AutoML 2026

Keynotes by

Jure Leskovec

Stanford University

Beyond the Table: Relational Foundation Models as the New Frontier of AutoML

Carola Doerr

CNRS – Sorbonne Université

AutoML for Black-Box Optimization

Steve Jiang

HireEZ AI

When the Candidate Is a Model and the Recruiter Is a Bot: Automating Talent Market in the LLM Agent Era

Niki van Stein

Leiden University

Rethinking AutoML Through Code Evolution

General and PC Chairs

Tome Eftimov
General Chair

Atlas Wang
PC Chair

Elena Raponi
PC Chair

Lars Kotthoff
PC Chair

Contact: pc-chairs-2026@automl.cc