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22 Jan 2020 10:00

AI: round table with prof. Byoung-Tak Zhang, Seoul National University

Ca' Bottacin - Aula B, Dorsoduro 3911

Round table on future collaborations between Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Seoul National University Centre for AI

Byoung-Tak Zhang is POSCO Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University (SNU) and Director of the SNU Artificial Intelligence Institute. He has served as President of the Korean Society for Artificial Intelligence (2010-2013) and of the Korean Society for Cognitive Science (2016-2017). He received his PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in computer science from University of Bonn, Germany in 1992 and his BS and MS in computer science and engineering from Seoul National University, Korea in 1986 and 1988, respectively. 

Before joining Seoul National University in 1997, he has worked as Research Fellow at the German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD, now Fraunhofer Institutes) in Sankt Augustin/Bonn for 1992-1995.

He has been Visiting Professor at MIT CSAIL and Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, Cambridge, MA, for 2003-2004, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) for 2007-2008, BMBF Excellence Centers of Cognitive Technical Systems (CoTeSys, Munich) and Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC, Bielefeld) for the Winter of 2010-2011, and Princeton Neuroscience Institute (PNI) for 2013-2014. 

He currently serves as Associate Editor of Journal of Cognitive Science, Applied Intelligence, BioSystems, and the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (1997-2010). 

He has received numerous awards and honors, including the Red Stripes Order of Service Merit of the Korean Government, INAK Award, Minister of Science and Technology Award, Okawa Research Grant Award, Distinguished Service Award from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and Academic Excellence Award from the Korea Information Science Society.

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The event will be held in Italian

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Research for Global Challenges - Complexity

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