Virtual Workshop 2026 - AI Meets CI - Day 3 - Talk II: Building the Human-AI Scientific Discovery Ecosystem with Svitlana Volkova, Aptima
Talk II: Building the Human-AI Scientific Discovery Ecosystem: Agentic Workflows and Trustworthy Human-Agent Teaming for Next-Generation Research Infrastructure, Svitlana Volkova, Chief of AI, Aptima Inc.
Abstract: Building the Human-AI Scientific Discovery Ecosystem: Agentic Workflows and Trustworthy Human-Agent Teaming for Next-Generation Research Infrastructure
The GENESIS Mission envisions AI agents that automate research workflows and accelerate scientific breakthroughs. Yet realizing this vision requires human-centered design ensuring effective scientist-AI collaboration. This talk presents two complementary approaches from recent DARPA efforts: BIOSAGE, a compound AI platform orchestrating specialized agents for cross-disciplinary scientific knowledge synthesis, research debate, and hypothesis generation through workflow-centric design; and EMHAT, a framework using human digital twins to investigate trust dynamics and optimize human-AI team performance. Together, these efforts offer Major and Mid-Scale Facilities a roadmap for integrating agentic AI that is scientifically productive, operationally effective, and grounded in human factors essential for trustworthy adoption.
The NSF CI Compass virtual workshop - AI Meets CI: Intelligent Infrastructure for Major & Midscale Facilities featured themes to host speakers, presentations, and discussions surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) and cyberinfrastructure (CI) within the data lifecycle in facilities, cloud computing, and about societal and human intersections with AI.
Originally hosted January 12, 13, and 14, 2026
This project is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure in the Directorate for Computer Information Science under Grant #2127548.