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🎓 Professor Ioannis N. Athanasiadis has been appointed as the chairholder of the new chair group in Artificial Intelligence at Wageningen University & Research 👏 This chair group highlights the growing importance of AI for WUR and builds on previous investments in AI research and education. Prof Athanasiadis develops AI methods to address global challenges in agriculture and ecology. He strongly believes in practice-oriented, fundamental research: “I am driven by the complexity of natural systems and want to harness artificial intelligence for the good of the planet” 💚 What role can AI play in plant research? 🌱 And how does Ioannis Athanasiadis see his new role as chair holder? Read all about it below 👇 💡 Would you like to read the full interview? Find it here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eVnNAuPH #AI #climatechange #sustainability #agriculture

A proposito dell'incontro di ieri organizzato da digitalswitzerland a Locarno, ecco una bella intervista con Marco Zaffalon, direttore scientifico IDSIA USI-SUPSI, sull'impatto della IA generativa sulla settima arte. Condivido appieno le sue conclusioni: "non sarà la macchina a sostituirvi, potrebbe invece farlo un’altra persona che si è impossessata delle nuove tecniche e dei nuovi strumenti". https://lnkd.in/ekhTEZqE #ai #locarnofilmfestival #locarno77 #education

I have successfully defended my PhD thesis! These past few years have been filled with intense and transformative experiences, I'm really grateful! 🎉 Heartfelt thanks to my advisor Cesare Alippi, the amazing team at IDSIA USI-SUPSI (especially Ivan Marisca and Daniele Zambon), and the exceptional committee members Michael Bronstein, Luca Maria Gambardella, Davide Bacciu, Mathias Niepert, and Peter Tino.

It was an intensive week with the Workshop on Nonlinear System Identification Benchmarks, preceded by a two-day intensive course on "Deep Learning for System Identification." I'm delighted to see the vibrant activities within the System Identification community, with numerous students and young researchers making significant contributions to the field. Special thanks to Maarten Schoukens, Koen Tiels, Jean-Philippe Noël for their work over the past years on the development of challenging benchmarks for system identification. Many thanks to our keynote speakers Alberto Bemporad, Melanie Zeilinger, Roland Toth, @mario sznaier, for delivering impressive presentations. And sincere thanks to all the contributors and participants for engaging in constructive discussions and for creating a stimulating environment. Looking forward to the next edition in Eindhoven. University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, IDSIA USI-SUPSI Marco Forgione, Gabriele Maroni, Manas Mejari, Loris Roveda, Marco Maccarini, Loris Cannelli, Filippo Pura, Jorge Lo Presti, Matteo Rufolo, Milad Banitalebi, Alessia Gianinazzi, Asad A. Shahid, Angelo Moroncelli, Elena Invernizzi

Today I was honored to receive the TRA VISIONS Senior Researcher Award at Transport Research Arena (TRA) 2024 in Dublin, in the presence of important figures such as the Irish Minister Jack Chambers. I consider such award as an important milestone in my mixed industrial-academic career, with a sharp focus on railway transportation research. It started 20+ years ago with my master's degree dissertation on model-based dependability evaluation of ERTMS/ETCS, in cooperation with Ansaldo (now Hitachi Rail). That was the beginning of a long journey that allowed me to visit many countries and explore several aspects of verification and validation, model-based risk assessment, resilient software engineering, and trustworthy AI for critical cyber-physical systems and secure infrastructures, all essential enablers for next-generation intelligent train control and smart-railways. I would like to dedicate this award to my family (with my wife Liana Ricci - MBA being the only one available here on LinkedIn), always there to support me and tolerate my swinging mood, and my father, passed away a few years ago, whom I owe my passion for engineering since I was a kid. I also share this award with all people who worked with me in recent railway-related research projects, especially Prof. Valeria Vittorini (Europe's Rail Joint Undertaking RAILS S2R Project coordinator), for her invaluable support and dedication in all these years. Here is the long (and certainly incomplete) list of people and colleagues I would like to thank because they all contributed to this award through their long lasting support, cooperation, and effective teamwork: Armando Carrillo Zanuy, Stefano Ricci, Lorenzo De Donato, Ruifan Tang, Nikola Bešinović, Rob Goverde, Zhiyuan Lin, Ronghui Liu, Stefano Marrone, Stefano Marrone, Elena Napoletano, Roberto Nardone, Stefania Santini, Egidio Quaglietta, Arturo Amendola, Pietro Marmo PMP®, Leonardo Impagliazzo, Antonio Orazzo, Cristina Seceleanu, Muhammad Usman Sanwal, Tina Pragliola, Mauro Caporuscio, Josef Noll, Alfio Pappalardo, Mariana Esposito, Ph.D., Andrea Gaglione, Ph.D., Francesco Vitale, Ruggieri Antonio, Mauro José Pappaterra, Andrea Bondavalli, Rosaria Esposito, Andrea Emilio Rizzoli. A special thank goes to Prof. Mazzocca Nicola, former mentor and supervisor, without whom this journey would have never started. I take this opportunity to also thank TRA' staff and committees members for the excellent job they did to ensure the smooth organization and the big success of this year's event, with over 4000 participants. Finally, although my research nowadays covers several domains, this award represents a further and strong motivation for me to continue providing my humble contribution to safer, socially inclusive, and greener transportation, which is a key factor for a more sustainable future for us and our children.

The IRB institute in Bellinzona is looking for a post-doc researcher that will work on the use of AI for antibody discovery. The intersection of AI and biomedicine is a rapidly emerging research area and I am pretty sure we are going to see even more interesting stuff in the next few years. Andrea Cavalli, USI Università della Svizzera italiana, IDSIA USI-SUPSI