Advances and Challenges of AI#
IITIS-PAN & Academia Europaea//Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) Paris Scientific Centre//74 rue Lauriston, 75016 Paris#
Date: 27-28 October 2025Conference website
Preliminary Program#
27 October #
9:30am Welcome Coffee
10:00 - 12:00 AI: The Bigger Picture
- Dr Bertrand Braunschweig, Science Coordinator of Confiance.ai, AI Ecolsystem Expert at IRT SystemX, “AI: Trustworthiness and other matters not to run into the wall“
- Prof Iryna Gurevych, MAE, FLeopoldina, TU Darmstadt, “Please meet AI, our dear new colleague. In other words, can scientists and machines truly cooperate?“
- Dr Gael Varoquaux, INRIA and ENS (Paris), "Table Foundation Models to Effortless Statistical Data Science"
- Pawel Piotrowski and Krzysztof Sapiejewski, Orange Labs, PL, “Frugal AI“, krzysztof.sapiejewski@orange.com, pawel.piotrowski@orange.com, nathalie.charbonniaud@orange.com
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Break and Informal Discussions
13:30 - 15:30 Machine Learning Algorithms, Methods and Tools I
- Prof Mira Mezini, MAE FLeopoldina, TU Darmstadt, “AI-Assisted Programming: From Intelligent Code Completion to Foundation Models and Beyond“
- Prof Barbara Hammer, MAE FAcatech, Univ. Bielefeld, “Deep Surrogate Models in cCritical Infrastructures“
- Prof Michel Barlaud, Senior Member IUF, Univ. Nice Côte d’Azur, “A new Linear Time Bi-level {ℓ1,∞} Projection: Application to the sparsification of transformer neural networks“
- Prof Erol Gelenbe, MAE FNATFr Foreign Fellow RABe & PAS, Hon.FHAS, IITIS-PAN PL, “Random Markovian Learning and some of its Applications“
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00 Machine Learning Algorithms, Methods and Tools II
- Prof. Ole-Christoffer Granmo, CAIR, Univ. of Agder (Norway) & Anzys Technologies, & Prof Rishad Shafik, Univ. Newcastle-upon-Tyne “Learning with Low Power Hardware and Tsetlin Machines“
- Dr Manuel Roveri, Politecnico di Milano, “On-device Tiny Machine Learning: From algorithm to hardware,“
19:00 Reception and Dinner
28 October #
9.30 Welcome Coffee
10.00 - 12.00 AI in Healtcare
- Prof Sushmita Mitra FINAS FINAE, Indian Statistical Institute, “Harnessing AI for healthcare“, sushmita@isical.ac.in
- Prof Payam Barnaghi, Imperial College London, “AI Approach to the Analysis of Co-morbidities and their Association with Alzheimer's Disease in a Longitudinal Cohort“
- Prof Benoît Macq FRABe and Sébastien Lugan, Université Catholique de Louvain, “Extending Vision-Language models for the Inclusion of Emotions and Application to Art-Therapy with Museal Digitized Contents“
- Dr Sophie Martin, University College London, “Explainable AI for Dementia“
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch Break and Informal Discussions
13.00 - 14.30 AI & Security, Safety and Trust I
- Prof Zheng Yan, FAcad. Finland, Xidian University, "AI-Empowered Voiceprint Authentication Services with High Security, Privacy, and Usability"
- Prof Jose Camacho, Univ. of Granada, "Interpretable AIOps: anomaly detection and observability with a fully interpretable pipeline“
- Dr Katarzyna Wasielewska, University of Applied Sciences Elblag, PL, "Garbage In, Breach Out: Why Dataset Quality Matters for Cybersecurity"
14.30 - 15.00 Coffee Break
15.00 - 16.30 AI & Security, Safety and Trust II
- Dr Amel Bennaceur, Open University, UK, “Engineering safe and socially-aware AI systems“
- Edgardo Montes de Oca, Montimage FR, "AI related EU projects at Montimage, and the use of LLMs for cybersecurity, security testing and monitoring"
- Mohammed Nasereddin and Erol Gelenbe MAE, IITIS-PAN PL, "Detailed measurements of Random Neural Network attack detection on an experimental test-bed"
16.30 Conclusions and Publication Plans
