Where: Le Nereidi Hotel, La Maddalena, Italy
When: 5th – 9th June 2023
The second edition of the “AI & Society Summer School”, organized by the Italian National PHD program in Artificial Intelligence, PhD-AI.it is dedicated to the PhD students of the “AI & Society” branch of PhD-AI.it, and open to PhD students of the other branches. Five thrilling days of lectures, panel, poster sessions and proactive project work, to advance the frontier of AI research together with internationally renown scientists. And plenty of social activities to mix up and build the community of next-generation AI researchers, innovators and professionals.
Partners
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| Italian National PhD in Artificial Intelligence |
Italian Ministry of University and Research |
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche | University of Pisa |
Program
| Monday 05/06 | |
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| 08:30 – 09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 – 09:45 | Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa, PhD-AI.it coordinator Welcome & Introduction |
| 09:45 – 11:00 | Panel |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Lectures |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Lectures |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Poster session |
| 14:30 – 16:30 | Project work |
| Tuesday 06/06 | |
| 09:00 – 09:45 | Lectures |
| 09:45 – 10:30 | Lectures |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Lectures |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Lectures |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Poster session |
| 14:30 – 16:30 | Project work |
| Wednesday 07/06 | |
| 09:00 – 09:45 | Lectures |
| 09:45 – 10:30 | Lectures |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Lectures |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Lectures |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Poster session |
| 14:30 – 16:30 | Project work |
| TBA | Social Dinner at Le Nereidi Hotel |
| Thursday 08/06 | |
| 09:45 – 10:30 | Lectures |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Lectures |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Lectures |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Lectures |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Poster session |
| 14:30 – 16:30 | Project work | Friday 09/06 |
| 09:00 – 09:45 | Lectures |
| 09:45 – 10:30 | Lectures |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Lectures |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Lectures |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 18:00 | Project work presentation and evaluation |
| 18:00 – 18:30 | Awards Ceremony |
Lectures
The lectures will take place during the morning from 09:00 to 12:30 (from Monday to Friday). They will cover 20 hours in total.
Poster Session
Each Ph.D. student will present his/her research activity/project with a poster, in prospect of the thesis proposal.
Each day (13:30 – 14:30 from Monday to Thursday) a group of about 12-13 students will present their research project (we will communicate the assigned to each day).
Project Work
The project work consists of a team work (Monday to Thursday, 14:30 – 16:30) each group will work to elaborate a research project proposal on a specific topic regarding Artificial Intelligence, broadly related to the AI&Society area.
Each proposal should be prepared by taking into consideration the following guidelines:
- Objectives and State-of-the-art: Specify the proposal objectives in the context of the state of the art in the research field. It should be clear how and why the proposed work is important for the field.
- Ambition and research challenge: Specify any particularly challenging or unconventional aspects of the proposal, including multidisciplinary aspects and the possible ambitions of the proposed work that will advance the state of the art.
- Proposed methodology: Describe the proposed methodology including any intermediate goals. Explain and justify the methodology in relation to the state of the art, and particularly novel or unconventional aspects addressing the ‘high-risk/high-gain’ balance. Highlight methods and data will be used in order to reach the proposed objectives.
- Case studies: Describe and discuss possible case studies and application scenarios that could be useful for demonstrating the potential of the proposed project.
- Impact on science, technology and society: Discuss what impact proposed work will have if successful, such as how it may open up new horizons or opportunities for science, technology, economy, social life, and industry.
The topic could be chosen by each group among the ones suggested by the Organization Committee (see next section), or proposed directly by the group.
AI & Society topics
- Social AI for smart-cities
- AI Challenges in the Social Media World
- AI impact on Education, Health and Labour
- Human-in-the-loop in AI
- AI for Cultural Heritage
- Explainable AI for synergistic Human-AI collaboration
- Neuro-symbolic machine learning, integration of Learning and Reasoning
- Lifelong (continual, incremental) Learning for Complex Data
- Human-AI Socio-technical Complex Systems
- Decentralized, Federated, Cooperative Learning
- Co-design methodologies for Trustworthiness-by-design
Organization
The PhD students have to form 8 groups.
The groups and the project work proposal topics should be defined in advance, before the beginning of the Summer School week, in order to allow the Ph.D. students to organize in time and work actively on the project during the Summer School week.
The guiding criteria for the groups’ creation are diversification and interdisciplinarity, therefore to help you in forming the groups, you could use this document https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1adc9gr-xNsDdlgfoSyY5ie-tl90SZF5d/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=113942079499093029955&rtpof=true&sd=true where all the Ph.D. student educational background and current research projects are reported.
Given the geographical distance among the Ph.D. students current different locations, it will be possible for them to use the virtual space of the AI-Colloquium (on Microsoft Teams) to facilitate communication and coordination between the groups. We have already created 8 channels (one for each group) that Ph.D. students can use for confronting and interacting remotely.
Objectives
The objective of the research Project Work afternoon activity is to realize a final presentation that will be evaluated by an evaluation Panel.
Project Evaluation Panel
- Fosca Giannotti, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
- Giuseppina Sgandurra, University of Pisa
- Giuseppe Prencipe, University of Pisa
- Rita Cucchiara, Università degli Studi Di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Presentation
The presentation will be carried out during the Friday afternoon (9th June 2023) from 13:30 to 18:00. Each group will have 15 minutes to present their own work.
Each group has to prepare some slides for a presentation of 15 minutes.
The group can select only one member who will present the project or can decide for a presentation with multiple speakers.
For the evaluation the panel will take into account:
- novelty of ideas
- motivation of the proposal
- multidisciplinary vision of the project
- proposal feasibility
Organizing Committee
- Maria Pia Di Buono (Università di Napoli L’Orientale)
- Daniele Fadda (ISTI-CNR)
- Simone Farinella, University of Pisa
- Anna Monreale, University of Pisa
- Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa
- Valentina Poggioni (Università degli Studi di Perugia)
- Giuseppe Riva (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)
- Vittorio Romano, ISTI-CNR
- Massimo Tistarelli (University of Sassari)