{"id":45,"date":"2022-09-26T13:21:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T13:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eannconf.org\/2025\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2025-06-13T17:06:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T15:06:29","slug":"keynote-speakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eannconf.org\/2025\/keynote-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynote Speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"45\" class=\"elementor elementor-45\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-9a820e3 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"9a820e3\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d80057c\" data-id=\"d80057c\" 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Polycarpou<\/h4>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6d60600 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6d60600\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.15.0 - 20-08-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus <br \/>Advisory Board Chair, KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence <br \/>Honorary Professor of Imperial College London, U.K. <br \/>Member of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts <br \/>Member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe)<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-58d3d46 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"58d3d46\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><\/strong><strong>Title:\u00a0<\/strong>Connecting AI to the Cyber-Physical World<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-600c49f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"600c49f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><\/strong><strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong>The development of cyber-physical systems with multiple sensor\/actuator components and feedback loops has given rise to advanced automation applications, including energy and power, intelligent transportation, water systems, manufacturing, etc. Traditionally, feedback control has focused on enhancing the tracking and robustness performance of the closed-loop system; however, as cyber-physical systems become more complex and interconnected and more interdependent, there is a need to refocus our attention not only on performance but also on the resilience of cyber-physical systems. In situations of unexpected events and faults, computational intelligence can play a key role in improving the fault tolerance of cyber-physical systems and preventing serious degradation or a catastrophic system failure. The goal of this presentation is to provide insight into the design and analysis of intelligent monitoring methods for cyber-physical systems, which will ultimately lead to more resilient societies.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e3b18fd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e3b18fd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Short Bio:\u00a0<\/strong>Marios Polycarpou is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the President of the Advisory Board of the <em>KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence<\/em> at the University of Cyprus. He is also a Founding Member of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts, an Honorary Professor of Imperial College London, and a Member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe).\u00a0 He received the B.A degree in Computer Science and the B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, both from Rice University, USA in 1987, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, in 1989 and 1992 respectively. His teaching and research interests are in intelligent systems and networks, adaptive and learning control systems, fault diagnosis, machine learning, and critical infrastructure systems.<\/p><p>Prof. Polycarpou is the recipient of the <em>2023 IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Technical Field Award<\/em> and the <em>2016 IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award<\/em>. He is a Fellow of IEEE and IFAC. He served as the President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2012-2013), as the President of the European Control Association (2017-2019), and as the Editor-in-Chief of the <em>IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems<\/em> (2004-2010). Prof. Polycarpou currently serves on the Editorial Boards of the <em>Proceedings of the IEEE<\/em> and the <em>Annual Reviews in Control<\/em>. His research work has been funded by several agencies and industry in Europe and the United States, including the prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant, the ERC Synergy Grant and the EU-Widening Teaming program.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-afdf257 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"afdf257\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9ff94d6\" data-id=\"9ff94d6\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-385b30f 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\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9ceb4bf\" data-id=\"9ceb4bf\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1a67206 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"1a67206\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Professor Massimo Mecella<\/h4>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7599928 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7599928\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span>School of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Statistics of Sapienza Universita di Roma, in the Department of Computer, Control and Management Sciences &amp; Engineering ANTONIO RUBERTI (DIAG, formerly DIS &#8211; Department of Computer and Systems Sciences)<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-29b017e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"29b017e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Title:\u00a0<\/strong>Engineering Information Systems and Smart Applications with LLMs<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f0ed5e1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f0ed5e1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong>The current evolution of AI, and of Generative AI in particular, namely Large Language Models (LLMs), makes it possible to adopt them as supporting tools for the engineering of information systems, in particular for their design and development based on service-based approaches and business-process orientation. In this keynote we will present, with an IS engineering attitude, recent approaches and applications for LLMs&#8217; usage during the design of information systems. Very recent works (in the last year) are emerging on how to use ChatGPT (one of the most widespread applications of LLMs) for the conceptual design, the software development, and extraction of business process specification from documents. But all of them are quite fragmented, and a unifying framework and pipeline is missing. We will also provide such a unifying principled view. Case studies, based on the presenters\u2019 research activities, will be presented, and a systematic analysis of the literature and practice will be presented as well.