Consortium Partners

CeADAR University College Dublin

CeADAR is Ireland’s national centre for applied AI. CeADAR offers a comprehensive service in all aspects of innovation and applied R&D in AI, Machine Learning and Data Analytics. CeADAR has no-charge proofs-of-concept, market-ready solutions, and supports companies in finding funding and investment.

We also deliver training and upskilling courses for beginners to advanced practitioners and for business decision-makers. Our ecosystem of hundreds of companies provides access to a vibrant network of MNCs, SMEs and startups in Ireland and throughout Europe.

CeADAR is a creative AI powerhouse and Ireland’s only Digital Innovation Hub (DIH) in AI focused on delivering value and sustained competitive advantage through accelerated research, development and deployment of AI and data analytics technology and innovation into business.

The Team

Ricardo Simon Carbajo

Project coordinator

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

I am genuinely motivated to work with some of the best minds in Europe to produce a proper Trustworthy and Efficient AI framework and library which will be available as open source for the benefit of AI practitioners".

Hristo Stoev

WP2 / WP3 Researcher

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

I expect that MANOLO will deliver a platform that will help myself and other Data Scientists simplify our work and make the AI ecosystem more fair and ethical,.

Eric Arazo

WP2 / WP3 Researcher

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

I expect MANOLO to push AI boundaries to make machine learning more accessible, trustworthy, and efficient for everyone.

Andres L Suarez-Cetrulo

T3.2 lead and contributor in model robustness monitoring in WP5

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

We expect MANOLO to create ways to serve, store, and train AI models more efficiently and build trust in them.

Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya

The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya BarcelonaTech (UPC) is a public institution of research and higher education in the fields of engineering, architecture, sciences and technology. Every year, more than 6,000 bachelor’s and master’s students and more than 500 doctoral students graduate (academic year 2022-2023). The UPC has a high graduate employment rate: 93% of its graduates are in work and 76% find a job in under three months in accordance with the 2017 AQU Catalunya survey.

The UPC is an International Campus of Excellence with two projects: the Barcelona Knowledge Campus and the Energy Campus. Through these projects, it promotes employability, social cohesion and regional economic development. It interacts with research centres, science and technology parks, businesses and other agents as a hub for attracting talent in emerging research areas. In addition, through its four UNESCO Chairs, the UPC contributes to the exchange of knowledge and fosters cooperation.

The Team

Xavi Masip

Contributor in conceptualizing the continuum approach in MANOLO

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

MANOLO opens a door for feeding new research activities to the AI field, aimed at matching AI operational needs and cloud continuum characteristics.

EVIDEN IT Services and IT Consulting

Eviden is the Atos Group brand for hardware and software products with c. € 1 billion in revenue, operating in 36 countries and comprising four business units: advanced computing, cybersecurity products, mission-critical systems and vision AI. As a next-generation technology leader, Eviden offers a unique combination of hardware and software technologies for businesses, public sector and defense organizations and research institutions, helping them to create value out of their data. Bringing together more than 4,500 world-class talents and holding more than 2,100 patents, Eviden provides a strong portfolio of innovative and eco-efficient solutions in AI, computing, security, data and applications.

The Team

Sonia Castro

Team coordination and Business management

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

MANOLO gives us the opportunity to keep increasing our knowledge and expertise in the fascinating AI field and to contribute to its development and use by the society.

EVIDEN Technologies SRL

Eviden Technologies SRL offers cutting-edge, best in class, end-to-end IT services. The company is based in Romania, and it provides services in the following areas: software development, cybersecurity, Big Data, High Performance Computers, and Digitization solutions for customers all over the world.

Eviden Technologies SRL encompasses a unique synergistic alliance of computing & security solutions bringing intelligence and AI across the digital continuum and delivering end-to-end zero trust, business continuity and resilience, coherently addressing cyber security from a technological perspective keeping a holistic approach in mind (considering people, processes, and technology), to ensure innovation in the field of cyber incidents detection, impact assessment and response.

Technische Universität Braunschweig

Technische Universität Braunschweig is a technical university,based in Germany, with a rich tradition and a proven research and teaching profile.

