Organizers
ICML 2026
Tong Zhang is a professor in the Computer Science department at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. He is a fellow of the IEEE, American Statistical Association, and Institute of Mathematical Statistics. His research interests include machine learning theory, algorithms, and applications. Tong Zhang has served as the chair or area chair in major machine learning conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, and COLT, and has also served on the editorial boards of leading machine learning journals such as PAMI, JMLR, and the Machine Learning Journal.
Alekh Agarwal
Miroslav Dudik
Miroslav Dudík is a Senior Principal Researcher in machine learning at Microsoft Research, NYC. His research focuses on combining theoretical and applied aspects of machine learning, statistics, convex optimization, and algorithms. Most recently he has worked on contextual bandits, reinforcement learning, and algorithmic fairness. He received his PhD from Princeton in 2007. He is a co-creator of the Fairlearn toolkit for assessing and improving the fairness of machine learning models and of the Maxent package for modeling species distributions, which is used by biologists around the world to design national parks, model the impacts of climate change, and discover new species.
Martin Jaggi
Sharon Li
Asia Biega
Lydia T. Liu
Lydia T. Liu is an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University. Her research examines the theoretical and scientific foundations of machine learning and algorithmic decision-making, with a focus on long-term societal impact. She obtained her Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed her postdoctoral research at Cornell University. She is the recipient of several internationally recognized awards, including the ICML Best Paper Award, the Amazon Research Award, the Microsoft Ada Lovelace Fellowship, and the Open Philanthropy AI Fellowship.
Dale Schuurmans
Jerry Zhu
Katherine Heller
Nihar Shah
Weijie Su
Gergely Neu
Courtney Paquette
Claire Vernade
Adam White
Keywords: Continual Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Robotics, Knowledge Representation and Intrinsic Motivation
Adam's research is focused on understanding the fundamental principles of learning in both simulated worlds and industrial control applications. His research program explores how the problem of intelligence can be modeled as a reinforcement learning agent interacting with some unknown environment, learning from a scalar reward signal rather than explicit feedback. Adam's group is deeply passionate about good empirical practices and new methodologies to help determine if our algorithms are ready for deployment in the real world. Adam has pioneered applications of reinforcement learning to real drinking and wastewater treatment plants and is the co-founder of RL Core Technologies, a startup applied AI and machine learning across industrial control.
Felix Berkenkamp
Alberto Bietti
Hanze Dong
Hyeong Kyu Choi
Alexander Hägele
Buxin Su
Tegan Emerson
Katherine Gorman
Gautam Kamath
Kevin Leyton-Brown
Chulhee Yun
Chang Yoo
Maria Skoularidou
Amy Zhang
Ismini Lourentzou
Wenming Ye
Zhenyu (Sherry) Xue
Brad Brockmeyer
Lee Campbell
Tony Manzo
Brian Nettleton
Mary Ellen Perry