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!!AI Challenges for European Research and Academia
__Venue:__  Imperial College, Lecture Theatre 311, Huxley Bldg. 3rd Floor, ICL, 180 Queens Gate, London SW7\\
__Date:__ 4-5 Sep. 2024
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__In 2023, the Academia Europaea Board decided he creation of an interdisciplinary Task Force on AI (AE-TFAI) which will report a summary of recommendations for the European academic milieu and funding agencies, so that they may take the best advantage of recent developments in AI for the benefit of research and education throughout Europe. In the meanwhile, the chair of AE-TFAI also serves as an adviser on AI in "Science 20" (S20) for the forthcoming G20 2024 meeting in Brasilia. Academia Europaea provided input to a recent SAPEA Evidence Review Report on AI in Science, through a set of rapid reviews by its Cardiff Hub. Thus, the Workshop on "''AI Challenges for European Research and Academia''", that will be held at Imperial College on 4-5 Sep. 2024 will survey the main themes of current AI research, with leading speakers from the European Area, China and the USA, including Academia and Industry, to identify the main challenges that need to be addressed in the field. __ 
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__Sponsors:__ __Academia Europaea__ & [CNRS Abraham de Moivre Math. Laboratory|https://www.imperial.ac.uk/abraham-de-moivre], ICL\\
__Co-Sponsor:__ Foundation for Science and Technology, UK \\
__AE Task Force on AI:__ [Erol Gelenbe|Member/Gelenbe_Erol] MAE (Chair), [Guy Brasseur|Member/Brasseur_Guy] MAE, [Schahram Dustdar|Member/Dustdar_Schahram] MAE, [Thomas Eiter|Member/Eiter_Thomas] MAE, Véronique Halloin, Alessandro Lenci  \\
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Organizing Committee:__ 
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Dan Crisan, Maths. Dept., ICL, Erol Gelenbe, Inst. Theoretical & Applied Informatics, Polish Acad. Sci., Federica Pratola, Maths.Dept. ICL
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!!Preliminary Program

__Wednesday Sep 4, 2024__ 
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__10.00am Welcome__
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__10.10am - 11.30 Introduction__
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*__10.10 - 10.50__ Eric Xing, President MBZUAI “''Toward public and reproducible foundation models beyond lingual and visual intelligence: How a young university helps lead a young country in the premier league of global AI''” 
*__10.50 - 11.30__ __Zeina Zakhour__, CTO Global Security Eviden/ATOS, “''Interdisciplinary Perspectives on AI for Cybersecurity & Security for AI''” 
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__11.30 - 12.30 Brain Modeling__
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*__Samuel Deslauriers-Gauthier__, INRIA, “''Modeling the Brain Connectome''”
*__Dan Farina__, ICL “''Mapping Brain and Spinal Sensorimotor Activity''”
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__12.30am - 1.15pm Lunch__
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__1.15pm - 3.15pm Machine Learning I__
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*[Yonina Eldar|Member/Eldar_Yonina] MAE, FAcad.Sci.Israel, Weizmann Institute “''Model-based Deep Learning''”
*__Eric Moulines__ FAcadSci Fr, Ecole Polytechnique “''Bayesian inverse problems with denoising diffusion model''”
*[Marco di Renzo|Member/Di_Renzo_Marco] MAE, CNRS, Centrale Supelec “''Smart Metasurfaces for Communications''”
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__3.15pm - 3.30pm Coffee Break__
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__3.30pm - 6.30pm Machine Learning II__
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*[Louis Wehenkel|Member/Wehenkel_Louis] MAE, Liège Univ. “''Physics informed ML  for bulk electric power systems''”
*__Tolga Birdal__, ICL “''Topological Deep Learning: Beyond Graph Data''”
*__Ekin Dogus Cubuk__, Google DeepMind  “''Scaling up computational materials discovery via deep learning''”
*[Erol Gelenbe|Member/Gelenbe_Erol] MAE FNATF RoyAcad Be, IITIS & KCL ”''Wave Equation for Quantum Neural Networks''”
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__6.00 - 7.00__ __Panel: Technical Challenges for Machine Learning__  \\
__Yonina Eldar, Erol Gelenbe, Iryna Gurevych, Zeina Zakhour __
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__7.30 pm Dinner for Speakers and Organizers at Ogniesko (Exhibition Road)__
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!Thursday Sep 5, 2024

__9.30am - 10.30am AI in Cybersecurity, Trust and Privacy__
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*__Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye__, ICL “''Computational Privacy and AI''”
*__Zheng Yan__, Xidan University “''AI-empowered Trust and Trust-controlled AI''”
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__10.30am - 10.45am Coffee Break__
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__10.45am - 12.00am Research on Language Technology__
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*__Iryna  Gurevych__, TU Darmstadt,  “''How to InterText? Modeling Text as a Living Object in Context''”
*__Anna Korhonen__, University Cambridge “''Towards globally equitable language technologies''” 
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12.00am - 12.45am Lunch Break__
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__12.45am - 3.00pm AI in Healthcare__
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*__Benoît Macq__ RoyAcad Be, Louvain University “''Coalitional Learning for Healthcare''”
*__Payam Barnaghi__, ICL, “''AI for Personalized Healthcare Alerts''”
*__James Cole__, UCL “''AI in the Analysis of Brain Ageing''” 
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__3.00pm - 3.15pm Coffee Break__
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__3.15pm - 6.15pm AI in Engineering__
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*__Helen Li__, Duke University “''Efficient Machine Learning: Algorithm-Hardware Co-design''”
*__Alexandra Brintrup__, Cambridge University , “''Explainable AI for Supply Chains''”
*__Eiman Kanjo__, Nottingham Trent University & ICL “''Tiny ML''” 
*__Emmanouil Spyrakos__, KCL “''Interchangeability of AI and Control Theory for Robot Control''”

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Download the preliminary [programme|AE AI Workshop Program_20240814.pdf] (updated 14%%sup th/% August 2024)
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