Materials for the full-day workshop on Sunday, August 23, 2026 in Busan, Republic of Korea. Access is limited to registered participants — the passcode will be shared with you by email closer to the workshop date.
The passcode is shared with registered participants in your confirmation email. If you haven't received it yet, contact bhushan.gopaluni@ubc.ca.
Welcome to the workshop on LLMs and Agents for Process Industries. This page is your single entry point to everything you'll need for the hands-on session and beyond — starter notebooks, datasets, slide decks, and curated reading.
Our aim for the day is modest but concrete. You'll build a couple of small LLM-agent prototypes on realistic process-engineering tasks, deliberately break them to see where they fail, and leave with enough intuition to evaluate claims about this technology rather than take them on trust.
You don't need deep Python experience or prior exposure to LLMs. The morning sessions cover the necessary background, and the afternoon exercises are designed to be completed collaboratively. Observers are welcome — code if you like, watch if you prefer.
The code and datasets will also live on a dedicated GitHub repository once it's published
(tentatively github.com/daisubc/ifac2026-workshop) — the link here will update
automatically when the repo goes live.
Placeholder entries below — they'll turn into live download / Colab links when the repository is published. Bookmark this page and re-visit on the morning of the workshop.
Prompt a model to interpret a simplified P&ID and critique its control structure suggestions.
Coming soonCombine an LLM with tool calls to query sensor data and search maintenance logs.
Coming soonNumerical reasoning errors, hallucinated equipment names, overconfident recommendations.
Coming soonCovers LLM and agent fundamentals, Application I (Process Design), Application II (Simulation).
Coming soonAutonomous Control & Fault Diagnosis, research-priorities synthesis.
Coming soonSmall curated datasets used across the three hands-on exercises.
Coming soonFull source for notebooks, data, and environment setup will live here. The repository is being prepared; the link will go live ahead of the workshop.
A short, focused list if you'd like to prime yourself before the workshop. All are linked directly to arXiv or publisher copies.
Questions before the workshop? Email bhushan.gopaluni@ubc.ca.