The 11th Annual Simons Institute Industry Day is Thursday, November 13, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. PST in Calvin Lab Auditorium.
Industry Day brings the Institute’s industry and institutional partners together with our visiting graduate students, postdoctoral research fellows, and senior researchers, as well as scientists from the broader Berkeley campus.
This year’s event will include presentations by our current partners, lightning talks by research fellows, and highlights from our current research programs — Complexity and Linear Algebra, and Algorithmic Foundations for Emerging Computing Technologies. A reception and dinner will conclude the day.
Participation is open to the Simons Institute's Industry Partners and Sponsors, organizers, research fellows and scientists in Institute programs, and members of the Berkeley community.
Learn more about our Industry Partnerships program here, or contact Senior Development Director Amy Ambrose for further information at amyambrose@berkeley.edu or +1 510 944 6674.
Thursday, November 13, 2025
Schedule subject to change
8:45-9:10 AM | | Check in |
9:10-9:15 AM | | Welcome remarks by Simons Institute Director |
9:15-10:45 AM | | Program Presentations- Cryptography 10 Years Later: Obfuscation, Proof Systems, and Secure Computation: Sanjam Garg, UC Berkeley
- Quantum Summer Cluster: Umesh Vazirani, UC Berkeley
- Complexity and Linear Algebra: JM Landsberg, Texas A&M University
- Algorithmic Foundations for Emerging Computing Technologies: Kirk Pruhs, University of Pittsburgh
- Federated and Collaborative Learning: Nati Srebro, TTIC
- Talk By: Jim Demmel, UC Berkeley
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| 10:45-11:00 AM | | Break |
11:00 AM- 12:30 PM | | Industry Presentations- Bridging Central and Local Differential Privacy: Private Aggregation in the Federated Setting: Hilal Asi, Machine Learning Researcher at Apple
- Talk Title TBD: Rohan Alurs, Principal Research Scientist at Bridgewater
- Algorithms for Online Navigation Platforms, Kostas Kollias, Research Scientist at Google
- Federated Byzantine Agreement: Overview and Open Questions: Giuliano Losa, Stellar Foundation
- ADIA Lab Year in Review: Horst Simon, Director of ADIA Lab
- Formal Verification in Chip Designs: Vigyan Singhal, Vice-President at NVIDIA
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12:30-1:45 PM | | Lunch (catered) |
1:45-3:15 PM | | Lightning Talks by Simons Institute Fellows- History Independence in Data Structures: Hanna Komlós
- Data-efficient matrix recovery and operator learning: Diana Halikias
- Byzantine Agreement with Predictions: Naama Ben-David
- Optimal Oblivious Reconfigurable Networks: Tegan Wilson
- Complexity and the Euclidean Algorithm: Robert Andrews
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| 3:15-3:45 PM | | Break |
3:45-5:00 PM | | Short Industry Talks- Canonical Partition Function on a Quantum Computer through Trotter Interpolation: Gumaro Rendon, Senior Researcher at Fujitsu
- Deep Learning with Plausible Deniability: Anderson C A Nascimento, Head of Visa Research Quantum at Visa
- Talk Title TBD: Sahand Negahban, Research Scientist at Voleon
- From Bits to Rounds: Unifying Information-Theoretic Limits and Real-World Efficiency in Discrete Diffusion Language Models: Jiantao Jiao, Director of Research and Distinguished Scientist at Nvidia
- Cultivating a Comet: Collaborative Learning toward Open-World Agents: Jack Ma, Senior Engineer at Perplexity AI
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| 5:00 PM | | Closing Remarks |
