia University

Ofir Press

Ofir Press

Princeton University

Ravi Netravali

Ravi Netravali

Princeton University

Ryan Marcus

Ryan Marcus

University of Pennsylvania

Shuyan Zhou

Shuyan Zhou

Duke University

Tianyi Peng

Tianyi Peng

Columbia Business School

Zhou Yu

Zhou Yu

Columbia University

Zhuang Liu

Zhuang Liu

Princeton University

Student Committee
Haonan Wang

Haonan Wang

Columbia University

Jeffrey Cho

Jeffrey Cho

University of Pennsylvania

Siyan Sylvia Li

Siyan Sylvia Li

Columbia University

Tao Long

Tao Long

Columbia University

Yanzhe Zhang

Yanzhe Zhang

Georgia Institute of Technology

Yusen Zhang

Yusen Zhang

Columbia University

Sponsors