The IAP Cornell Workshop on the Future of AI in the Cloud is Scheduled on Friday, May 15, 2026 on the Cornell Campus.
​Time: 8:30am - 4:00pm EDT (Badge Pick-up at 8:30AM) – Advance Registration is Required- Please register here.
Venue: CIS 142, Computing and Information Science Building, 127 Hoy Road, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
This workshop is hosted and co-organized by Prof. José Martínez (ECE), Prof. Robbert van Renesse (CS), and the IAP.

Robbert van Renesse is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. He is a member of the Systems and Networking group and is interested in distributed systems, particularly in their fault tolerance and scalability aspects. He is co-editor-in-chief for ACM Transactions on Computing Systems. Professor van Renesse is a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery.

Computer Science PhD student Daniel Amir (front center - on the left of Prof. van Renesse) won the Best Poster Award for his research at the 2022 Cornell Workshop.

José Martínez is the Lee Teng-hui Professor of Engineering in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a member of the graduate field of Computer Science. He is co-PI for the JUMP 2.0 Center for Evolvable Computing (ACE, 2023-27) and the NSF Science & Technology Center for Research on Programmable Plant Systems (CROPPS, 2021-26). Professor Martínez is a Fellow of the IEEE.

​Participants will include faculty, postdocs, students, industry scientists and engineers. The student poster session conducted during the break at lunch is open to any student. The Best Poster Award is $300.

Testimonials from Previous Workshops

Professor David Patterson, the Pardee Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley, “I saw strong participation at the Cloud Workshop, with some high energy and enthusiasm; and I was delighted to see industry engineers bring and describe actual hardware, representing some of the newest innovations in the data center.”

Professor Christos Kozyrakis, Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Stanford University, “As a starting point, I think of these IAP workshops an intersection of industry’s newest solutions in hardware with academic research in computer architecture; but more so, these workshops additionally cover new subsystems and applications, and in a smaller venue where it is easy to discuss ideas and cross-cutting approaches with colleagues.”
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Professor Hakim Weatherspoon, Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University, “I have participated in three IAP Workshops since the first one at Cornell in 2013 and it is great to see that the IAP premise is a success now as it was then, bringing together industry and academia in a focused all-day exchange of ideas.  It was a fantastic experience and I look forward to the next one!”  

Dr. Carole-Jean Wu, Research Scientist, AI Infrastructure, Facebook Research, and Professor of CSE, Arizona State University, “IAP Workshops provide valuable interactions among faculty, students and industry. The smaller venue and the poster session foster an interactive environment for in-depth discussions and spark new collaborative opportunities. Thank you for organizing this wonderful event! It was very well run.” 

Dr. Pankaj Mehra, VP Product Planning, Samsung (currently CEO Elephance Memory),  "Terrifically organized Workshops that give all parties -- students, faculty, industry -- valuable insights to take back."