Carlos Zednik

Carlos Zednik is an Assistant Professor for Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence at Eindhoven University of Technology, affiliated with the Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences department. He leads the Eindhoven Center for Philosophy of AI and participates in the alignAI (ERC) and ROBUST AI (NWO) consortia. His work bridges philosophy with AI and neuroscience, focusing on explainable AI (XAI), mechanistic explanation, and cognitive modeling.

• Education:
  • BSc in Computer Science and Philosophy, Cornell University
  • MSc in Philosophy of Mind, University of Warwick
  • PhD in Cognitive Science, Indiana University Bloomington

Zednik’s research investigates philosophical questions about biological and artificial intelligence, emphasizing:

• Methodological principles in cognitive psychology and neuroscience
• Norms and best practices for XAI in machine learning
• Knowledge representation in transformer models and large neural networks

His recent publications explore the integration of cognitive models into XAI, the role of Bayesian reverse-engineering in cognitive science, and the mechanistic explanation of network neuroscience. Zednik also contributes to international standardization efforts through ISO/IEC TS 6254 and DIN SPEC 92001.

Scientific Awards include fellowships from:

• DAAD
• Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation
• StandICT Fellowship

Zednik supervises PhD students Zeynep Kabadere, Michela Ghezzi, Céline Budding, Miriam Gorr, and Hannes Boelsen, while mentoring postdocs Manuel Barbosa de Oliveira and Philippe Verreault-Julien. His teaching spans philosophy of AI, ethics of machine learning, and decision theory, with innovation projects on generative AI in higher education.