Invited keynote speakers
V. S. Subrahmanian
is the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science at the McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University and Buffett Faculty Fellow at the Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. He is also the head of the Northwestern Security and AI Laboratory (NSAIL). Prior to this, he was The Dartmouth College Distinguished Professor in Cybersecurity, Technology, and Society at Dartmouth College, and tenured Professor in the University of Maryland’s Computer Science Department, and Director of the University of Maryland’s Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. His work stands at\\ the intersection of data-driven AI for increased security, policy, and business needs. His keynote speech will be on AI and security problems.
Fosca Giannotti
is a pioneering scientist in mobility data mining, social network analysis, and privacy-preserving data mining. Fosca leads the Pisa KDD Lab – Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Laboratory, a joint research initiative of the University of Pisa and ISTI-CNR. Fosca’s research focus is on social mining from big data: smart cities, human dynamics, social and economic networks, ethics and trust, diffusion of innovations. Her keynote speech will be on Explainable AI and LLMs.
Francesco Bonchi
is Co-Founder and Research Director at Centai (Center for Artificial Intelligence) research center in Turin, Italy. Earlier he was Scientific Director at the ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy, and Director of Research at Yahoo Labs in Barcelona, Spain. His keynote speech will be on Fairness and Radicalization.
Domenico Talia
is a full professor of computer engineering at the University of Calabria, Italy and an Honorary Professor at Noida University, India. He is a co-founder of the start-up DtoK Lab. His research interests include Big Data analysis, high-performance computing, parallel and distributed algorithms, Cloud computing, distributed machine learning, social data analysis, and parallel programming models and languages. He has published 9 books and more than 500 papers in archival journals such as Communications of the ACM, IEEE TPDS, IEEE Computer, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TSE, IEEE TSMC-A, IEEE TSMC-B, IEEE Micro, ACM Computing Surveys, FGCS, Parallel Computing, IEEE Internet Computing, and highly reputed conference proceedings. He is a member of the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Computer, ACM Computing Surveys, the Future Generation Computer Systems journal, and other archival journals. He was guest editor of special issues of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Parallel Computing, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, and Future Generation Computer Systems, and served as a program chair or program committee member of several international conferences. He is a Senior member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society. His keynote speech will be on Fake News Detection.
Giovanni Da San Martino
is a Professor at the University of Padova, Italy. His research interests are at the intersection of machine learning and natural language processing. He has been researching for 10+ years on these topics, publishing more than 60 publications in top-tier conferences and journals. He has worked on several NLP tasks including paraphrase recognition and stance detection and community question answering. Currently, he is actively involved in research on disinformation and propaganda detection. His keynote speech will be on Online Disinformation and Propaganda.
Rita Cucchiara
is a professor of “Computer Engineering and Science” at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria “Enzo Ferrari” (DIEF) at the UNIMORE, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy. She is Director of the Artificial Intelligence Research and Innovation Center AIRI (ex Softech-ICT) of the Modena Technopole co-funded by the Emilia Romagna High Technology Network, under EU FESR programs, an Interdepartmental Center of Research of UNIMORE. She is Director of the ELLIS Unit of Modena; ELLIS is the Euoropean Labs of Learning and Intelligent Systems and coordinates the Research Lab AImagleab, active in Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Multimedia within Dipartimento di Ingegneria “Enzo Ferrari”, comprehending more than 40 researchers and Phd Students and the industrial research activities in AI for UNIMORE. She is Coordinator of the UNIMORE Unit of the National Phd School in AI for Society. In 2016-2018, she was President of the Italian Association of Pattern Recognition, Learning and Computer vision CVPL, affiliated to IAPR, and in 2018-2021 she was Director of the CINI AIIS Lab The Lab of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems of CINI. She is since 2015 an Advisory Board Member of the Computer Vision Foundation, CVF as PC of ICCV2017 and GC of CVPR2024 and is in the European Computer Vision Alliance Governing board as GC of ECCV2022; since 2017 in the board of Directors of Italian Institute of Technology. She is now member of Board of Directtors of ART-ER and Prometeia spa. Since 2022 is also affiliated with IIT-CNR. Her keynote speech will be on AI and Computer Vision.