Welcome to CSLSC 2026!

FEBRUARY 23 – 25, 2026

The Coordinated Science Laboratory Student Conference (CSLSC) is a student-organized annual event of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The conference gathers scientists from academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge research problems from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

This year’s plenary talk will be delivered by Vivek Natarajan, AI Researcher at Google DeepMind, titled “Advancing science and medicine with collaborative AI agents.”

The conference will feature the following Technical Sessions.

1. Machine Learning, Generative AI, and Signal Processing
2. Optimization and Reinforcement Learning
3. Robotics and Control
4. Circuits, Architectures, and Scalable Systems
5. Security, Privacy, and Trustworthy AI
6. AI in Healthcare and Computational Biology

Submit your abstracts for oral and poster presentations here.

For more information, please contact the general co-chairs, Omar Bekdache (omarb3@illinois.edu) and Mosbah Aouad (maouad2@illinois.edu)