|
|
|
Teaching staffAndrea Asperti was born in Bergamo, Italy, in 1961. He earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pisa in 1989. Throughout his career, he has held various positions, including working at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and INRIA-Rocquencourt. Currently, he serves as a full professor of Machine Learning and Deep Learning at the University of Bologna. From 2005 to 2007, he held the position of Director of the Department of Computer Science. From 2000 to 2007, he was a member of the Advisory Committee of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). He is author of hundreds of publications in international peer reviewed journals and conferences, and several books. Over time, he has coordinated many National and European projects. His recent research interests revolve around Deep Learning, Generative AI, Creativity, Mulitmedia, Deep Reinforcement Learning. He presently represents the University of Bologna for the area of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence within the UnaEuropa Consortium. *** Brodbeck & de Barbuat (Simon Brodbeck and Lucie de Barbuat) are a Franco-German artist duo based in Paris. Since 2005, their projects have taken the form of ensembles that question the history of photography and the representation of reality in contemporary images. Inspired by beliefs linked to the mystery of the soul, their work captures Man’s silent melancholy in different ways, highlighting the gap between his existence and the world of dreams. Fellows of the Villa Medici, French Academy in Rome from 2016 to 2017, they are graduates of the École nationale supérieure de la Photographie in Arles, and the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales in Paris. Winners of the national photographic commission « Image 3.0 » in partnership with the Jeu de Paume and the Cnap national collections in 2021, they were awarded the Prix Jeune création 2013, the HSBC Award for Photography in 2010 and the Nestlé prize at the Festival Images Vevey 2010. Their work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Fotomuseum in Antwerp, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, the Villa Médicis in Rome and the Institut français du Japon, and group exhibitions including the Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles, the Arsenale in Venice, the Cairo Biennale, the Saatchi gallery in London, the Museum of Photography in Thessaloniki and the Mucem in Marseille, among others. *** Jim Gabaret is a philosopher and research associate at the Sorbonne's Centre de Philosophie Contemporaine (Paris 1 University). He is the author of a thesis on The permanence of objects, translations of the pragmatist corpus, and articles on “new realism”, phenomenology of art and generative AI. His book L'art des IA will be published by PUF in September 2025. *** Borja Jaume Perez is a Digital artist and PhD in Fine Arts. His lines of work focus on experimental drawing and new technologies in the artistic field, focusing his interests in the context of artificial intelligence, virtual, augmented and mixed reality as part of his research “The meta-illusion. Optical illusions in artistic practice through extended reality”. He also develops projects with free software tools in educational contexts through creative processes. He has participated in exhibitions, seminars, conferences and congresses at national and international level analyzing the artistic possibilities offered by the use of XR tools. *** Since 1998, Prof. Mark Keane has been Chair of Computer Science at University College Dublin. He has a BA (University College Dublin) in Psychology and PhD (Trinity College Dublin) in Cognitive Psychology having previously worked in University of London, the Open University, Cardiff University and Trinity College Dublin (FTCD, 1994). He has published 200+ articles, including over 20 books. His work in Cognitive Science is concerned with how people manage to produce new ideas from old knowledge (using analogy, concept combination, metaphor) and how they deal with things they don't know or expect (surprise, unexpectedness). His Artificial Intelligence work has been on text analytics, case-based reasoning and explainable AI. His most recent course called “Artificial versus Human Intelligence” is an extended expose of the things that people can do, that LLMs can’t. *** Alberto Naibo is an Associate Professor of Logic in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. His research and publications focus on the notion of proof in the formal sciences (logic, mathematics, theoretical computer science), and on its connections with related concepts such as construction, computation, verification, and algorithm. His teaching includes courses in philosophy and computer science, approached from the perspective of their logical and epistemological foundations. *** Arianna Novaro (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France) is Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a researcher at the Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne since September 2021. She works in the field of collective decision-making in multi-agent systems, and, more precisely, in the domain of computational social choice. In particular, she studies computational complexity problems and axiomatisations for decision-making algorithms, as well as the strategic behavior of the agents. She regularly publishes in the proceedings of the main international conferences in Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agent Systems. *** Antonio Somaini is