Barry O'Sullivan, FAAAI, FEurAI, MRIA (University College Cork, Ireland)
Professor Barry O'Sullivan is an award-winning academic working in the fields of artificial intelligence, constraint programming, operations research, AI/data ethics, and public policy. He contributes to several global Track II AI diplomacy efforts at the interface of military, defence, intelligence, and AI. Professor O'Sullivan is a Fellow and a past President of the European AI Association (EurAI). He is also a Fellow and a member of the Executive Council of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). He chairs the Advisory Board of the GRACE project at Europol, and advises the Leuven.ai institute ( KULeuven, Belgium) and the Computational Sustainability Network (Cornell University, USA). In July 2018 Professor O'Sullivan was appointed Vice Chair of the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on AI. In 2019 the HLEG-AI published: Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI (April) and Policy & Investment Recommendations for Trustworthy AI (June). In 2019 he became an advisor at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre. In 2019 Professor O’Sullivan was appointed by Ireland’s Minister for Health to the Health Research Consent Declaration Committee. In 2020 he was appointed Chair of the Oversight Board of Health Data Research UK (North). In 2021 he was appointed by the Minister for Health as Chair of the National Research Ethics Committee for Medical Devices. In 2022 he was appointed by the Minister for Trade Promotion, Digital & Company Regulation to the Enterprise Digital Advisory Forum. His awards include: Fellow of the European AI Association (2012), UCC’s Leadership Award (2013), ACP Distinguished Service Award (2014), Science Foundation Ireland Researcher of the Year (2016), UCC Researcher of the Year (2017), elected to the Royal Irish Academy (2017), Fellow of the Irish Computer Society (2018), Fellow of the Irish Academy of Engineering (2019), IPEC-EATCS Nerode Prize (2020), Science Foundation Ireland Best International Engagement Award (2021), Fellow of the Asia-Pacific AI Association (2022), Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of AI (2022).
Antti Ainamo (Aalto University, Finland)
Ainamo is based at Aalto University, Finland, and University of Tartu, Estonia. He is a pioneering researcher on topics such as coevolution and new and emerging forms of organizing (e.g. Djelic and Ainamo 1999, 2005) For the last four years, he has worked on forms of organizing in and around artificial intelligence (e.g. Ainamo et al. 2024). Earlier, he has contributed to European-African European Research Network Area with Africa as Scientist in Charge (Ainamo Lindy 2013) and as coordinator in Finland-U.S. efforts at the interfaces of management, computer science, civil engineering, global projects and ICTs (Ainamo, Artto, Levitt, Orr, Scott Tainio 2010. He is pioneering in bringing in creative and cultural industries and their institutional logics into traditionally non-creative and non-cultural industries (e.g. Taveter, Ainamo, Iqbal, Mooses Laanelepp, 2023). Currently, he is working in University of Tartu to develop the pedagogy and research at Sandbox (part of Aalto’s Global Design Factory Network). Antti has been professor or visiting researcher at e.g. Ume˚a School of Business and Economics, Tongji University in Shanghai, University of Oxford, Shanghai University, and Tallinn University of Technology. He has published in leading scientific journals such as Organization Science, Creativity and Innovation Management, Human Relations, and Research in the Sociology of Organizationns.
Jennifer Renoux (Orebro University, Sweden)
Jennifer Renoux is a senior researcher in Human-Machine Communication and Collaboration at the Center for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems, ¨Orebro University, Sweden. She is the initiator and one of the main organizer of the Communication in Human-AI Interaction workshop1. She was part of the organization team for the Demo track at AAMAS’18, and has served as program committee member in dozens of conferences. In parallel to her research activities, Jennifer is very active in Science popularization around Artificial Intelligence at different levels. She has been the co-president of the French group No Fake Science, writer of the op-ed “Health, Environment, Research: the scientific method overlooked by the media”, which has been published in 4 different newspapers in 4 different French-speaking countries. She has also been invited in the French podcast “Le Balado Scepticisme Scientifique” (The Skepticism and Scientific podcast) to give an introduction to AI, and participated to the first edition of the French-speaking competition ”My these en 180 secondes” (My thesis in 180 seconds).
Gabriel Gonzalez-Castane (University College Cork, Ireland)
Gabriel Gonzalez-Castane is a Senior Researcher in the University College Cork, and the Insight-Centre for data analytics, Ireland. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and a MSc on Technology from University Carlos III of Madrid on the topic of applied multiagent based simulations and sustainable computing systems. During the creation of the Trustworthy AI Guideliness he participated as taskforce on the deep dive process with the European Commission and the High Level Expert Group on AI. He has participated in dozens of European grants where he was doing different activities on research and management. He was a program committee on dozens of conferences and workshops, subchair of reproducibility of Supercomputing conference and organiser of several activities regarding fairness on AI during the last years, such as a workshop on ECAI 2023. Currently, his work is aligned to the creation of a European AI Ecosystem supported by the European Networks of Excellence on AI and the AI on-demand platform and services; and the research of new techniques to detect Bias and fairness in data and AI.
