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Francesco Marcelloni
University of Pisa
Italy
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Short Bio
Francesco Marcelloni is full professor of Data Mining and Machine Learning at the University of Pisa. He is the Director of the Knowledge Hub on AI of the European Alliance Circle U., and coordinator of the multidisciplinary Good AI Lab and the public–private IT2PAO Lab at the University of Pisa. His main research interests include explainable artificial intelligence, federated learning, data mining for big data and streaming data, sentiment analysis and opinion mining, genetic fuzzy systems, and fuzzy clustering algorithms. He has co-edited four volumes, four journal special issues, and is (co-)author of a book
and of more than 300 papers in international journals, books and conference proceedings. Recently, he has received the 2021 IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper award and the 2022 IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine Outstanding Paper award. He serves as associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (IEEE), Information Sciences (Elsevier) and Evolving Systems (Springer).
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Niki van Stein
LIACS, Leiden University
Netherlands
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Short Bio
Niki van Stein is Associate Professor of Explainable AI at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, where she leads the XAI research group. Her research sits at the intersection of explainable AI, automated algorithm design and metaheuristic optimization, with a particular focus on using large language models to automatically discover and improve optimization algorithms.
She is the lead developer of LLaMEA, an award-winning framework for LLM-driven algorithm evolution, and has broad experience applying these methods to real-world problems in engineering, predictive mainte
nance, and scientific design.
Alongside her research, she is active in the international evolutionary computation and AutoML communities as a conference organizer, program committee member and editorial board member. She holds a PhD from Leiden University and previously co-founded and led a software company as CTO, giving her a strong background in bridging academic research and industrial practice.
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