Dates & Sessions Info

Please find below the schedule and special scientific guest information.

Meetings List (Room 003, 15:00 - 16:30 EET):

Monday, 30.03.2026 – Focus: The why of AI: Uncovering cause and effect in observational data
Special Guest: Prof. Dr. Mario Figueiredo, University of Lisbon. The central challenge, is learning cause-and-effect from purely observational data. In this talk, after briefly surveying the field, this talk discusses recent advances in this area, focusing on the fundamental problem of distinguishing cause from effect.

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Monday, 26.01.2026 – Focus: Digital Topological Data Analysis for New Models of Explainability
Special Guest: Prof. Dr. Pedro Real, University of Seville. This edition explores a new paradigm in hypergraph neural networks that fuses advanced algebraic topology with neural learning techniques.

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Wednesday, 26.11.2025 – Focus: Neuro-symbolic AI for Computer Vision
Special Guest: Prof. Dr. Radu Victor Balan, University of Maryland. The idea we are starting from is to connect our previous experience in neuro-symbolic models with the field of computer vision and interpretability.

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Wednesday, 29.10.2025 – Focus: Common AI research directions
Special Guest: Prof. Dr. Calin Popa, Politehnica University of Timisoara. A hybrid approach to Open-Vocabulary and Application to Medicine.

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Wednesday, 17.09.2025 – Focus: Summer of AI and XAI
Special Guest: Prof. Dr. Marius Leordeanu, Politehnica University of Bucharest (he did not arrived in time for this session). Various presentations of AI summer schools topics and results.

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Tuesday, 24.06.2025 – Focus: Explain Vision AI
Special Guest: Prof. Dr. Nicu Sebe, University of Trento. Bias and trust in visual language models (VLMs).

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Monday, 26.05.2025 – Focus: XAI Reading Group within the Romanian AI Hub
Special Guest: Prof. Dr. Adina Magda Florea, Politehnica University of Bucharest. Explainable Artificial Intelligence Models with Applications for Sensitive Data (Medicine, Legal, Cybersecurity).

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Thursday, 30.05.2024 – Focus: Self-supervised contrastive learning and knowledge distillation. Varying the temperature parameter.
Special Guest: Prof. Dr. Calin Popa, Politehnica University of Timisoara. Prospective applications to CIL, Law, Cyber and Medicine.

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Monday, 11.03.2024 – Focus: SOTA of XAI Models for Thoracic Diagnosis.
Special Guest: Lect. Dr. Gabriel Cozma, Head of Thoracic Surgery Department, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara. We will discuss an upcoming review paper on XAI for Thoracic Diagnostics.

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