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b80f3c1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b80f3c1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><\/strong><strong>Short Bio:\u00a0<\/strong>Massimo Mecella, PhD in Engineering in Computer Science, is a full professor at Sapienza, where he is conducting research in the fields of information systems engineering, software architectures, distributed middleware and service oriented computing, mobile and pervasive computing, process management, data and process mining, big data analytics, advanced interfaces and human-computer interaction, focusing on smart applications, environments and communities. He is author of about 250 papers (h-index 42, cf.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=x844E6sAAAAJ\">https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=x844E6sAAAAJ<\/a>). He has been\/is currently involved in several European and Italian research projects, and has been the technical manager of the projects WORKPAD and SM4All, coordinated by Sapienza.<br \/>He has a large experience in organizing scientific events. He was the General Chair of CAiSE 2019, BPM 2021, and ICSOC 2023 in Rome (just to name the last ones). He sits in the Steering Committees of the conference series CAiSE, ICSOC, Intelligent Environments (IE), AVI (Advanced Visual Interfaces), and SummerSOC. Currently, he is the vice-director of the the BSc in Engineering in Computer and Control Sciences, the MSc in Engineering in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, and the MSc in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics offered by Sapienza. He was director of the above degrees for the period 2020 \u2013 2023.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-054900f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"054900f\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-31ae04a\" data-id=\"31ae04a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aac1e4a elementor-widget-divider--view-line_icon elementor-view-default elementor-widget-divider--element-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" 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data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Title:\u00a0<\/strong>Collectionless AI and Nature-Inspired Learning<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-accabba elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"accabba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong>AI is revolutionizing not only the entire field of Computer Science, but nearly all fields of Science. However, while application contexts explode and LLMs display embarrassing cognitive qualities, the entire AI research field seems headed toward saturation of the fundamental ideas that have enabled today\u2019s spectacular results of large companies. Is the infamous \u201cAI winter\u201d perhaps creeping into research? In this talk I argue that the time is ripe for a fundamental rethinking of AI methodologies with the purpose to migrate intelligence from the cloud to the growing global population of devices with on-board CPUs.<\/p><p>To support learning schemes inspired by mechanisms found in nature, I propose developing intelligent systems within NARNIAN, a platform that enables social mechanisms and fosters learning processes over time, without the need for data storage.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9981048 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9981048\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Short Bio:\u00a0<\/strong>Marco Gori received the Ph.D. degree in 1990 from Universit\u00e0 di Bologna, Italy, working partly at the School of Computer Science (McGill University, Montreal). He is currently full professor computer science at the University of Siena, where he is leading the Siena Artificial Intelli\u0002gence Lab. He is mostly interested in Machine Learning with emphasis on Neural Computation.Since, the end of 2019, He has also been collaborating with the Interdisciplinary Institutes for Artificial Intelligence, 3IA C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur.<\/p><p>The impact of his research on neural networks emerged mainly from the growing interest in Graph Neural Networks. He introduced the first ideas in the paper \u201cA New Model for Learning in Graph Domains\u201d, by M. Gori, M. Monfardini and F. Scarselli (IJCNN2005) where the keyword Graph Neural Network was coined. A few years later, an extended paper \u201cGraph Neural Networks,\u201d IEEE-TNN, 2009 provided a more robust analysis and an accurate experimental evaluation. To date, the paper has received more than 10,000 citations (about 6-7 citations\/day in the last months).<\/p><p>Professor Gori has been the chair of the Italian Chapter of the IEEE Computation Intelligence Society and the President of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence. He is a Fellow of IEEE, EurAI, IAPR, and ELLIS<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-aec8fea elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"aec8fea\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-907f0eb\" data-id=\"907f0eb\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4c0c1ef elementor-widget-divider--view-line_icon elementor-view-default elementor-widget-divider--element-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"4c0c1ef\" 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src=\"https:\/\/eannconf.org\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/avatar_scholar_128-1.png\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" class=\"elementor-animation-grow\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-af4a3cc\" data-id=\"af4a3cc\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c7f800c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c7f800c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Professor John Soldatos<\/h4>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b882fbe elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b882fbe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Glasgow, UK<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-570e238 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"570e238\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Title:\u00a0<\/strong>From Language Models to Autonomous Agents: Evolutionary Trajectories and Industrial Transformations in AI-Driven Systems<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dbfbded elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"dbfbded\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong>The rapid evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI agents is currently redefining the boundaries of AI: It enables unprecedented automation and decision-making capabilities in complex domains. This talk examines the architectural and algorithmic milestones in LLM development, from transformer-based foundations to today\u2019s multi-agent frameworks which are capable of collaborative reasoning.