27th of November at 16h00, Nuno Lourenço (bAI) will give a presentation entitled“Smart, Sustainable, and Evolved AI”
Location: G4.1Online: https://meet.google.com/rqf-xofk-dck
Abstract
In this talk, we will present and discuss how nature-inspired approaches, namely evolutionary algorithms (EAs) can address sustainability and robustness challenges in AI, namely in Deep Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs).
Bio
Nuno Lourenço is an Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics Engineering of the University of Coimbra, where he obtained his PhD in Information Science and Technology in 2016. He is the current coordinator of the bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence (bAI) group and is a member of the Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra (CISUC) since 2009. His main research interests are in the areas of Bio-Inspired Algorithms, Optimisation and Machine Learning. He is the co-creator of Structured Grammatical Evolution, Probabilistic Grammatical Evolution, and DENSER, a novel approach to automatically design Deep Artificial Neural Networks using Evolutionary Computation. He served as chair in the main conferences of the Evolutionary Computation field, namely EuroGP 2020 and 2021 as program chair, and PPSN 2018 and EuroGP 2019 as publication chair. He is a member of the Programme Committee of GECCO, PPSN, and EuroGP; a member of the Steering Committee of EuroGP; and an executive board member of SPECIES.