It has a complete engineering branch covering architecture, civil and environmental engineering, electrical engineering, informatics and mechanical engineering. A strong natural sciences branch with an excellent professional network within TU Braunschweig. Also has a business sciences, social sciences, humanities, educational sciences and subject-specific teaching skills, all of them well integrated into TU Braunschweig.

All the departments contribute to defining the university’s focus.

The Team

Mounir Bensalem

Research Assistant T4.2

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

I expect MANOLO to drive interesting AI research, aligning AI needs with edge and cloud resources, all while supporting a PhD student's successful graduation.

National Centre For Scientific Research DEMOKRITOS

The National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos” (NCSR Demokritos) is the largest multidisciplinary research center in Greece, with critical mass in expertise and infrastructure in the fields of Informatics and Telecommunications, Nanotechnology, Energy & Environment, Biosciences, Particle and Nuclear Science.
With more than 1,200 staff, approximately 180 Researchers and more than 500 research staff working on numerous projects funded by the Greek State, the European Union, International organisations and the Industry, NCSR Demokritos conducts world-class basic and applied research, for advancing scientific knowledge and promoting technological development in selected areas of national socio-economic interest. The Center also plays a pivotal role in graduate education and professional training and its unique infrastructure is employed for high-technology services to the Industry and the Society.

The Team

Maria Dagioglou (PI)

WP2 / WP5 Researcher

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

MANOLO provides a great opportunity for purusing exciting technical questions that emerge as tough alingment requirements.

Natalia Koliou

WP2 / WP5 Researcher

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

MANOLO is about shaping a responsible future for AI by addressing real-world challenges with respect to efficiency, sustainability, and trustworthiness.

Stasinos Konstantopoulos

WP2 Leader

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

I welcome the opportunity that MANOLO gives to the consortium to collaborate on interesting technical questions.

FOUR DOT INFINITY Information and Telecommunications Solutions PC

FOUR DOT INFINITY (FDI) is a Greek-based SME (6G-IA & ADRA member) with a robust track record in R&D within European frameworks (6G-CLOUD, MANOLO, CyclOps, ENACT) and over 20 years of experience in cutting-edge solutions in 5G/6G networks, Industry 4.0/5.0 and Cloud-Edge-IoT, leveraging cloud-native and open-source tools applying them in real-world environments.

The Team

Panagiotis Trakadas

T5.3 Explainability & Robustness Validation leader

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

I believe MANOLO will contribute to shaping the future of trustworthy AI by fostering innovative solutions that seamlessly integrate transparency, robustness, and real-world applicability.

Manolis Kelaidis

T4.1 Federated Learning leader

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

I hope MANOLO will open opportunities in real-life exploitation of it's cutting-edge solutions.

Zazos Panagiotis

T5.3 Researcher

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

I expect MANOLO to deepen my expertise in explainability, deploying AI systems that are more transparent, acountable and user-centric.

Argyro Amidi

Legal Expert

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

I expect MANOLO to continue playing a leading role in the Cluster of Trustworthy AI and to enhance the collaboration with the other sister projects towards a common broader output.

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung EV

The Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, headquartered in Erlangen, Germany, conducts world-class research on microelectronic and IT system solutions and services. Today, it is with more than 1170 employees the largest institute of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. 72 percent of the budget of 189.7 million euros a year is financed by contract research projects.

Fraunhofer IIS was instrumental in the development of mp3 and AAC and played a significant role in the digitalization of the cinema. Besides current developments in this area, the institute researches technologies for sensor technology, data transmission technology, data analysis methods and the exploitation of data as part of data-driven services and their accompanying business models. The results of this research have been applied in the areas of connected mobility, communication and application solutions for the Internet of Things, digitalization of human sensing, product and material monitoring, and business analytics in supply chains.

The Team

Sebastian Karl

WP3 Leader

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

We are looking forward to enable the integration of ultra-energy efficient AI accelerators in larger, trustworthy AI systems.

Maen Mallah

WP3 Researcher

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

To provide a platform that lowers the threshold to develop, optimize, and deploy models on edge using Neural Architecture Search.

