[CFP] 5th Annual AAAI Workshop on AI to Accelerate Science and Engineering (AI2ASE)

[Aryan Deshwal]

Call for Papers (Submission deadline: October 22nd, 2025)

5th Annual AAAI Workshop on AI to Accelerate Science and Engineering (AI2ASE)

Website: https://ai-2-ase.github.io/

Scientists and engineers in diverse application domains are increasingly relying on using computational and artificial intelligence (AI) tools to accelerate scientific discovery and engineering design. AI, machine learning, and reasoning algorithms are useful in building models and decision-making towards this goal. We have already seen several success stories of AI in applications such as materials discovery, ecology, wildlife conservation, and molecule design optimization. This workshop aims to bring together researchers from AI and diverse science/engineering communities to achieve the following goals:

- Identify and understand the challenges in applying AI to specific science and engineering problems.
- Develop, adapt, and refine AI tools for novel problem settings and challenges.
- Community-building and education to encourage collaboration between AI researchers and domain area experts.

Invited Speakers

This year’s theme is AI for agricultural and forestry sciences. Our invited speakers, who are working on important problems at the intersection of AI and domain sciences, include:

Prof. Shashi Shekhar, AI-LEAF Institute Director / University of Minnesota
Prof. Bryan Kian Hsiang Low, National University of Singapore

Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline: October 22nd, 2025 (11:59 PM PST)

Notification: November 8th, 2025 (11:59 PM PST)

Submission Format:

We welcome submissions of long (max. 8 pages), short (max. 4 pages), and position (max. 4 pages) papers describing research at the intersection of AI and science/engineering domains including chemistry, physics, power systems, materials, catalysis, health sciences, computing systems design and optimization, epidemiology, agriculture, forestry, transportation, earth and environmental sciences, genomics and bioinformatics, civil and mechanical engineering etc.

Submissions must be formatted in the AAAI submission format. All submissions should be done electronically via CMT.

Submission site:  https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/AItoASE2026 

Workshop organizers:

Aryan Deshwal, University of Minnesota
Jana Doppa, Washington State University
Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota
Carla Gomes, Cornell University
Azza Fadhel, Washington State University