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 2025
Conference website
Artificial intelligence (AI) is currently impacting science, business, technology, and culture. This workshop will examine AI's connections with specific important fields of science and technology, including computer science, software engineering, the modelling of complex engineering systems, medicine and health, brain science, and cybersecurity. It will identify both potential advances, and obstacles such as the trustworthiness of AI and its massive energy consumption.
Programme#
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"
- Prof Maria Carla Calzarossa, Università di Pavia (IT), "Explainable AI: accuracy, complexity and robustness"
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 AI in Healtcare
- Prof Sushmita Mitra, Fellow Indian National Scence Academy, FINAE, Indian Statistical Institute, “Harnessing AI for healthcare“
- Dr Sophie Martin, University College London, “Explainable AI for Dementia“
19:00 Dinner
28 October #
9:00 Welcome Coffee
9:30 - 12:00 AI & Security, Safety and Trust
- 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"
- Dr Amel Bennaceur, Open University, UK, “Engineering safe and socially-aware AI systems“
- Mohammed Nasereddin and Erol Gelenbe, IITIS-PAN PL, "Detailed measurements of Random Neural Network attack detection on an experimental test-bed"
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:00 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“
14:00 - 14:30 Industry Research presentation
- Edgardo Montes de Oca, Montimage FR, "AI related EU projects at Montimage, and the use of LLMs for cybersecurity, security testing and monitoring"
16.30 Conclusions and Publication Plans
