The 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
January 20 – January 27, 2026 | Singapore

Conference Organizers
AAAI Conference Committee Chair
- Kevin Leyton-Brown (University of British Columbia, Canada)
General Chair
- Sven Koenig (University of California Irvine, USA)
Associate General Chair
- Eric Eaton (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Program Co-Chairs
- Chad Jenkins (University of Michigan, USA)
- Matthew Taylor (University of Alberta, Canada)
Associate Program Chairs
- Bo An (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
- Joydeep Biswas (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
- David Crandall (Indiana University, USA)
- Matthew Lease (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
- Kiri Wagstaff (Oregon State University, USA)
Workflow Chairs
- Anthony Opipari (University of Michigan, USA)
- Adam Parker (University of Alberta, Canada)
- Shelia Schoepp (University of Alberta, Canada)
- Gautham Vasan (University of Alberta, Canada)
- Haoran Zhang (University of Michigan, USA)
AI Alignment Chairs
- Dylan Hadfield-Menell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
- Lindsay Sanneman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
- Sarath Sreedharan (Colorado State University, USA)
AI for Social Impact Chairs
- Andrew Perrault (The Ohio State University, USA)
- Daniel Sheldon (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
Bridge Chairs
- Nadia Figueroa (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Demonstration Chairs
- Shirin Sohrabi (IBM Research, USA)
- Sarath Sreedharan (Colorado State University, USA)
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
- Roland Yap Hock Chuan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
EAAI-26 Conference Co-Chairs
- Narges Norouzi (University of California Berkley, USA)
- Lisa Zhang (University of Toronto, Canada)
Emerging Trends in AI Chairs
- Reuth Mirsky (Tufts University, USA)
- Harold Soh (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
- William Yeoh (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
Ethics Chairs
- Matthew Gombolay (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
- Cynthia Matuszek (University of Maryland, Baltimore Campus, USA)
Exhibit Chairs
- Yan Shuicheng (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
- Li Xiaoli (Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore)
IAAI-26 Conference Co-Chairs
- Sean McGregor, General Chair, (Responsible AI Collaborative, USA)
- Serdar Kadioglu, Vice-Chair, (Brown University, USA)
- Eren Kurshan, Program-Chair, (Princeton University, USA)
- Jan R. Seyler, Publicity Chair, (Festo, Germany)
- Jae Hong, Park, Region Chair, (Kyung Hee University)
Job Fair Chairs
- Hau Chan (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
- Ng Teck Khim (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Journal Track Chairs
- K. Brent Venable (University of West Florida, USA)
- Zhen Zeng (J.P.Morgan, USA)
New Faculty Highlights Chairs
- Noa Agmon (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
- Yuhong Guo (Carleton University, Canada)
Outreach Chairs
- Pradeep Varakantham (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Senior Members Track Chairs
- Jana Doppa (Washington State University, USA)
- Kate Larson (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Social Media and Publicity Chair
- Hadi Hosseini (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
- Gautam Kamath (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Sponsorship Chairs
- Xuelong Li (TeleAI of China Telecom, China)
- Tongliang Liu (University of Sydney, Australia)
- Soujanya Poria (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
- Wenbin Zhang (Florida International University, USA)
Student Abstracts Chairs
- Michael Albert (University of Virginia, USA)
- Tom Williams (Colorado School of Mines, USA)
Student Activities Chair
- Hau Chan (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
Tutorial and Lab Forum Chairs
- Michael Katz (IBM, USA)
- Nicholas Mattei (University of Tulane, USA)
Undergraduate Consortium Co-Chairs
- Jason Grant (Villanova University, USA)
Volunteer Coordinator
- Victor Khaustov (University of Aizu, Japan)
Workshop Chairs
- Ariel Felner (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
- Nadin Kokciyan (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
- Jiaoyang Li (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

