Program Jan. 14-15

Main conference where the whole WASP community is invited.

This year we expect more than 600 people from the WASP community to join for program updates, research presentations, poster sessions and cluster meetings. There will also be awards and a ceremony for our 2025 graduates.

The main conference is mandatory for all PhD students and exceptions to attend must be approved by your supervisor.

The main conference is held in Conventum Congress and Conventum Arena. The Congress entrance will be open and it is located at Fabriksgatan 17-19.

Program January 14

Time	Activity	Room
08.30 – 10.00	Registration	Conventum Congress, Fabriksgatan 17-19
08:30-09:30	Hanging of posters and mounting of exhibition	Arena
10.00-11:10	Welcome and Director’s update Anders Ynnerman, Chair of the WASP Board Amy Loutfi, WASP Program Director	Congress hall, floor 2
	Keynote Generative AI & Magical Thinking Serge Belongie, P1 Director and Professor, University of Copenhagen	Congress hall, floor 2
	Keynote The Role of Humans in AI and Robotics Henny Admoni, Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University	Congress hall, floor 2
11:10-11:30	Coffee break	Arena
11:30-12:45	Poster session 1 Posters, exhibition and Project Course presentations	Arena
13:00-14:00	Lunch	Banquet hall, Congress, floor 1
14.15 – 15.30	Poster session 2 Posters, exhibition and Project Course presentations	Arena
15.45 -16.05	Keynote Next-Gen Software Development: AI Acceleration Without the Chaos Adam Tornhill, Founder, CodeScene	Congress hall, floor 2
16:10-16:40	Scientific highlights Algebraic Neural Network Theory, Kathlén Kohn, Associate Professor at KTH Scalable AI Planning, Jendrik Seipp, Senior Associate Professor at LiU Chatbots in Software Engineering, Ranim Khojah, PhD student at CTH The Robotic Data Challenge, Shutong Jin, PhD student at KTH	Congress hall, floor 2
16.45 – 16.55	Information by PhD Student Council Karol Wojtulewicz and Ayesha Jena, chair and vice-chair of the student council	Congress hall, floor 2
16.55 – 17.00	Wrap-up and practical information for the evening	Congress hall, floor 2
17:00-18:30	Free time
18:30-22:00	Conference Banquet Celebration of the 2025 graduates and announcement of the Alum of the Year	Banquet hall, Congress, floor 1

Program January 15

Time	Activity	Room
08.30 – 09:00	Registration	Conventum Congress, Fabriksgatan 17-19
09:00	Welcome back Amy Loutfi, WASP Program Director	Congress hall, floor 2
09.05 – 09.25	Keynote Holger Hoos, Professor, RWTH Aachen University Title TBA	Congress hall, floor 2
09.30 – 10.00	The WASP researcher behind an ERC Grant AI for molecular design and engineering Rocío Mercado Oropeza, WASP Fellow, Chalmers University of TechnologyScalability and data efficiency in learning-based control Anders Rantzer, Professor, Lund University	Congress hall, floor 2
10.05 – 10.15	Announcement of Best Poster and Best Thesis awards Chair: Karl-Erik Årzén, WASP Co-director; Thomas Schön, Vice-chair Research Management Group; Holger Hoos, Professor, RWTH Aachen University and member of WASP ISAB	Congress hall, floor 2
10.15 – 10.55	Coffee break	Congress foyer
11.00 – 11.30	Alumni of the year presentation Best thesis of the year presentation Chair: Karl-Erik Årzén, WASP Co-director	Congress hall, floor 2
11.30-12.30	Lunch	Banquet hall, Congress, floor 1
12.45- 13.45	Cluster session #1	Meeting rooms, Conventum Konferens
13.45 -14.15	Coffee break
14.15 – 15.15	Cluster session #2	Meeting rooms, Conventum Konferens