Call for Submissions
Submit abstract2025 Summit Overview:
The Michigan Institute for Data and AI in Society (MIDAS) invites submission of abstracts for: 1) research vision talks and/or; 2) poster presentations*, for the 2025 U-M Data Science and AI Summit that will take place on Nov. 17-18, 2025.
As the focal point of data science and AI at U-M, MIDAS facilitates the work of the broad U-M data science and AI research community, advances cutting-edge methodologies and their applications, and promotes their use to benefit society. The annual Summit showcases the breadth and depth of U-M data science and AI research, and fosters ideas and collaborations that will lead to the next breakthroughs.
*Prizes for Best Poster will be conferred for various categories. See here for the award winners from 2023.
Themes
The 2025 Summit features four themes of data science and AI research:
- Theme 1: The intertwined role of data and AI in advancing knowledge and discovery. This theme focuses on the development of data science and AI methodologies and how such methodologies enable research breakthroughs in any research domain.
- Theme 2: Intelligence in collaboration. This theme focuses on research and innovation driven by collaboration, such as interdisciplinary collaboration, public-private collaboration, and human-AI collaboration.
- Theme 3: Beyond the algorithm: The role of data and AI in humanity’s future. This theme focuses on research that has significant societal impact (health, economics, energy, justice, etc) and aims to shape the future of society and human lives.
- Theme 4: The cost of data science and AI. This theme focuses on research that inspects the environmental cost, research integrity, the future of work, and other trade-offs of data science and AI’s positive impact.
Format
We invite submissions for the following:
- Abstracts for Research Vision Talks (20 minutes: 15 minute talk + 5 minutes of Q&A). Research Vision talks should discuss exciting research ideas, stimulate discussion within an interdisciplinary data science and AI community, and lay out collaboration opportunities. These talks should not simply be technical reports of projects. We especially encourage submissions from faculty members.
- Abstracts for Posters. The Posters can showcase research projects, data sets, software, or data/AI research tools. Posters with students as presenting authors will be automatically entered in the best poster competition and will be evaluated for presentation, innovation, impact, and messaging.
Please note: We ask that you select a theme that is the closest to your presentation. However, we may move a presentation to a different theme based on the number of submissions for each theme. If you are not sure whether your presentation fits with one of these themes, please submit anyways and let us decide the theme for you.
Deadlines
Submission deadline: Sept. 17, 2025, 11:59 pm (EST)
Notification of acceptance: Oct. 13, 2025
Instructions
To submit abstracts for research talks and posters:
- At least one author/presenter should have a U-M affiliation
- Please include a title, list of authors/presenters and their affiliations
- The abstract should be uploaded as one .pdf file with no more than 300 words. If necessary, you may include one figure.
- For Research Vision talks, the abstract should include a brief summary of the research idea and its context, methods and impact, and how it can benefit from collaboration.
- For posters, the abstract should include a brief summary of the research, methods, main results, and impact, or the details of a dataset, software or tool, how they can be used for research, and potential users.