Agents4Academia

A two-week hackathon building AI agents for academia.

Two weeks, three universities, one question: how much of the scientific grind can we hand to AI agents? Researchers from Oxford, NUS, and NTU team up to prototype open-source agents for the parts of research that eat your week: trawling literature, hunting grants, translating across disciplines, coordinating projects, and judging whether research agents are actually any good.

Everything ships in the open under permissive licences at github.com/agents4academia. By demo day we want working tools, practical lessons on building research agents, and at least one agent that an academic refuses to stop using.

Dates

14 – 26 June 2026

Venue

Department of Statistics, University of Oxford
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

Format

Invitation-only

Organizers

Klara Kaleb, Harit Vishwakarma (Oxford)
Wei Liu (NUS)

Project advisors

Yee Whye Teh, Tom Rainforth (Oxford)
Wee Sun Lee (NUS)
Luke Ong (NTU)

Participants

Researchers from Oxford, NUS, and NTU