Speakers & Panelists

Confirmed participants for invited talks and the panel discussion at AgenticLS.

Invited Speakers

Invited talks span biomedical AI agents, biology-specialized foundation models, scientific reasoning, and autonomous laboratories.

Jure Leskovec
Jure Leskovec
Professor, Stanford University
Biomedical AI agents; knowledge graphs
Maria Brbić
Maria Brbić
Assistant Professor, EPFL
Foundation models & agents for cell biology
Heng Ji
Heng Ji
Professor, UIUC
Agentic AI for science; LLM reasoning
Joy Jiao
Joy Jiao
Life Sciences Research Lead, OpenAI
Agentic AI for life sciences
Michelle Lee
Michelle Lee
CEO & Founder, Medra AI
Physical-AI scientist; robotic closed-loop biology

Panelists

A 50-minute panel on the generalist-vs.-specialist debate and the “how to build” question.

Marinka Zitnik
Marinka Zitnik
Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Agentic AI for biology & medicine
Eli Carrami
Eli Carrami
Staff Research Scientist, Isomorphic Labs
AI for drug discovery (industry deployment)
Tommaso Biancalani
Tommaso Biancalani
SVP, Generative Biology, Lila Sciences
Lab-in-the-loop AI; foundation models for biology