Bijoy Kundu

WP5 Researcher

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

Through collaborations in MANOLO, we expect to bring our ADELIA AI chip to developers seeking ultra-low power solutions.

Axel Plinge

Advisor

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

We anticipate innovative tools for cloud edge optimization and new learnings in the field of HW-aware learning and optimization.

Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique

Inria is the French national research institute for digital science and technology. World-class research, technological innovation and entrepreneurial risk are its DNA. In 220 project teams, most of which are shared with major research universities, more than 3,900 researchers and engineers explore new paths, often in an interdisciplinary manner and in collaboration with industrial partners to meet ambitious challenges.

As a technological institute, Inria supports the diversity of innovation pathways: from open source software publishing to the creation of technological startups (Deeptech).

The Team

Guillaume Charpiat

T3.4 Frugal-oriented Neural Architecture Growth leader

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

We anticipate more frugal AI tools and platforms, particularly Neural Architecture Search.

Stella Douka

PhD student T3.4

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

Frugality will be the cornerstone of the next development, and we hope MANOLO will help to promote the advances in our community

Stéphane Rivaud

Post-Doctoral Researcher T3.4

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

I expected MANOLO to push further the innovation in trustworthy AI system.

Université Paris-Saclay

Université Paris-Saclay,located in Paris,is a leading university in Europe and the world, it covers the fields of science and engineering, life sciences and health, and humanities and social sciences.

The university’s science policy closely intertwines research and innovation, incorporating both basic and applied science to tackle major societal challenges.

Université Paris-Saclay offers a varied range of undergraduate to doctorate level degrees, including programmes with its grandes écoles, all of which are focused on achieving student success and employability. The university prepares students for an ever-changing world where the ability to think critically, remain agile and renew one’s skills are crucial.
The university, also offers a comprehensive range of lifelong learning courses.

The Team

Sylvain Chevallier

T3.4 Senior Researcher

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

Manolo will yield a common platform that meets the highest quality standards for spreading innovation.

Yrkeshögskolan Arcada AB

Arcada is a multi-professional university of applied sciences (UAS) with campus located in Arabianranta, Helsinki. It offers high-quality practice-oriented higher education in Swedish and English at both bachelor’s and master’s levels as well as open university courses and further education.

The university focuses in the fields of Business Administration, Sports, Media, Social- and Health Care, Culture and Technology.

It also, make a groundbreaking research and development initiatives. By staying in tune with the needs of society and business world, Arcada's applied research finds practical solutions to the challenges of world, which is facing.

The Team

Roberto V. Zicari

Z-Inspection® Initiative Lead

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

Use this opportunity to create best practices that can be used in other projects.

Elisabeth Hildt

Ethics researcher, trustworthy AI assessment

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

Closely collaborate with the MANOLO project partners; better understand the technical parts of MANOLO.

Centre for IT & IP Law at KU Leuven

The Centre for IT & IP Law is a research center at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), with currently a staff of over 85 researchers specialized in legal and ethical aspects of IT innovation and intellectual property.

The Centre for IT & IP Law has a solid track record as a law and ethics partner of large international and interdisciplinary research projects. It is internationally renowned for its expertise in the areas of Artificial Intelligence & Autonomous systems, Data Protection & Privacy, eHealth & Pharma, Ethics & Law, Intellectual Property, Media & Telecommunications and (Cyber)security.

The Team

Vladimir Apraxine

Legal and ethic researcher

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

To closely collaborate with an interdisciplinary consortium and advance the research in the development of trusthworthy and legally compliant AI.

Laurea University of Applied Sciences

Laurea is one of the biggest universities of applied sciences in Finland. We operate on six campuses in the Helsinki-Uusimaa Region which is the capital region of Finland. The Laurea community is comprised of approximately 10,200 students and 680 staff members.

Laurea engages in applied research, development, and innovation (RDI) with the aim of generating new researched knowledge and practices to advance sustainable development goals. Laurea's three research programs—Sustainable and Diverse Social and Health Sector, Service Business and Circular Economy, and Unified Security—align with our educational programs. Currently, Laurea has approximately a hundred externally funded RDI projects that contribute to developing solutions for regional and global challenges.

