Symposium Program

Symposium on Responsible AI

October 16 - October 17, 2025

Lincoln Center Campus, Fordham University
140 West 62nd Street, New York City

Sponsored by:
Fordham University
IBM
New York University
AI Alliance

October 16th

10:00 am – 10:30 am Opening Remarks (McNally Amphitheatre)

Chair: Jonathan Crystal, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs 

  • Tania Tetlow, President, Fordham University (video)
  • Dennis Jacobs, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Fordham University
  • Eray Aydil, Senior Vice Dean, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University
  • Kanthimathi Morrissey, Chief Tax Officer, IBM

Keynote Speech Session I: AI Regulation & Frameworks (McNally Amphitheatre)

Chair: Siddharth Garg (Institute Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NYU)

Keynote Speakers:

10:30 am  – 11:15 am
Ben Brooks (Affiliate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University)
“Why Open-Source Matters, and How It's at Risk” 

11:15 am – 12:00 pm
Julia Stoyanovich (Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, NYU)
“Responsible AI Beyond Principles: Building a Regime of Distributed Accountability”

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch (Platt Court)

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Panel on Trustable AI (McNally Amphitheatre)

Chair: Frank Hsu (Clavius Distinguished Professor of Science, Fordham)

Moderator: Djallel Bouneffouf (IBM Research)

  • Marc Conte (Professor of Economics, Fordham), “Artificial Intelligence in the Anthropocene: A Driver of Deepening Inequality?”
  • Kuan-Tsae Huang (Chair Professor, Asia University, Taiwan), “Healing with Intelligence: Building Trust in AI-Powered Healthcare”
  • Elizabeth Matthews (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Social Service, Fordham), “From Possible to Principled: Building Trustworthy AI for Mental Health”
  • Wenqi Wei (Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Science, Fordham), “Where are we in Audio Deepfake Detection?”

Selected Paper Session I: AI in Safety, Governance, and Protection (Tiered Lecture Hall 334)

Chair: Andrea Greco (AI Alliance Membership and Growth Leader, IBM)

  • Andrew Hoh (President & Co-Founder, LastMile AI), “Building Transparency and Safeguards into AI Agents”
  • Stephen Keeley (Assistant Professor of Natural Sciences, Fordham), “A New Tool for Unboxing the Deep Neural Network”
  • Laura Globig (Postdoctoral researcher and cognitive neuroscientist, NYU), “Artificial Intelligence Circumvents Identity-Driven Biases in Source Selection during Information-Seeking”
  • Yilu Zhou (Associate Professor, Gabelli School of Business, Fordham): “Can Chat GPT Protect Children from Age-Inappropriate Apps? A Study on Maturity Rating with Multimodal LLMs”

2:30 pm -2:45 pm Coffee Break

2:45 pm - 4:15 pm

Selected Paper Session II: AI in Ethics, Security and Justice (McNally Amphitheatre) 

Chair: Holly Curtis (Assistant Provost for Corporate Relations, Fordham)

  • Celia Fisher (Marie Ward Doty University Chair in Ethics, Professor of Psychology, Fordham), “Reimagining Research Ethics for the Age of Digital Wearables: Risks, Power, and Responsibility”
  • Dinesh Verma (Fellow, IBM) and Mohamed Rahouti (Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Fordham), “NLIP: Enabling Responsible, Secure, and Interoperable AI Agent Communication”
  • Giacomo Santangelo (Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Fordham), “The 'AI Externality-Equity Nexus:' When Market Failures Become Justice Failures”
  • Lenka Molins (Researcher, Oxford Internet Institute), “AI Audits and Accountability: The Legal Approaches across Jurisdictions and their Shortcomings”

Selected Paper Session III: Health Care and AI Governance (Tiered Lecture Hall 334)

Chair: Robert Hume (Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs, Arts and Sciences, Fordham)

  • Kellie Owens (Assistant Professor, Division of Medical Ethics, NYU Grossman School of Medicine), “Managing a ‘Responsibility Vacuum’ in AI Monitoring and Governance in Healthcare: A Qualitative Study”
  • R.P. Raghupathi (Professor, Gabelli School of Business, Fordham) and Leonard Chiang (Graduate Student, Gabelli School of Business, Fordham), “Explainability in Deep Learning in Healthcare and Medicine: Panacea or Pandora’s Box?”
  • Jie Ren (Associate Professor of ITO, Gabelli School of Business, Fordham), “Unveiling Gender Dynamics for Mental Health Posts in Social Media and Generative Artificial Intelligence”
  • Zachary Griffen (Postdoctoral Fellow, NYU Grossman School of Medicine), “Governance from Below: How to Regulate AI When Nobody’s Watching”