<\/p><p>Drawing on case studies in finance (e.g., real-time risk assessment, stock selection) and industrial automation (e.g., asset maintenance, industrial training, and human-robot collaboration), the talk highlights how LLMs transition from passive tools to proactive, context-aware agents. The practical contributions of the talk include novel architectures for solving complex problems with LLMs and AI agents, while considering the need for ethical governance frameworks to address bias, transparency, and accountability.<\/p><p>The presentation concludes with a presentation of emerging challenges\u2014such as energy efficiency, domain adaptability, and trust calibration\u2014while proposing interdisciplinary pathways to bridge theoretical AI advancements with industrial scalability.Overall, this keynote will synthesize empirical results from EU-funded projects (e.g., XR5.0, HumAIne, MOSAICO) and industry partnerships in order to introduce ideas for engineering robust, ethically grounded AI systems for the next decade.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4d668f0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4d668f0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Short Bio:\u00a0<\/strong>John Soldatos holds a PhD in Electrical &amp; Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (2000) and is Senior R&amp;D Consultant and Innovation Delivery Specialist with INTRASOFT International (2020-present) and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow, UK (2014-present). He was a Professor and Head of the Internet of Things (IoT) Group at the Athens Information Technology (AIT), Greece (2006\u20132019), and Adjunct Professor at the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (2007\u20132010). He has experience in working closely with various large multi-national industries as R&amp;D consultant, while being partner and scientific advisor to high-tech startups. He has played a leading role in the delivery of more than 70 (industrial, R&amp;D, consulting) projects, for both private &amp; public sector organizations.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f5ebe99 elementor-section-stretched elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"f5ebe99\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-dd770ab\" data-id=\"dd770ab\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d967c11 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"d967c11\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"275\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/eannconf.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/11\/Plamen-Angelov.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-668\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eannconf.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/11\/Plamen-Angelov.jpg 275w, https:\/\/eannconf.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/11\/Plamen-Angelov-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5c7fe32 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"5c7fe32\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.co.uk\/citations?user=CCW8PwkAAAAJ&#038;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/eannconf.org\/2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/avatar_scholar_128-1.png\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" class=\"elementor-animation-grow\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-eb4cab5\" data-id=\"eb4cab5\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f456e76 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f456e76\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Professor Plamen Angelov<\/h4>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-38a6909 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"38a6909\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Lancaster University, UK<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-70ff4ef elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"70ff4ef\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Title:\u00a0<\/strong>Interpretable-by-design prototype-based deep learning<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e3237c7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e3237c7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong>Deep Learning justifiably attracted the attention and interest of the scientific community and industry as well as of the wider society and even policy makers. However, the predominant architectures (from Convolutional Neural Networks to Transformers) are hyper-parametric models with weights\/parameters being detached from the physical meaning of the object of modelling. They are, essentially, embedded functions of functions which do provide the power of deep learning; however, they are also the main reason of diminished transparency and difficulties in explaining and interpreting the decisions made by deep neural network classifiers. Some dub this \u201cblack box\u201d approach. This makes problematic the use of such algorithms in high stake complex problems such as aviation, health, bailing from jail, etc. where the clear rationale for a particular decision is very important and the errors are very costly. This motivated researchers and regulators to focus efforts on the quest for \u201cexplainable\u201d yet highly efficient models. Most of the solutions proposed in this direction so far are, however, post-hoc and only partially addressing the problem. At the same time, it is remarkable that humans learn in a principally different manner (by examples, using similarities) and not by fitting (hyper-) parametric models, and can easily perform the so-called \u201czero-shot learning\u201d. Current deep learning is focused primarily on accuracy and overlooks explainability, the semantic meaning of the internal model representation, reasoning and decision making, and its link with the specific problem domain. Once trained, such models are inflexible to new knowledge. They cannot dynamically evolve their internal structure to start recognising new classes. They are good only for what they were originally trained for. The empirical results achieved by these types of methods according to Terry Sejnowski \u201cshould not be possible according to sample complexity in statistics and nonconvex optimization theory\u201d. The challenge is to bring together the high levels of accuracy with the semantically meaningful and theoretically sound and provable solutions.