About the Symposium

The Chen Institute Symposium for AI Accelerated Science is an annual event dedicated to exploring groundbreaking advancements in AI that are reshaping scientific discovery across disciplines. Each year, leading researchers, industry innovators, and influential thought leaders gather to discuss how cutting-edge AI methodologies—such as foundational models, long-term memory mechanisms, synthetic data generation, and research process automation—are revolutionizing the scientific landscape. 

The symposium features plenary lectures, interactive breakout sessions, and in-depth discussions focused on emerging AI breakthroughs and their transformative impact on fields including medicine, biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering. 

The event culminates in the prestigious Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute and Science Prize for AI Accelerated Research Award Ceremony. This prize honors exceptional early-career scientists whose empirical discoveries in the physical or life sciences were made possible through the innovative use of AI techniques. 

Call for Papers

We invite submissions that explore how core advancements in artificial intelligence are accelerating progress in science. This call focuses on transformative AI innovations that enable new modes of inquiry, hypothesis generation, and experimentation across scientific disciplines. 

We especially welcome work in the following areas:

• Foundational Models: Research on large-scale, pre-trained models that serve as general-purpose engines for scientific reasoning, prediction, and simulation
• Long-Term Memory Mechanisms: Innovations in memory architectures that enable persistent knowledge representation, context retention, and lifelong learning in AI systems
• Synthetic Data Generation: Novel techniques for creating high-fidelity synthetic datasets that augment or replace empirical data in research pipelines 
• Research Process Automation: AI tools and frameworks that automate experimental design, data analysis, literature synthesis, or other components of the scientific workflow

We encourage submissions from researchers working at the intersection of AI and the physical or life sciences, including but not limited to biology, chemistry, physics, medicine, and engineering. Selected papers will be presented at the conference, where authors will join a dynamic community shaping the future of AI-accelerated science.

AIAS Best Paper Awards

As our conference is focused on emerging areas of excellence in AI, we are excited to recognize outstanding submissions. A panel of judges will select the top three papers to receive the “Best Paper” award. Each award will also include an honorarium.

Important Dates

• Symposium Dates: October 27–28, 2025
• Paper Submission Deadline: August 1, 2025 
• Notification of Acceptance: September 1, 2025

Submission Details

We welcome:

• Full research papers (6–8 pages)
• Short papers (2–4 pages)
• Extended abstracts (up to 2 pages)
• Vision or position papers (up to 4 pages)

Submissions must follow the AIAS formatting guidelines and be submitted via EasyChair.

Paper Submissions

Authors are invited to submit original papers that are not previously published, accepted to be published, or being considered for publication in any other forum. Papers should satisfy the standard requirements of top-tier international research conferences.Papers that include text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, are prohibited unless this produced text is presented as a part of the paper’s experimental analysis. AI tools may be used to edit and polish authors’ work, such as using LLMs for light editing of their text (e.g., automate grammar checks, word autocorrect, and other editing of author-written text), but text “produced entirely” by generative/AI models is not allowed.At least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the work on-site in San Francisco, California, USA, as scheduled in the conference program.

Authorship Policy

Please ensure that all authors are identified before the submission deadline. To help reviewers identify potential conflicts of interest, the full author list must be specified by the abstract submission deadline. Consequently, no changes to authorship will be allowed under any circumstance after the abstract submission deadline; neither update will be permitted for camera-ready versions.

AIAS Conflict of Interest Policy

All authors must adhere to the AIAS Conflict of Interest policy.

Desk Rejection Policy

Submissions that fail to adhere to the anonymity, length, or formatting requirements, or violate AIAS’s policies on academic dishonesty—such as plagiarism, author misrepresentation, or falsification—may be subject to desk rejection by the chairs.

AIAS Policy Against Harassment

All authors and participants must adhere to the AIAS Policy Against Harassment.