Explainable AI (XAI): Making AI systems more transparent and understandable to humans.


ELLIS created a network of outstanding AI researchers across Europe and Israel with a proven track record of scientific excellence. These scientists are top experts in their respective fields and participate in ELLIS in various ways, for example by building up cross-national research programs and ELLIS sites, and by supervising ELLIS PhD students. All scientists listed below are members of the ELLIS network, carry out own research projects at scientific institutions across Europe, and are available to provide statements on their respective field of expertise. You can filter the list alphabetically.

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Name Role ELLIS Unit ELLIS Program Spoken languages Website
Manuel Gomez Rodriguez Fellow Saarbrücken, Germany Human-centric Machine Learning Spanish, English http://learning.mpi-sws.org
Juan Manuel Gorriz Saez Member Cambridge, UK Theory, Algorithms and Computations of Modern Learning Systems Spanish, English https://www.ugr.es/~gorriz/
Fredrik Johnasson Member     Swedish, English https://www.fredjo.com
Sabine Süsstrunk Fellow Lausanne, Switzerland   English, French, German https://www.epfl.ch/labs/ivrl/
Bastian Rieck Member Munich, Germany Geometric Deep Learning German, English https://bastian.rieck.me
Cassio de Campos Member     English, Portuguese, Italian https://uai.win.tue.nl/cassio-de-campos/
Nuria Oliver Fellow Alicante, Spain Human-centric Machine Learning Spanish, English, French, Catalan https://nuriaoliver.com
Sören Auer Member   Semantic, Symbolic and Interpretable Machine Learning German, English https://tib.eu/auer
Philipp Berens Scholar Tübingen, Germany   German, English https://www.hertie.ai/data-science
François Bachoc Member     French, English https://www.math.univ-toulouse.fr/~fbachoc/index.html
Alberto Suárez Member Madrid, Spain   Spanish, English, French, Dutch https://www.eps.uam.es/~gaa
Jes Frellsen Member Copenhagen, Denmark   English, Danish https://frellsen.org
Paolo Papotti Member Paris, France Natural Language Processing Italian, English https://papotti.eurecom.io/
Joachim Denzler Fellow Jena, Germany Machine Learning for Earth and Climate Sciences German, English https://www.inf-cv.uni-jena.de
Simone Scardapane Member     English, Italian https://sscardapane.it/
Gennady Roshchupkin Member   ELLIS Health English https://www.roshchupkin.org
Christian Wachinger Member Munich, Germany   German, English, https://www.ai-med.de
Nicu Sebe Fellow Trento, Italy Multimodal Learning Systems English, Italian, Romanian https://disi.unitn.it/~sebe/
Christoph Bock Fellow   ELLIS Health German, English https://meduniwien.ac.at/ai
Martin Trapp Member Helsinki, Finland Theory, Algorithms and Computations of Modern Learning Systems English, German https://trappmartin.github.io
Alexander Brenning Member Jena, Germany Machine Learning for Earth and Climate Sciences German, English, Spanish https://www.geographie.uni-jena.de/en/brenning
Miguel-Ángel Fernández-Torres Member     Spanish, English https://miguelangelft.github.io/
Hongpeng Zhou Member     English, Chinese https://www.hongpengzhou.com/
Radu Tudor Ionescu Member     English, Romanian http://raduionescu.herokuapp.com
Jean-Michel Loubes Member   Human-centric Machine Learning French, Spanish, English https://gems-ai.aniti.fr/jean-michel-loubes/
Adrian Weller Scholar Cambridge, UK Human-centric Machine Learning English http://mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/adrian
Vincent Fortuin Member Munich, Germany   English, German https://fortuin.github.io/
Bruno Lepri Fellow Trento, Italy Human-centric Machine Learning Italian, English  
Gemma Roig Member     English, Spanish, Catalan, Italian https://www.cvai.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/
Nadav Cohen Scholar Tel Aviv, Israel   English, Hebrew https://www.cohennadav.com
Rebecca Killick Fellow     English https://www.lancs.ac.uk/~killick
Eran Yahav Fellow Haifa, Israel Semantic, Symbolic and Interpretable Machine Learning English, Hebrew, https://csaws.cs.technion.ac.il/~yahave/
Giovanni Iacca Member Trento, Italy   English, Italian https://sites.google.com/site/giovanniiacca/
Abhinav Valada Scholar Freiburg, Germany   English https://rl.uni-freiburg.de/people/valada
Mario Muñoz Organero Member Alicante, Spain ELLIS Health Spanish, English https://researchportal.uc3m.es/display/inv18527
Antonio Vergari Member Edinburgh, UK   Italian, English https://april-tools.github.io/
Anna Lukina Member Delft, the Netherlands   English https://www.annalukina.com
Bernd Bischl Scholar Munich, Germany   English, German https://www.slds.stat.uni-muenchen.de/
Robert Peharz Member Graz, Austria   English, German https://robert-peharz.github.io/
Nadja Klein Member     English, German https://kleinlab-statml.github.io/
Willem Zuidema Member Amsterdam, the Netherlands Natural Language Processing Dutch, English https://staff.science.uva.nl/w.zuidema
Marcus Liwicki Member     German, English, Swedish https://www.ltu.se/en/staff/m/marcus-liwicki
Damien Garreau Member     English, French https://sites.google.com/view/damien-garreau/home
Tom Heskes Fellow Nijmegen, the Netherlands   Nederlands, English https://www.cs.ru.nl/~tomh/
Sandro Pezzelle Member Amsterdam, the Netherlands   English, Italian https://sandropezzelle.github.io/
Stefano V. Albrecht Scholar Edinburgh, UK   English, German https://agents.inf.ed.ac.uk/stefano-albrecht/
Manuele Leonelli Member     English, Spanish, Italian https://manueleleonelli.github.io
Tilman Plehn Member Heidelberg, Germany ELLIS Health German, English https://www.thphys.uni-heidelberg.de/~plehn/
Yonatan Belinkov Scholar Haifa, Israel   English, Hebrew, https://www.belinkov.com
Bartosz Zieliński Member Warsaw, Poland   Polish, English https://bartoszzielinski.github.io/
Virginia Dignum Member     English, Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, French, (swedish)  
Piotr Szymańśki Member   Natural Language Processing English, Polish, German https://ai.pwr.edu.pl/author/piotr-szymanski/
Wojciech Samek Scholar Berlin, Germany   German, Polish, English https://iphome.hhi.de/samek/
Dario Zanca Member     Italian, Spanish, English https://www.dariozanca.com/
Indrė Žliobaitė Member Helsinki, Finland   English, Lithuanian https://www.zliobaite.com/
Venelin Kovatchev Member     Bulgarian, English https://vkovatchev.com
Elisa Fromont Member     French, English http://people.irisa.fr/Elisa.Fromont/
Ti John Member Helsinki, Finland   German, English http://www.infinitecuriosity.org/about/
Panagiotis Karras Member Copenhagen, Denmark   English, Greek https://cs.au.dk/~karras/
Adrian Hilton Fellow London, UK   English https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/adrian-hilton
Niki Kilbertus Member Munich, Germany ELLIS Health English, German https://sites.google.com/view/nikikilbertus
Iris Groen Member Amsterdam, the Netherlands   Dutch, English https://www.irisgroen.com
Sayan Mukherjee Member     English, Bengali https://sayanmuk.github.io/