<\/p><p>All these challenges and identified gaps require a dramatic paradigm shift and a radical new approach. In this talk, the speaker will present such a new approach towards the next generation of explainable-by-design deep learning. It is based on prototypes and uses kernel-like functions making it interpretable-by-design. It is dramatically easier to train and adapt without the need for complete re-training, can start learning from few training data samples, explore the data space, detect and learn from unseen data patterns. Indeed, the ability to detect the unseen and unexpected and start learning this new class\/es in real time with no or very little supervision is critically important and is something that no currently existing classifier can offer. This method was applied to a range of applications including but not limited to remote sensing, autonomous driving, health and others.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6663520 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6663520\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><\/strong><strong>Short Bio:\u00a0<\/strong>Professor Plamen Angelov holds a Chair in Intelligent Systems and is <strong>Director of Research<\/strong> at the School of Computing and Communications. He is founding <strong>Director of the<\/strong> <strong>Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous systems (LIRA) Centre<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/lira\">www.lancaster.ac.uk\/lira<\/a> ) which brings together 70+ academics\/faculty across 15 Departments of the University. Prof. Angelov is a Fellow of the IEEE, of the IET and of ELLIS (<a href=\"https:\/\/ellis.eu\">https:\/\/ellis.eu<\/a>) and a Governor of the International Neural Networks Society (INNS) for which he also served two consecutive terms as Vice President (2017-2020). He has over <strong>350 publications in leading journals<\/strong> (like TPAMI, Information Fusion, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, on Fuzzy Systems, etc.), peer-reviewed conference proceedings (such as CVPR, IEEE), 3 granted US patents, 3 research monographs (by Wiley, 2012 and Springer, 2002 and 2018) <strong>cited over 12800 times<\/strong> with an <strong>h-index of 60<\/strong>. He has an active research portfolio in the area of interpretable (explainable-by-design) deep learning and internationally recognised results into explainable deep learning, evolving systems for streaming data and computational intelligence. Prof. Angelov leads numerous projects funded by UK research councils, EC, European Space Agency, DSTL, GCHQ, Royal Society, Faraday Institute, industry. He is recipient of the Dennis Gabor award (2020) for &#8220;outstanding contributions to engineering applications of neural networks&#8221;, IEEE awards \u2018<strong>For outstanding Services<\/strong>\u2019 (2013 and 2017) and other awards. He is <strong>Editor-in-Chief<\/strong> of Springer\u2019s journal <em>Evolving Systems<\/em> and <strong>Associate Editor<\/strong> of <em><strong>IEEE Transactions on<\/strong><\/em> <em><strong>Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on AI<\/strong><\/em> and other journals. He gave <strong><em>30+<\/em><\/strong> <strong>keynote talks<\/strong> and was General co-Chair of a number of high profile IEEE conferences. He is <strong>founding Chair<\/strong> of the Technical Committee on Evolving Intelligent Systems, SMC Society of the IEEE and was previously chairing the Standards Committee of the Computational Intelligent Society of the IEEE (2010-2012) where he initiated and chaired the Work Group P2976 on the IEEE standard on explainable AI. He is the founding co-Director of one of the funded programmes by ELLIS (on Human-centred machine learning). He was also a member of International Program Committee of over 150 international conferences (primarily IEEE).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8c121f7 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8c121f7\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4d4d8f2\" data-id=\"4d4d8f2\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8ba3425 elementor-widget-divider--view-line_icon 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\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-35bdf94\" data-id=\"35bdf94\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-06cd5a6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"06cd5a6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Professor Oresti Ba\u00f1os Legr\u00e1n <\/h4>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f6d594b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f6d594b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Tenured Professor of Computational Behaviour Modelling, Department of Computer Engineering, Automation and Robotics, Research Centre for Information and Communications Technology, University of Granada, Spain<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-183aaa1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"183aaa1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Title:\u00a0<\/strong>Intelligent mobile sensing for understanding human behaviour.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-445f2cc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"445f2cc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong>Understanding people\u2019s behaviour is essential to characterise patient progress, make treatment decisions and elicit effective and relevant coaching actions. Hence, a great deal of research has been devoted in recent years to the automatic sensing and intelligent analysis of human behaviour. Among all sensing options, smartphones stand out as they enable the unobtrusive observation and detection of a wide variety of behaviours as we go about our physical and virtual interactions with the world. This talk aims at giving the audience a taste of the unparalleled potential that mobile sensing in combination with artificial intelligence offers for the study of human individual and collective behaviour.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ba5d1b8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ba5d1b8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><\/strong><strong>Short Bio:\u00a0<\/strong>Oresti Ba\u00f1os is an Associate Professor of Computational Behaviour Modelling at the University of Granada (Spain, 2019-present). He is also a Senior Research Scientist affiliated with the Centre for Information and Communication Technologies of the University of Granada (CITICUGR). He is a Research Collaborator at the University of Twente (Netherlands, 2018-present). He is a former Assistant Professor of Creative Technology and a Telemedicine Research Scientist at University of Twente (Netherlands, 2016-2018). Here, he worked for the Biomedical Signal and Systems Group (BSS), the Centre for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT), the Research Centre for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine (MIRA), and the Centre for Monitoring and Coaching (CMC). He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Kyung Hee University (South Korea, 2014-2016), a Predoctoral Research Fellow at the CITIC-UGR (Spain, 2010-2014) and a Visiting Scholar at the Technical University of Eindhoven (Netherlands, 2012), the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (Switzerland, 2011), and the University of Alabama (USA, 2011). He holds three Master\u2019s degrees in telecommunications (2009), electrical (2011) and computer networking engineering (2011) and a PhD in computer science (2014), all with honors, from the University of Granada. Most recently, he has been Principal Investigator of the Dutch R&amp;D project HoliBehave, Workpackage Lead of the EU-H2020 project COUCH and Technical Coordinator of the Korean CV date 24\/09\/2019 2 project Mining Minds. He has participated in more than 20 Spanish, Korean, Dutch and FP7\/H2020 European digital health and behavioural computing-related projects such as HPCBIO, AdaBIO, DSIPA-BIO, AmIVital, Symbionics, OPPORTUNITY, XOSOFT, eNHANCE or COUCH. He is author of more than 80 papers, most of them indexed in top-ranked international conferences and journals. He is co-organiser of several digital health workshops such as SUT4Coaching or Health-i-Coach and he is also a member of the organising committee of a number of international conferences including PervasiveHealth, IWBBIO or UCAmI.