Team
Building a community of experts, collaborators, sponsors and stakeholders.
John Shawe-Taylor
Director & UNESCO Chair in AI
Davor Orlič
Chief Operation Officer
Mihajela Črnko
Chief Communication Officer
Kim Sevšek
Finance Management
Gašper Hrastelj
Chief Public Policy Officer
Marko Grobelnik
Chief Technical Officer, Digital Champion, AI researcher, Jožef Stefan Institute
Ervin Pfeifer
Business Development, Jožef Stefan Institute
Matej Posinković
AI researcher, Jožef Stefan Institute
Matej Kovačič
AI researcher, Jožef Stefan Institute
Joao Pita Costa
AI researcher, Jožef Stefan Institute
BUSINESS & IMPACT COUNCIL
The Center has setup a Business Council with the main goal to ensure that actions are taken and opportunities realised that will maximise the impact of the work of the centre in addressing SDGs. It will liaise with outside venture capital funds aligned with the centre in order to identify potential opportunities for basic funding as well as spin-out companies arising from different grand challenges and projects. It will provide input to the different Scientific Program Committees to ensure that challenges and projects can be prepared and will maximise the exploitation avenues available.
Massimo Preziuso
Chair Business Council
Samira Khan
Global Impact Engagement, Salesforce.org
Mark Minevich
Chief Digital Strategist
Chelsea Chen
Chief Business Communication Officer
Daniel Matkovits
Head of Influencer Ecosystems, Professional Services, Global Consulting Industry
Melissa Sassi
Global Head of IBM Hyper Protect Accelerator
Daniel Miodovnik
Director, Social Finance
Andreja Kodrin
CEO Third Millennium Knowledge, Founder Quintaum & Challenge: Future
Ben Younkman
Regional Director for Europe, Village Capital
Melina Sánchez Montañés
Managing Director, Innovation Fund
Cosimo Pacciani
Financial Executive
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME COMMITTEES
With special focus on research excellence, the Centre is undertaking vital work looking at different approaches of Artificial Intelligence towards UN SDGs. This work resulted in accompanying AI platforms, reports and white papers that were managed by the Chairs of the following Programme Committees:
Catherine Holloway
Professor and Academic Director, Global Disability Innovation Hub at UCL
PC Chair in AI and Assistive Technologies
Colin de la Higuera
UNESCO Chair in teacher training technologies with OER
PC Chair in AI and Education
Aidan O'Sullivan
Associate Professor in Energy and AI at UCL
PC Chair in AI and Climate Change
Mitja Jermol
UNESCO Chair on Open Technologies for OER and Open Learning
PC Chair in AI and Circular Economy
Delmiro Fernandez-Reyes
Professor of Biomedical Computing at UCL
PC Chair in AI and Healthcare
SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD
The Center is launching an interdisciplinary academic journal seeking academic papers that address the application of novel AI techniques to either advancing Sustainable Development or enhancing the measurement of KPIs associated with the SDGs.
James Hodson
Chief Executive Officer, AI for Good Foundation
Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing
Mark Coeckelbergh
University of Vienna
Ethical, Philosophical, Policy And Societal Dimensions of AI
Ricardo Vinuesa
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
AI for Sustainable Dev., Fluid Dynamics And Turbulence
Moses Thiga
Kabarak University
Health Informatics with a Focus on the Use of AI for Health
Yi Zeng
Professor and Director of AI Ethics and AI for SDGs, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Beijing Academy of AI
AI Ethics and Sustainable Development
Rayid Ghani
Professor of Machine Learning And Public Policy, CMU
Machine Learning for Social Good, Data Science and Social Networks, Applications of AI in Sustainable Dev.
Wayne Holmes
UCL Institute of Education
AI and Education, Learning Sciences, Social Science
Geraint Rees
University College London
Cognitive Neuroscience, Neural Mechanisms Underlying Human Consciousness in Health And Disease
Vipin Kumar
University of Minnesota
Data Science, High Performance Computing, Climate Change, Sustainable Development
Hamish Fraser
Brown University
Medical Science, Informatics, Clinical Decision Making, Global Health
NATIONAL CONTACT POINTS
The NCPs are the main structure to provide guidance, practical information and assistance on allaspects of participation with governments interacting with IRCAI. NCPs are across UNESCO member states. As the NCPs are nationalfocal points, the type and level of services offered may differ from country to country. There are currently 23 national contact points at IRCAI.
Lama Arabiat
Head of Artificial Intelligence and Innovation Division, Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship
Vladimir Aleksandar Radevski
South East European University, Tetovo
Ljubica Ilić Vojnović
Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development
Serbia
Sven Lončarić
Director of Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb
Amra Džidić
First Secretary, UN Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Markus Schatten
Head of Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Faculty of Organization and Informatics, University of Zagreb
Josip Mesarić
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing
Lukas Hatala
CEO, Neuromorphics Europe
Jonatan Lerga
Head of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity, University of Rijeka
Phoukhaoka Sacklokham
Director, ICT Center for Education and Sports, Ministry of Education and Sports
Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Jordi Ascensi Sala
PMO Manager, Andorra Research and Innovation, Actuatech
Andorra
Dominik Batorski
Research Professor, University of Warsaw
Poland
Petri J. Myllymäki
Vice-Director, Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence
Finland
Marko Perčić
Postodoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Engineering University of Rijeka
Croatia
Kadir Eren Gülsoy
National Education Expert, Ministry of National Education
Turkey
Alperen TOSUN
Sector Specialist, Turkish National Commission for UNESCO
Turkey
Alex Grech
Executive Director, The 3CL Foundation
Malta
Maxime HINSON
Directeur des Systèmes d'Information, Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche Scientifique
Benin
Ernesto Jorge Costa
Professor, University of Coimbra
Portugal
Eliaz Luf
Director of International Relations, Ministry of Science and Technology
Israel
Juan Pablo Salazar
Digital Government and Emergent Technologies Adviser, Ministry of Information Communications Technologies
Colombia
Peter Sinčák
Technical University of Kosice, Research Head of Slovak AI Center
Slovakia
CONTACT
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