The Team

Miia Seppänen

Service Designer

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

By implementing design thinking and co-creation methodology, we can ensure the desired outcomes in the MANOLO project.

Paulinus Ofem

LAU MANOLO project manager

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

Good understanding of trustworthy AI solutions co-design and assessment with Z-Inspection® process and consolidation of the organisation’s expertise in the area.

Emilia Risu

Service Designer

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

In MANOLO, by using design thinking approach, we can deepen the shared understanding among multistakeholders on AI development and support collaborative ethics work

Sari Sarlio-Siintola

Ethics expertise

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

To achieve a comprehensive understanding of the co-design, implementation, and validation of trustworthy AI, utilizing the z-inspection process.

Jukka Malinen

LAU-MANOLO Technical support

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

To increase understanding about the usage of Service Design in Trustworthy AI development and how to evaluate and validate trustworthy AI.

PAL Robotics

Since 2004, PAL Robotics has developed state-of-the-art robots specially designed to solve customers' needs. They are known for their service robots used for research, intralogistics, retail and social applications for commercial organisations and research institutions.

The company’s mission is to enhance people’s quality of life through service robotics and automation technologies.

You can find PAL Robotics in Spain, France, and Italy, with platforms designed and manufactured in Barcelona and sold to customers worldwide. The company has partnered in over 40 collaborative research projects to further the development of robotics.

The Team

Marco Rosa

WP6 Leader

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

Trustworthy AI for robotics, aligned with the EU AI Act, ensuring transparency, accountability, and reliable autonomous system decisions.

BIT & BRAIN Technologies SL

Bitbrain is a brain technology company that combines neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and hardware to develop high-tech EEG brain sensing devices and other human monitoring technologies, together with software solutions for real-world applications and research.
It supports research, tech, and health professionals to leverage neuroscience in a practical and reliable way.

Bitbrain is committed to developing cutting-edge neurotechnology that is practical for real-world research and applications, and that has a positive impact on people's lives.

The Team

Luis Montesano

"IoT - Wearables in Healthcare" Use Case leader

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

It will help us transition our home-based neurotech solution to a cloud-edge paradigm, optimizing resources and guaranteeing trustworthiness.

María Sierra

T6.2 Use Cases' deployment leader

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

To deploy hybrid AI architectures that reduce costs, improve accuracy, and enhance the scalability of brain-computer interface interventions.

ARX NET AE Ypiresies kai Epichirisis Diadiktyou Anonimi Etairia

ARX.NET SA, founded in 2001, is Greek-based SME that designs and develops innovative software, applications and services to brands in the Telecom, Video, Gaming and Banking industry. It is a leader in cloud-based solutions, family security applications, cross-platform TV application development and complex multi-platform end-to-end service delivery. ARX.NET delivers and operates a number of white label solutions and platforms for Telecoms that help them enrich their consumer and business propositions, differentiate from their competition, increase customer loyalty and get additional revenue streams.

ARX.NET has significant Research and Development activities in several areas, including cloud solutions and services, big data analysis, artificial intelligence, mobile technologies and security, customer insights, TV and video streaming services, augmented and virtual reality, and IoT projects.

The Team

Pavlos Doudoulakis

Researcher in Data Science across WPs

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

I expect MANOLO to enhance AI efficiency, trustworthiness, and compliance, enabling sustainable, high-performance deployment across cloud-edge environments.

Pantelis I. Kaplanoglou

ARX.NET Project Manager & "Smartphones in Telecommunications" Use Case leader

Panagiotis Papanikolaou

ARX.NET Communication Officer

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

Drive innovative solutions and expand both my personal and my organization’s expertise in AI at the ever-evolving cloud-edge continuum.

Q-PLAN International Advisors PC

Q-PLAN is an innovation and management consulting company based in Thessaloniki, Greece. It focuses on design, management and implementation of Research and Innovation projects as well as studies; support of private or public organisations of different types and sizes to (re)design, implement, audit and accredit/ certify their management systems and processes; and support services for businesses to make the most out of available funding and financing opportunities. Q-PLAN has been involved in over 55 EU-funded projects and policy studies.