professor of film, media, and visual culture theory at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. He is also a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), working on a research project on the impact of AI technologies on images, visual culture and contemporary artistic practices. He is the chief curator of the exhibition Le monde selon l'IA / The World Through AI at the Jeu de Paume museum in Paris (11 April - 21 September 2025). Among his latest publications, the essays “Algorithmic Images: Artificial Intelligence and Visual Culture” (Grey Room 93, Fall 2023) and “A Theory of Latent Spaces” in the catalogue of the Jeu de Paume exhibition. *** Tony Veale is a researcher and teacher with broad international experience in the theory, practice and effective communication of Computational Creativity (CC). For three decades he has worked on CC-related topics in industry and academia, and in a range of international settings and institutions. He began his career at the Hitachi laboratory in Dublin, where he led their efforts on metaphor interpretation and sign-language translation. He later contributed to the CYC project in Austin, Texas, and served as chief scientist at COREIntellect in Dallas. As an academic at University College Dublin, he designed a syllabus for a joint international degree in software engineering at Fudan University, Shanghai, where he was a visiting professor from UCD for 12 years (one term per year). He has also been a visiting professor at KAIST, the Korean Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (2011-2013), where he contributed to its World Class University programme, and at Finland’s University of Helsinki, where he taught CC at a graduate level. He led the European commission’s PROSECCO coordination action to Promote the Scientific Exploration of Computational Creativity, which worked to develop CC into a mature discipline, and recently served as the chair of the association for computational creativity (ACC). He has published numerous articles on machine creativity, edited several collected volumes and special issues, and is the author or co-author of multiple books in the area, from 2012’s Exploding the Creativity Myth (Bloomsbury) to 2018’s Twitterbots: Making Machines That Make Meaning (MIT Press, with Mike Cook). His most recent book, Your Wit Is My Command: Building AIs With A Sense of Humor, was published by MIT Press in 2021. *** Tuomas Vesterinen is a philosopher of science specialized in psychiatry and the ethics of artificial intelligence, with additional interests in the philosophy of mind and anthropology. He is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, where his research focuses on the ethical and social questions related to the employment of artificial intelligence in psychiatry and mental healthcare. Tuomas has also conducted fieldwork in Italy on clinical practice and in West Africa on conceptions of health and disease. At Stanford, Tuomas is affiliated with the Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research (SCANCOR) and the anthropology department. He is a collaborator at the Stanford Mental Health Technology and Innovation Hub and has participated in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences research project on mental health and AI. Tuomas is also a member of the Robophilosophy, AI Ethics, and Datafication (RADAR) research group and the Centre for Philosophy of Social Science (TINT) at the University of Helsinki. *** Serena Villata is Research Director at CNRS. She is a research fellow of the Institut 3IA Côte d'Azur since 2019 and the Deputy Scientific Director of the institute since 2021. She is the head of the MARIANNE research team at Inria. In November 2021, she has been awarded with the Prix "Jeunes chercheurs et jeunes chercheuses" from Inria – Académie des Sciences. She received in 2010 the Ph.D. degree from the University of Turin (Italy) for her work on computational argumentation in Artificial Intelligence. Her research area is Artificial Intelligence (AI), and her current work focuses on computational argumentation, with a specific focus on legal and medical texts, political debates and social network harmful content (abusive language, disinformation). From 2019 to 2024, she has been a member of the French National Pilot Committee for Digital Ethics (CNPEN). *** Żaneta Żegleń is PhD. Assistant Professor at the Jagiellonian University Museum and project coordinator of IMPULSE: IMmersive digitisation: uPcycling cULtural heritage towards new reviving StratEgies (HE 101132704). She drives innovation in public institutions, focusing on the intersection of culture, cultural heritage, creativity, data, and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and virtual worlds. Her work empowers the dialogue between the arts, humanities, and digital transformation. Member of several expert groups, including Una Europa Self-Steering Committee for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, she actively contributes to shaping interdisciplinary approaches to research and policy. Poet, performer, and photographer, she explores creativity across both analogue and digital landscapes. *** Célia Zolynski is Professor of Law at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her research and teaching activities focus on Digital law, Intellectual Property law, Market law and Fundamental rights. She is the author of various publications on these topics and leads several research projects about regulation of online platforms and algorithmic systems promoting multidisciplinary researches. |
