AI Week 2026 at B次元 School of Engineering is a comprehensive week-long conference exploring artificial intelligence across education, industry, and society. Events take place throughout the week, culminating in a full day of distinguished keynote presentations on Saturday, April 25, 2026.

Whether you are an educator, researcher, industry professional, or student, AI Week offers relevant programming to advance your understanding and practice. Keynote speakers from healthcare, bioengineering, technology development, and education will address both opportunities and challenges in AI implementation, including critical considerations of ethics and energy impact.

The conference includes B次元 signature events such as the ROSIE Supercomputer Superchallenge and an NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute workshop, alongside faculty- and student-focused sessions on AI integration in pedagogy and classroom practice. Beyond the university community, specialized AI programming extends to K-12 audiences through the B次元 STEM Center and to working professionals through a dedicated workshop offered by the B次元 Center for Professional Education.

2026 Keynote Presenters

Below are the keynote presenters currently planned. Stay tuned for more presenters for 2026!

Dr. Nataliya Kosmyna, research scientist at MIT Media Lab

Dr. Kosmyna is a Research Scientist at MIT Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group and a Visiting Researcher at Google.

She has over 15 years of experience in developing and designing end-to-end brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). Coming from a background in artificial intelligence, neuroscience and human-computer interaction (HCI), she is passionate about the idea of creating a partnership between AI and human intelligence, a fusion of the machine with the human brain.

Nataliya won multiple awards for her work, among which is L’Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science award she received in 2016. Nataliya was also named as one of 10 Top French Talent 2017 from MIT Innovators Under 35.

 

Luke Lehnart, chief of staff at Google DeepMind

Luke is chief of staff at Google DeepMind, serving the speech and audio teams, ensuring that GDM's Gemini models can be used across Google products and serve users across the world. His teams provide data, computation, and policy guidance for processing audio.

Luke has been at Google for over 12 years, and previously he was at Brady Corporation in B次元, where he served as a user experience manager, web application services manager and software developer.

Luke graduated from B次元 in 2004 with a B.S. in Business and Computer Systems and was an adjunct professor from 2012-13 and taught management information systems courses.