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-851eb80 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"851eb80\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f0dfe74\" data-id=\"f0dfe74\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-698184c elementor-widget-divider--view-line_icon elementor-view-default elementor-widget-divider--element-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"698184c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon elementor-divider__element\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"far fa-comment\"><\/i><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-90822e2 elementor-section-stretched elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"90822e2\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d797417\" data-id=\"d797417\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3ec0c32 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"3ec0c32\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"241\" height=\"289\" src=\"https:\/\/eannconf.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/Tamara.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-805\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fd22168\" data-id=\"fd22168\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-079fb3d elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"079fb3d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Professor Tamara Silbergleit Lehman<\/h4>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b01f75e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b01f75e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span>Assistant Professor at\u00a0 University of Colorado Boulder<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d5df149 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d5df149\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><\/strong><strong>Title: <\/strong>Secure, Efficient and High Performance Computing: A Computer Architecture Perspective<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f24109b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f24109b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><\/strong><strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong>Distributed systems and new architectures introduce new sets of security risks. Microarchitectural attacks have presented many challenges in the computer architecture community and this talk will present a few of the methods that the Boulder Computer Architecture Lab (BCAL) has been studying in order to address these vulnerabilities. The talk will first introduce physical and microarchitectural attacks and why they are hard to mitigate. Then, the talk will introduce an efficient implementation of speculative integrity verification, Poisonivy, to construct an efficient and high performance secure memory system. Finally, the talk will show how we can leverage emerging memory technologies such as near memory processing to defend and identify microarchitectural side-channel attacks. The talk will end by briefly introducing a new research direction that is investigating the Rowhammer attack impact on neural network accuracy running on GPUs and how we can leverage secure memory to protect the accuracy of the models.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c6b40cd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c6b40cd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><\/strong><strong>Short Bio:\u00a0<\/strong><span>Tamara Silbergleit Lehman is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering Department. She also holds a courtesy appointment in the Computer Science department. She is a member of the Colorado Research Center for Democracy and Technology. Her work focuses on all aspects of computer security from the hardware perspective. Her research interests span a wide array of topics on the intersection of computer architecture and security. Before doing her PhD, she completed a Masters of Engineering degree at Duke University in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Florida in Industrial and Systems Engineering. She is passionate about computer architecture, and her industrial engineering background gives her a new perspective on ways to optimize systems. She also enjoys working on the security space because it is one of the most challenging problems facing the computer industry. At the heart of most computer security challenges is people. Computers do what they are designed to do, but it is the people who re-define the system\u2019s functionality. She strongly believes that secure systems should not rely on people writing correct code, or running well-intended applications, but instead having well defined functionality with well defined side-effects. In addition, her research is guided by the principle that all computers should be secure and efficient. Systems should not have to sacrifice efficiency for security.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b7b1122 elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b7b1122\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fe1ee08\" data-id=\"fe1ee08\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-391bd0f elementor-widget-divider--view-line_icon elementor-view-default elementor-widget-divider--element-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"391bd0f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-icon elementor-divider__element\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"far fa-comment\"><\/i><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c5f00c0 elementor-section-stretched elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c5f00c0\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-05a44da\" data-id=\"05a44da\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f559a41 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"f559a41\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"435\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/eannconf.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/Javier-Alonso-Lopez.