Columbia University · School of Engineering and Applied Science

The hub for core AI research at Columbia

CAIL brings together faculty and students across the engineering school working on machine learning, vision, language, robotics, and the foundations of AI.

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64 Faculty
207 Students & postdocs
20 Departments

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What we study

Research Areas

01Agents 02Bioinformatics 03Causality 04Deep Learning 05Explainable AI 06Graphics 07ML Theory 08Natural Language 09Optimization 10Probabilistic ML 11Reinforcement Learning 12Robotics 13Statistical ML 14Vision
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Recent Talks

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Speakers for the next academic semester will be announced soon. In the meantime, here are some of our recent talks.

Oct 16 Fri
ML Seminar

Aviral Kumar · Carnegie Mellon University

Is Exploration on Hard Problems in LLM RL a Solved Problem?

Friday, October 16, 2026 11:00 AM

SSW Room 903

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Oct 13 Tue
Vision Seminar

Sridhar Lakshmanan · Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., University of Michigan-Dearborn

Freespace Optical Communications Using Existing Luminaires and Related Applications

Tuesday, October 13, 2026 3:00 PM

CSB 480

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The Core AI Lab advances the foundations of artificial intelligence and puts them to work in science and society.