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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
Roberto Calandra Member     Italian, English https://www.lasr.org
Javier Alonso-Mora Member Delft, the Netherlands ELLIS Robot Learning: Closing the Reality Gap! English, Spanish https://autonomousrobots.nl
Nils Jansen Member Nijmegen, the Netherlands   German, English https://nilsjansen.org
Nadja Klein Member     English, German https://kleinlab-statml.github.io/
Matteo Saveriano Member Trento, Italy   Italian, English  
Arash Ajoudani Scholar Genoa, Italy   English https://www.iit.it/it/people-details/-/people/arash-ajoudani
Holger Caesar Member Delft, the Netherlands Machine Learning and Computer Vision German, English https://it-caesar.com
Jens Kober Scholar Delft, the Netherlands   English, German, Dutch http://jenskober.de/
Xucong Zhang Member Delft, the Netherlands   English https://www.ccmitss.com/zhang/
Long Tran-Thanh Member     English, Hungarian https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/people/long_tran-thanh/
Justus Piater Fellow   ELLIS Robot Learning: Closing the Reality Gap! German, English, French https://iis.uibk.ac.at/
Tim Rocktäschel Scholar London, UK Semantic, Symbolic and Interpretable Machine Learning English, German https://rockt.github.io/
Balazs Kegl Fellow Paris, France Machine Learning and Computer Vision English, French, Hungarian https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=s0njcGgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao ; https://twitter.com/balazskegl
Horst Bischof Member Graz, Austria   German, English https://www.tugraz.at
Giuseppe Averta Member Turin, Italy Machine Learning and Computer Vision English, Italian http://vandal.polito.it
Lorenzo Baraldi Scholar Modena, Italy   English, Italian http://www.lorenzobaraldi.com/
Nadav Cohen Scholar Tel Aviv, Israel   English, Hebrew https://www.cohennadav.com
Rebecca Killick Fellow     English https://www.lancs.ac.uk/~killick
Pedro U. Lima Member Lisbon, Portugal   Portuguese, English, Spanish http://users.isr.ist.utl.pt/~pal/
Pablo Lanillos Member Nijmegen, the Netherlands ELLIS Robot Learning: Closing the Reality Gap! Spanish, English, French https://therobotdecision.com
Cecilio Angulo Member Barcelona, Spain   Spanish, Catalan, English https://futur.upc.edu/CecilioAnguloBahon?locale=en
Michael Pfeiffer Member     German, English https://www.bosch-ai.com
Abhinav Valada Scholar Freiburg, Germany   English https://rl.uni-freiburg.de/people/valada
Eric Medvet Member     Italian, English https://medvet.inginf.units.it/
Renaud Detry Member Leuven, Belgium   French, English https://renaud-detry.net
Vincent Adam Member Barcelona, Spain   French, English https://vincentadam.com
Sven Behnke Member     German, English https://www.ais.uni-bonn.de/research.html
Jan Peters Fellow Darmstadt, Germany ELLIS Robot Learning: Closing the Reality Gap! German, English https://www.ias.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/Research/Overview
Dimitrios Kanoulas Member London, UK   English, Greek https://rpl-as-ucl.github.io/
Oier Mees Member     Basque, Spanish, German, English https://www.oiermees.com
Stefano V. Albrecht Scholar Edinburgh, UK   English, German https://agents.inf.ed.ac.uk/stefano-albrecht/
Tamás Szirányi Member     English, Hungarian, https://sztaki.hun-ren.hu/sziranyi-tamas
Vadim Indelman Member Haifa, Israel   English, Hebrew https://anpl-technion.github.io/
Bartosz ZieliƄski Member Warsaw, Poland   Polish, English https://bartoszzielinski.github.io/
Varun Kanade Scholar Oxford, UK Theory, Algorithms and Computations of Modern Learning Systems English https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/varun.kanade/website/
Danda Paudel Member Sofia, Bulgaria   English https://insait.ai/dr-danda-paudel/
Xavier Alameda-Pineda Member     Catalan, Spanish, French, English, Italian https://xavirema.eu
Laura Ruotsalainen Member Helsinki, Finland   Finnish, English https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/spatiotemporal-data-analysis
Dario Floreano Fellow Lausanne, Switzerland   English, French, Italian https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lis
Adrian Hilton Fellow London, UK   English https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/adrian-hilton