Hi everyone
Instats is excited to offer a 1-day seminar, Agentic AI for Academic Research, livestreaming August 7. As frontier AI model intelligence has advanced significantly over the past year, agentic AI is now able to support research beyond narrow task automation and generic chat interfaces. This seminar helps researchers understand how AI systems can search, read, write, analyze, critique, and coordinate multi-step workflows across the academic research lifecycle. Participants will learn to frame AI as a configurable research method, with practical guidance for defining task boundaries, establishing evidence constraints and approval gates, verifying outputs, and documenting human oversight in ways that support methodological integrity, transparency, and publication readiness. Designed for PhD students and academic researchers across the social sciences, health sciences, life sciences, humanities, and natural sciences, the seminar provides transferable frameworks for evaluating where AI can responsibly support literature review, data work, analysis, writing, grant development, and research administration while preserving scholarly standards.
This seminar is an introduction to a larger 4-part course, comprised of four 2-day seminars covering AI as a Research Method, Responsible AI for Academic Research, Verifiable AI for Academic Research, and Building Agentic AI Research Teams. Sign up for these together and save 10% on their individual pricing. Hope to see you there, and feel free to share this opportunity with colleagues and students who might benefit!
Best wishes
Michael Zyphur
Professor and Director
Institute for Statistical and Data Science
https://instats.org
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Michael Zyphur
Director
Institute for Statistical and Data Science
instats.org
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