Academia Europaea Workshop “Advances and Challenges of AI”

Coffee and Registration

Before attending any meeting or session at the workshop, please complete the registration process.

Building D20

Address: ul. Janiszewskiego 8, 50-372 Wrocław

Opening by Prof. Arkadiusz Wójs,  Director of Academia Europea Wroclaw Hub, Rector of Wrocław University of Science and Technology

Erol Gelenbe, MAE, Fellow French National Academy of Technologies & Science Academy of Turkey, Foreign Fellow Royal Academy of Belgium, Polish Academy of Sciences, Foreign Fellow Indian National Science Academy, IITIS-PAN, Gliwice, Poland
“Introduction: AI Viewed as Optimization and Simulation”

Włodzisław Duch, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
“Searching for Signs of Consciousness in Large Language Models” 

Balazs Pozsgay, Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary
“The Use of AI in Mathematical Physics”

Maciej Piasecki, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland
“Beyond English – Building Large Language Models for Polish and Slavic Languages”

Lunch Break

Barbara Hammer, MAE, Fellow Acatech, University of Bielefeld, Germany
“Foundation models and where to find them”

Gabriella Pasi, MAE, Fellow Istituto Lombardo, University of Milano Bicocca,  Italy
“Context and Knowledge Awareness in Large Language Models”

Maciej Ogorzałek, MAE, Fellow Polish Academy of Sciences, JagiellonianUniversity, Krakow, Poland
“Computer-Assisted Skin Cancer Diagnosis”

Alan Smeaton, MAE, Fellow Royal Irish Academy, Dublin City University, Dublin, Irleand
“AI and information seeking: Addressing how AI companies have taken over the way that information finds us, and replaced the way we used to find information”

Maria Carla Calzarossa, University of Pavia, Italy,
“Another Look at Explainability”

Coffee Break

Jean-Michel Kantor, Université Paris-Cité, France
“The future of AI: Iissues and limits”

Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland, Chair IEEE SMC TC on Computational Collective Intelligence
“The Wisdom of Crowds: Sentiment Analysis Meets Collective Intelligence”

Ying-Cheng Lai, MAE, Arizona State University, United States of America
“Reservoir Computing: Machine Learning Meets Nonlinear Dynamics”

Adrian Horzyk, AGH University of Kraków, Kraków, Poland
“Beyond Classical GNNs: Associative Graph Intelligence and Self-Optimizing Neural Architectures”

Boris Mirkin, MAE, Birkbeck College, University of London, United Kingdom
“S. Kulczynski’s similarity index: A cornerstone for structuring research in Data Science 2002-2024″

Katarzyna Filus, IITIS-PAN, Gliwice, Poland
“Cognitive psychology-inspired methods for neural network testing”

Piotr Gawron, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and AGH Center of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence, Kraków, Poland
“Quantum machines and methods for machine learning”

Przemysław Kazienko, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland
“Navigating the AI Frontier: Balancing Responsible Innovation and Human Skills”

Mert Nakip, IITIS-PAN, Gliwice, Poland
“Tiny Machine Learning”

Lunch Break

Research and Industry Posters

Research Posters:

• “Trustworthiness and AI”, Kemal Delic, Open University, United Kingdom
• “AI for CyberAttack Detection: Principles, Results and Demonstration”, Mohammed Nasereddin, IITIS-PAN, Polish Academy of Science, Gliwice, Poland
• “Modelling Trust: A mathematical and simulation environment” Qixian Ren, IITIS-PAN, Polish Academy of Science, Gliwice, Poland
• “A Privacy-Preserving Multimodal Framework for Behavioural User Identification in Augmented Reality”, Onyeka J. Nwobodo, Silesian University of Technology and Godlove S. Kuaban, IITIS-PAN, Polish Academy of Science, Gliwice, Poland
• “Innovative Health Initiatives (IHI): Project OPTIMA (https://www.optima-oncology.eu/) Tackles Cancer through Real World Data and Artificial Intelligence” Andrei Kiselev, BDM Consulting, France
• “Trust with Votes and Recommendations”, Qixian Ren, IITIS-PAN, Gliwice, Poland