AI in Circle U.: Connecting Minds, Shaping the Future

As part of the Circle U. Knowledge Hub on AI, the University of Belgrade is proud to host AI in Circle U.: Connecting Minds, Shaping the Future.

This two-day online event brings together experts from the nine universities of the Circle U. Alliance to address the challenges of creating human centered, inclusive and equitable AI, as well as fostering the development and application of robust, ethical, safe, trustworthy and sustainable AI systems.

Each member university will present its latest work in AI through dynamic one-hour sessions, followed by engaging discussions. The event will culminate in a panel discussion aimed at summarising insights and setting the vision for future activities within the Knowledge Hub on AI.

Programme

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27 May

10:00 - 10:05	Welcoming words Kevin Guillaume, Secretary General, Circle U.
10:05 - 10:25	Introduction to the AI Knowledge Hub Prof. Francesco Marcelloni, Academic Director for the AI Hub
10:25 - 10:30	Opening the Symposium Prof. Miroslav Maric, Academic Director for the AI Hub
10:30 - 11:30	~~AI in Academic Medical Centers: Research and Implementation~~ ~~Prof. Alexander Meyer, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin~~ Explainable AI for Unsupervised Learning: Turning Raw Data into Scientific Insights Prof. Gregoire Montavon, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin The session is moderated by Prof. Mladen Nikolić.
11:30 - 11:45	Break
11:45 - 12:45	Examples of AI Technology R&D at the University of Oslo Prof. Stephan Oepen, University of Oslo Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Oslo Prof. Dag Haug, University of Oslo AI-Assisted Diagnosis and Treatment Fellow Natalie Halvorsen, University of Oslo AI in Law Studies and Governance for AI Prof. Malcom Langford, University of Oslo Learning about and with Generative AI Prof. Anders Mørch, University of Oslo The session is moderated by Prof. Mladen Nikolić.
12:45 - 13:45	Are We Strengthening Learning with AI, or Distorting It? Dr Chahna Gonsalves, King's College London Ethical and 'Respons-able' AI in Higher Education via Barad and Deleuze Dr Kieran O'Halloran, King's College London The session is moderated by Prof. Dražen Drašković.
13:45 - 14:00	Break
14:00 - 15:00	Decision Support Systems, Machine Learning Models, Learning Decision Support, System Models from Data Prof. Boris Delibašić, University of Belgrade Graph-based learning, Object tracking in videos, Fairness in AI, Applications of AI, Logic-based reasoning, Computational intelligence Prof. Mladen Nikolić, University of Belgrade Machine learning applications, Computer vision in object detection, Natural language processing, Using LLMs in education, AI in medicine and healthcare Prof. Dražen Drašković, University of Belgrade The session is moderated by Prof. Dražen Drašković.
15:00 - 16:00	~~RAG to build course tutors tailored to the course content~~ ~~Prof. David Janiszek, Université Paris Cité~~ The session is moderated by Prof. Dražen Drašković.

28 May

10:00 - 11:00	Computer vision for human pose and appearance characterization Prof. Christophe De Vleeschouwer, Université catholique de Louvain Representation Learning: Disentangling and Identifying the Underlying Factors of Variation Mathieu Simon, Université catholique de Louvain The session is moderated by Prof. Francesco Marcelloni.
11:00 - 12:00	Human-centered AI Prof. Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa A native-Italian challenging dataset to test the reasoning abilities of multimodal language models Prof. Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa Federated Learning of Explainable AI Models: A Step Toward Trustworthy AI Prof. Francesco Marcelloni, University of Pisa The session is moderated by Prof. Francesco Marcelloni.
12:00 - 12:15	Break
12:15 - 13.15	Gen AI in Teaching - A Miracle in the Works? Prof. Niels Lauritzen, Aarhus University A Good Explanation? Philosophical Foundations for Explainable AI/media/1241 /media/1241 Prof. Rune Nyrup, Aarhus University The session is moderated by Prof. Francesco Marcelloni.
13:15 - 14:15	Discussion and closing words