AIRES / Academics
Investigate a question. Choose the right tools. Develop original AI research or innovation with expert mentors.
Explore Academics
Start with a field. Build toward original work.
01 / Academic Focuses
Explore questions across engineering, health, business and society. Discover where AI can make a difference.
Who it’s for
For students interested in computer science, engineering, or robotics who want to explore how AI helps devices and information systems sense, process information, and respond.
Investigate how machines sense, move and interact with people. Connect engineering, computer science and design, then explore where AI can improve perception, control or responses in physical systems.
Who it’s for
For students interested in biology, statistics, or biomedical engineering who want to use AI to understand health data and improve health-related tools and processes.
Investigate questions about living systems, disease and healthcare. Connect biology, statistics, engineering and human behavior, then explore where AI can reveal patterns, support investigation or inform new approaches to care.
Who it’s for
For students interested in business, economics, policy, or social issues who want to examine how AI changes decisions, organizations, and everyday life.
Investigate how people, organizations and communities make decisions. Connect economics, psychology, policy and ethics, then explore where AI can deepen understanding, inform decisions or support useful products and services.
How your focus works
Your academic focus shapes the problems, applications, and skills you explore in seminars—and the research or solutions you develop in CoLab for your final project.
Hands-on development
Selected projects, particularly those involving hardware, will include collaboration with local makerspaces to support prototyping, testing, and product deployment.
02 / The learning experience
Investigate questions and real-world problems, compare research methods and possible solutions, and refine your work through lectures, seminars and CoLab.
AIRES Advantage
Focus meets practice.
CoLab is dedicated time to turn your academic interests into original work. Working independently or collaboratively, students define problems, develop research or prototypes, test ideas, and refine their work through mentor feedback. It is where academic focus, AI skills, and sustained project development come together.
Build AI Literacy
Understand how AI methods work, their limits and when they fit your research question or proposed solution.
Connect Perspectives
Explore questions within your academic focus. Compare approaches, evidence and trade-offs.
Develop Your Project
Connect your academic interests with AI research and innovation through mentored investigation, prototyping, testing and refinement.
Learn from Industry
Explore real AI applications with industry experts. Discuss the decisions, constraints and career paths behind the work.
College Admissions Sessions · AIRES Summer
Shape your project story in one-to-one sessions with a college admissions counselor.
Show your original thinking, creative decisions and interdisciplinary mindset. Explain the real-world need your project addresses and its potential social impact.
Describe your role, initiative and results through specific examples from your project.
Find a question, challenge or turning point worth writing about. Tell the story in your own voice.
03 / From learning to original work
Choose what you want to investigate further, test or develop.
Pathway 01
Build evidence-based research
Develop a focused question, examine existing work and choose appropriate methods. Analyze evidence with a mentor, then explain your findings and limitations.
Selected top research papers receive support for publication preparation and submission.
Explain your research question, methods, findings and limits. Practice answering questions with feedback from academic mentors and judges.
Pathway 02
Identify a need. Develop and test a solution.
Investigate a real need. Develop an AI-enabled prototype with mentors, test it with feedback and assess its potential value.
Selected top innovation projects receive up to $5,000 in funding.
Pitch your idea, demonstrate your prototype and explain your decisions. Practice answering questions with feedback from academic mentors and judges.
Beyond the program
Both pathways offer opportunities for AI conference presentations.
Further support for competitions and publication is available upon request.
Project scope and technical complexity vary with students’ experience, program length, and progress.
Publication, funding, and conference participation depend on project quality, readiness, and further review. The scope and any additional fees for continued support will be confirmed separately.
04 / Sample schedules
See how academic sessions, project work and campus life fit into a summer day.
Non-residential seasonal programs follow the same daytime curriculum structure and conclude around 5 p.m.
2026 sample, not a confirmed 2027 schedule
These examples are based on 2026 program schedules. Program schedules are subject to change based on campus and session in 2027.
“HS Counseling” in the sample schedules refers to College Admissions Sessions. Historical wording is preserved in the downloadable schedules.
Download Yale Two-Week Sample · PDFExplore campuses, session lengths, and program formats.
