Keynotes

Irina Shklovski is Professor of Communication and Computing in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen. She also holds a WASP-HS visiting professorship in the Department of Thematic Studies, Gender Studies at Linköping University, where she leads the Operationalising Ethics for AI project. Her main research areas include speculative AI futures, responsible and ethical technology design, information privacy, creepy technologies and the sense of powerlessness people experience in the face of massive personal data collection. Current projects explore topics such as data quality, synthetic data, explainable AI, and evidence of moral stress among technologists resulting from efforts to design and develop AI systems responsibly. Her prior work focused on crisis response and recovery, mediated communication, population mobility, and war-time technology use. More Information.

Lucie Flek is a full professor at the University of Bonn, leading the Data Science and Language Technologies group. Her main interests lie in machine learning research for natural language processing (NLP), including AI robustness and safety. The application areas range from large language models and conversational systems, across clinical NLP and mental health research, to misinformation detection and social media analyses. Prof. Flek has been active both in academia and industry – she used to manage natural language understanding research programs in Amazon Alexa and contributed to the Google Shopping Search launch in Europe. Her academic work at the University of Pennsylvania and University College London revolved around user modeling from text, and its applications in psychology and social sciences. Her PhD at TU Darmstadt focused on meaning ambiguity, incorporating expert lexical-semantic resources into DNN classification tasks. She has served as Area Chair for Computational Social Sciences at numerous ACL* conferences, and as an editor of the NLP section of multiple AI journals. Before her career path in natural language processing, Prof. Flek has been contributing to particle physics research at CERN in the area of axion searches. More Information

Daniele Quercia is Director of Responsible AI at Nokia Bell Labs Cambridge (UK) and Professor of Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Torino. He has been named one of Fortune magazine’s 2014 Data All-Stars, and spoke about “happy maps” at TED. He was Research Scientist at Yahoo Labs, a Horizon senior researcher at the University of Cambridge, and Postdoctoral Associate at the department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. He received his PhD from UC London. More Information