The Team

George Spyridopoulos

WP7 Leader, Project Management Office, Exploitation Manager

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

I expect MANOLO to deliver market-ready business models and plans, supporting its solutions achieve real-world adoption and commercial success.

Dora Theodoridou

Project Management Office, Data Manager

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

I strive to enhance my knowledge of AI systems and their effective application across diverse domains.

Maria Anna Belefanti

Communication & Dissimination specialist WP7

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

I expect to learn more about AI systems and bring to my organisation efficient and trustworthy solutions.

28DIGITAL is your gateway to digital innovation in Europe, bringing together digital innovation, education & entrepreneurship. It delivers breakthrough digital innovations to the market and breeds entrepreneurial talent for economic growth and improved quality of life in Europe. It does this by mobilising a pan-European ecosystem of more than 300 top European corporations, SMEs, startups, universities and research institutes.

As a Knowledge and Innovation Community of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, 28DIGITAL is focused on entrepreneurship and is at the forefront of integrating education, research and business by bringing together students, researchers, engineers, business developers and entrepreneurs.

The company invests in strategic areas to accelerate the market uptake of research-based digital technologies focusing on Europe’s strategic, societal challenges: Digital Industry, Digital Cities, Digital Wellbeing, Digital Tech and Digital Finance.

28DIGITAL breeds T-shaped entrepreneurial digital talent focused on innovation through a blended Education Strategy that includes a Master School, Summer School, Doctoral School and Professional School.

The Team

Antonio Garcia-Hortal

Innovation Leader\ Summer Schools and Hackatons and Innovation Challenges organizer. Business Modelling support

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

MANOLO supports an AI that reflects European values by highligting trust among people and promoting the efficient use of resources.

Susanne Kuehrer

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

I expect MANOLO to provide a trustworthy framework of tools that can be used by companies for their AI business.

Paloma Yumi

Coordinate and implement MANOLO’s ecosystem-building actions

What expectations do you have for the project from your personal/organisational perspective?

To create tangible impact through open collaboration, demonstrations, and innovation labs that validate MANOLO’s framework beyond the initial use cases.

Industrial and Ethics Advisory Board

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The Team

Houssem Chatbri

AI (Director of Data Science at BNY)

Houssem Chatbri is a Director of AI at the Bank of New York (BNY) and he is a member of the global AI Hub team. He leads the Responsible AI R&D Unit out from Dublin, and his work consists of building capabilities to ensure that AI is used safely and in compliance with regulations while solving different business use cases across BNY. He is also active in collaborations with Irish universities and the Industrial Development Agency (IDA) in Ireland that supports his team’s R&D activities. Prior to his work at BNY, Houssem worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher and IRC Fellow at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at DCU. Then, he moved to the industry and took different roles in applied AI areas including computer vision for security and video moderation, healthcare and health insurance, document digitalization and understanding, and other areas of pattern recognition, image and video analytics. Houssem holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Tsukuba in Japan in 2016, and he was a visiting scientist to Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in New York US and to University of New England in Australia during 2014 and 2015. He has published more than 20 papers in AI/ML and he holds 4 patents.

Daniel Alonso

Senior Technical Lead Big Data & AI Ecosystems, BDVA

With background on telecommunications and ICT technologies and more than 25 years of professional experience dedicated to both research, innovation and industry on these fields, during the last years I have been involved in most relevant regional and European technology innovation ecosystems, participating in forums and discussions, co-organizing strategic activities and events, contributing to Strategic Research and Innovation Agendas, leading working groups and coordinating strategic projects. From April 2023, I am working at Big Data Value Association (BDVA) as Senior Technical Lead Big Data and AI ecosystems, focused on (i) leading the activities to generate relevant outcomes in relation to Data Spaces, Big Data Value technologies and industrial AI, (ii) supporting the development of strategic agendas, roadmaps, reports, architectures, frameworks, methodologies, standards, and paths for technology adoption, value creation and market uptake, and (iii) engaging with stakeholder networks at International, European, National and Regional level.