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-875\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eannconf.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/Javier-Alonso-Lopez.png 435w, https:\/\/eannconf.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/Javier-Alonso-Lopez-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/eannconf.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/Javier-Alonso-Lopez-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e7fced9\" data-id=\"e7fced9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5a79da3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5a79da3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Dr. Javier Alonso Lopez<\/h4>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-273a1c1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"273a1c1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Principal Machine Learning Applied Scientist Microsoft AI Platform &#8211; Microsoft OpenAI<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ed1312e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ed1312e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Title:\u00a0<\/strong>How AI\/Machine Learning has the power of revolutionizing (for good?) cybersecurity?<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f4eef61 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f4eef61\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong>As we already know, Machine Learning is already used in various cybersecurity tasks such as malware identification\/classification, intrusion detection, botnet identification, phishing, predicting cyberattacks like denial of service, fraud detection, etc. However, during the last years there has been a revolution of machine learning, specifically, deep learning that creates not only an unbelievable opportunity to develop more effective solutions but also represents a new threat and a new tool to be used to attack and gain control over systems, organizations and even countries.<br \/>In this talk, we will overview the major applications of Machine Learning in the field of cybersecurity both to prevent attacks but also how Machine learning can be used to pose a threat. We will review the main advances of Deep Learning in the last 5 years and their application into Cybersecurity. Finally, we will discuss the possible future trends we can expect (I do not expect a high accuracy, but high recall :D) in the intersection of Deep Learning and Cybersecurity.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7a8153e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7a8153e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><\/strong><strong>Short Bio:\u00a0<\/strong>Dr. Javier Alonso received his master\u2019s degree in Computer Science degree and his Ph.D. degree from the Technical University of Catalonia (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, UPC) in 2004 and 2011, respectively. From 2006 to 2011, he held an assistant lecturer position in the Computer Architecture Department of UPC. From 2011 to 2015 he held a Postdoctoral Associate position and later Research Assistant Professor at the RIASC Lab led by Professor K.S. Trivedi, in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. From 2015 to 2016 he was leading the research at the just created Research Institute of Applied Sciences in Cybersecurity as acting research director at the University of Leon, Spain. After academia, Dr. Alonso decided to move to industry and joined Amazon as a Senior Machine Learning scientist working in a myriad of verticals applying Machine and Deep Learning in diverse fields like e-commerce, drone delivery program (8+ US Patents) and transportation. After almost 7 years at Amazon, in 2023 Dr. Alonso joined Microsoft AI platform organization as Principal Machine Learning Applied Scientist to work on Microsoft OpenAI initiative helping Microsoft customers to adopt OpenAI Large Language Models (LLMs).<br \/>During his career, Dr. Alonso has published 40+ papers about different aspects of applied Machine learning to areas like dependability, performance, cybersecurity, geospatial and path planning just naming a few. He has filed 10+ US Patents (6 already granted) in the intersection between Deep Learning, geospatial and Drones. He has also contributed to the adoption of Machine Learning across different roles at Amazon as being one of the first instructors at the Amazon Machine Learning University. He has also served as a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Dependability and Security Computing, Performance Evaluation, and Cluster Computing, and several IEEE and ACM international conferences. During his career Dr. Alonso has been involved in multiple research and applied projects founded by organizations like NASA, JPL\/NASA, NEC Japan, NATO, Huawei, or WiPro to name a few. His research interests are focused on the application of Machine Learning\/Deep Learning across different fields.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d19d35c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d19d35c\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b2fe1cb\" data-id=\"b2fe1cb\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7000fee elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"7000fee\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.15.0 - 20-08-2023 *\/\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-con{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-con-inner>.elementor-widget-spacer,.e-con>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));--align-self:var(--container-widget-align-self,initial);--flex-shrink:0}.e-con-inner>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-con-inner>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer,.e-con>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-con>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-con-inner>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner,.e-con>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}<\/style>\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keynote Speakers TBA Professor Marios M. Polycarpou Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus Advisory Board Chair, KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence Honorary Professor of Imperial College London, U.K. Member of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts Member of Academia Europaea (The Academy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eannconf.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eannconf.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eannconf.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eannconf.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eannconf.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":125,"href":"https:\/\/eannconf.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2964,"href":"https:\/\/eannconf.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/2964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eannconf.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}