ELLIS Board

The ELLIS Board sets and oversees the strategic direction, governance, and financial sustainability of the organization while ensuring interdisciplinary, pan-European research impact. Additionally, they engage stakeholders and strengthen European leadership in AI through collaboration with the EU and other partners.

Executive Board

Serge Belongie
Fellow • Board President
Cornell University
University of Copenhagen
Nuria Oliver
Program Director • Unit Director • Fellow • Board Vice President
ELLIS Alicante Unit Foundation
Torsten Sattler
Fellow • Board Treasurer
Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU)

Board Members

Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi
Program Director • Unit Director • Fellow • Board Member
University of Milan
Florence d'Alché-Buc
Fellow • Board Member
Polytechnic Institute of Paris (Télécom Paris)
Samuel Kaski
Program Director • Unit Director • Fellow • Board Member
Aalto University
Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI)
University of Manchester
Danica Kragic
Fellow • Board Member
KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Neil D. Lawrence
Fellow • Board Member
University of Cambridge
Oliver Stegle
Program Director • Unit Director • Fellow • Board Member
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Heidelberg
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)

Board Coordination

Daniela Diaconu
Chief of Staff • Staff • Chief of Staff
ELLIS Society

Board Alumni

Matthias Bethge
Program Director • Unit Director • Fellow • Board Alumni
University of Tübingen
Barbara Caputo
Fellow • Board Alumni
Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)
Politecnico di Torino
Andreas Geiger
Fellow • Board Alumni
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS)
University of Tübingen
Nada Lavrač
Fellow • Board Alumni
Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI)
Bernhard Schölkopf
Program Director • Unit Director • Fellow • Board Alumni
ELLIS Institute Tübingen
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS)
Josef Sivic
Unit Director • Fellow • Board Alumni
Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU)
École Normale Supérieure (ENS)
National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria)
Max Welling
Program Director • Fellow • Board Alumni
University of Amsterdam (UvA)

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