Sabine Thuermel

Computer Science, Philosophy

Computer Science (Ph.D. in Computer Science from Technische Universität München in 1989). Philosophy (Ph.D. in Philosophy of Science and Technology from Technische Universität München in 2013, advisor Klaus Mainzer). Wide-ranging experience in computer science and as technical strategy advisor. I profit from my work both in academia and industry. Interdisciplinary work on the foundations and effects of culture changing information technologies since the 1990s. Focus on Machine Learning and AI in general since 2017: presentations at conferences in Japan, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and the USA. Focus on Smart Contracts and Distributed Autonomous Organizations since 2017: presentations at conferences in Canada, Italy, Sweden, and Germany. Current research interests include Big Data, Machine Learning and AI in general, autonomy and control in socio-technical systems, emergence and chance in agent-based simulation as well as trust in blockchain-based environments.

Florian Möslein

Οn regulatory theory, corporate sustainability and the legal challenges of the digital age.

Florian Möslein is Director of the Institute for Law and Regulation of Digitalisation (www.irdi.institute) and Professor of Law at the Philipps-University Marburg, where he teaches Contract Law, Company Law and Capital Markets Law. He previously held academic positions at the Universities of Berlin, St. Gallen, and Bremen, and visiting fellowships in Italy (Florence, European University Institute), the US (NYU, Stanford and Berkeley), Australia (University of Sydney), Spain (CEU San Pablo, Madrid) and Denmark (Aarhus). Having graduated from the Faculty of Law in Munich, he also holds academic degrees from the University of Paris-Assas (licence en droit) and London (LL.M. in International Business Law). Florian Möslein published three monographs and over 80 articles and book contributions, and has edited seven books. His current research focus is on regulatory theory, corporate sustainability and the legal challenges of the digital age.

Martina Simon

Group leader, research in the field of human acceptance of technology

As part of the Human-Centered Innovation group, Martina Simon seeks to understand how technology influences human behavior and everyday life. Her research explores how insights from behavioral psychology and economics can be leveraged to develop technological solutions that are not only functional but also intuitive and easily accessible—ensuring optimal support for users in their daily lives. Her main research interests include analyzing user behavior and experience, as well as studying the conditions under which people accept new, particularly AI-based technologies. A key focus lies in the user-centered development and evaluation of technological solutions, considering socio-ethical aspects. Another central area of her research is the implementation of AI-based solutions across various work and life domains. She investigates how these technologies can be successfully integrated into professional and personal contexts, the challenges they pose, and their individual, organizational, and societal implications.

Hassan Md. Hamadi

PhD student in the field of social psychology of generative AI

Hassan Hamadi is a PhD student at Lund University School of Economics and Management, currently based in Lund, Sweden. His research focuses on technological hypes, digital ethics, collective decision-making, and AI-augmented reasoning, situated at the intersection of machine learning, cognitive science, and social psychology. He has a background in civil and industrial engineering, holding a bachelor's and master's degree in systems engineering. Before academia, he worked for seven years managing various mechanical, industrial, and infrastructural projects.

Lily Frank

Philosopher and Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Ethics t the Technical University of Eindhoven

Lily Frank is a Philosopher and an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Ethics at the Technical University of Eindhoven, in the Netherlands. Her areas of specialization are biomedical ethics, biotechnology, moral psychology and ethics. Her current research focuses on issues at the intersection of applied ethics, specifically bioethics and metaethics and moral psychology, such as moral expertise, moralization of health conditions, and technology and moral progress. She is also working on issues in reproductive ethics including abortion and the artificial uterus. Other teaching topics include Technology and Quality of Life; Human Enhancement, Technology & Transhumanism; and the Quantified Self in Health.

Vincent C. Müller

Philosophy and Ethics of AI

He is AvH Professor for Philosophy and Ethics of AI and Director of the Centre for Philosophy and AI Research (PAIR) at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg. He was Professor at the Technical University of Eindhoven (2019-22) and at Anatolia College/ACT (Thessaloniki) (1998-2019), as well as James Martin Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (2011-15) and Stanley J. Seeger Fellow at Princeton University (2005-6). Müller studied philosophy with cognitive science, linguistics and history at the universities of Marburg, Hamburg, London and Oxford.