4:20 pm - 5:20 pm

Workshop on Agentic AI Tools (McNally Amphitheatre)

Chair: Jessica Lang (Dean, Arts and Sciences, Fordham)

  • Ruopeng An (Endowed Professor in Data Science and Prevention, Silver School of Social Work, NYU), “From Assistant to Research Partner: A Hands-On Introduction to Agentic AI Tools and Workflows”

October 17th

Keynote Session II: Trustworthy AI (McNally Amphitheatre)

Chair: Peter Santhanam (Program Director, Open AI Technology Advocacy, IBM)

Keynote Speakers:

10:30 am  – 11:15 am
Anthony Annunziata (Director of AI Innovation, IBM, Open Source AI)
“Scaling Intelligence Outward”

11:15 am – 12:00 pm
Doni Bloomfield (Associate Professor, School of Law, Fordham)
“Governing Dual-Use Training Data”

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch (Platt Court)

1:00 pm - 2:55 pm

Selected Paper Session IV: Trustworthy AI (McNally Amphitheatre) 

Chair: Ann Gaylin (Vice Dean for Graduate Studies, Arts and Sciences, Fordham) 

  • Mandanna Appanderanda Nanaiah (Head of Responsible AI, Americas, Infosys), “Scaling Trust: How to Operationalize Responsible AI Across the Enterprise”
  • Aimee Rinehart (Founder, Frontier Collective), “Ownership, Not Just Happy Talk: Co-Designing a Participatory Large Language Model for Journalism”
  • Kuan-Tsae Huang (Chair Professor, Asia University, Taiwan), “Sovereign AI and Autonomous Uncrewed Vehicles in Secure High-Tech Manufacturing”
  • Su-Je Cho (Professor, Graduate School of Education, Fordham), “Beyond the Classroom: How AI Expands Access to Language Learning”
  • Wenqi Wei (Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Science, Fordham), “Navigating Organizational Trade-offs among Quality, Privacy, and Security in AI Risk Management – A Case Study in Code Generation Large Language Models”

Selected Paper Session V: AI in Legal Regulations (Tiered Lecture Hall 334)

Chair: Joe Landau (Dean, School of Law, Fordham University)

  • Adam Pingel (IBM Head of Open Tools and Applications for the AI Alliance), “AI, Law, and Responsibility – Navigating Risks and Opportunities in the Legal Space”
  • Deborah Denno (Arthur A. McGivney Professor of Law, School of Law, Fordham), “Neuroscience: The Foundation of Artificial Intelligence”
  • Courtney Cox (Associate Professor, School of Law, Fordham), “Hardwiring Hercules”
  • Mark Conrad (Professor of Law and Ethics, Gabelli School of Business, Fordham), “The New California, New York and Tennessee Digital Replica Laws and Free Speech: First Amendment Conflict with the Right of Publicity?”
  • Aditya Saharia (Professor of Information Systems, Gabelli School of Business, Fordham), “Productivity, Displacement, and the Global Ethics of Deployment”

2:55 pm – 3:10 pm Coffee Break

3:10 pm - 4:20 pm (McNally Amphitheatre)

Fireside Chat: Perspective on Responsible AI (RAI): Recent Progress and Future Directions

Moderator: Andrea Greco (AI Alliance Membership and Growth Leader, IBM)

Speakers:

  • Mandanna Appanderanda Nanaiah (Head of Responsible AI, Americas, Infosys)
  • Frank Hsu (Clavius Distinguished Professor of Science, Fordham)
  • Adam Pingel (IBM Head of Open Tools and Applications for the AI Alliance)
  • Anthony Vigilante (Founder and CEO of Vigilant Innovation Group)

4:20 pm - 4:50 pm Closing Session

Chair: George Hong (Chief Research Officer and Associate Provost for Research, Fordham)

Participants: 

  • Siddharth Garg (NYU)
  • Andrea Greco (AI Alliance and IBM)
  • Frank Hsu (Fordham)
  • Peter Santhanam (IBM)