Fausto Giunchiglia

Prof. Fausto Giunchiglia is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Trento and holds prestigious fellowships from EURAI and the Academia Europaea. His research focuses on computational models of the mind, knowledge representation, and diversity-aware data-driven social innovation. He has supervised over 100 doctoral/post-doctoral students and contributed to interdisciplinary projects like the Knowdive Group and DataScientia Initiative.

Education and Career: Studied/Worked at Universities of Genoa, Stanford, Edinburgh; served as Vice-Rector of the University of Trento, coordinated national/international research programs, and held leadership roles in organizations like IJCAI and KR, Inc.

Research Interests: Explores how knowledge is grounded in unknowns, with applications in AI ethics, cultural heritage preservation, and low-resource language processing. His work bridges theory and technology transfer, including roles in the European Research Council and Italian National Research Programs.

Awards: Ten Best Paper Awards, over fifty invited talks, and chair roles at major conferences (e.g., ICDCS 2020, IJCAI 2005). Editorial roles include the Journal of Data Semantics and Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research.

Grants/Initiatives: Spearheaded platforms like QROWD for citizen-driven smart city analytics and WeNet for social interaction integration. His current focus includes mitigating language model biases and advancing pluriversal design in language technology.