Program & Awards
Full schedule and accepted papers are available; awards will be announced at closing.
Program

Program

SURGeLLM is a full-day workshop featuring invited talks, contributed oral sessions, posters, networking, an industry panel, and awards. The schedule below is the current program.

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All times are local to ACL 2026 in San Diego and subject to minor adjustments.

Confirmed program

Workshop Agenda

08:30–17:30 Room: Harbor D Full-day workshop
Opening
08:30 – 08:40

Opening Remarks & Welcome

First Half
08:40 – 09:35

Invited Talk 1

Photo of Preslav Nakov Preslav Nakov Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE
Talk title Trustworthy LLMs over Structured Evidence: Verifiable Reasoning, Grounded Evidence, and Human Oversight
09:35 – 10:30

Invited Talk 2

Photo of Dan Roth Dan Roth University of Pennsylvania and Oracle AI, USA
Talk title AI for Data and Data for AI
10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break + Networking + Poster Session I

11:00 – 11:45

Oral Session I

11:45 – 12:30

Invited Talk 3

Photo of Hamid Palangi Hamid Palangi Google, UW, USA
Talk title Mind the Gaps in AI-Driven Discovery
12:30 – 14:00

Lunch Break

Second Half
14:00 – 14:35

Oral Session II

14:35 – 15:30

Invited Talk 4

Photo of Lisa Amini Lisa Amini IBM Research, USA
Talk title Can AI Autonomously Build, Operate, and Use the Entire Data Stack?
15:30 – 16:00

Coffee Break + Networking + Poster Session II

16:00 – 16:45

Industry Panel Discussion

Panel Topic: Structured Data in the LLM Era: From Research Benchmarks to Real-World Industry Systems

Photo of Kamalika Das Kamalika Das Intuit, USA
Photo of Yunyao Li Yunyao Li Adobe, USA
Photo of Frederic Sala Frederic Sala Snorkel AI, USA
Photo of Lisa Amini Lisa Amini IBM Research, USA
Photo of Sujith Ravi Sujith Ravi GVP, Oracle AI, USA
16:45 – 17:15

Invited Talk 5

Photo of Heng Ji Heng Ji UIUC, USA
Talk title Function-Level Structural Knowledge for Creative Physical Intelligence
17:15 – 17:30

Closing Remarks + Awards

What to expect