Farewell Talk

16:15 PM to 16:30 PM
Studio 4

As FARI’s co-founder and long-time advocate for responsible and human-centered AI, Hugues Bersini has played a pivotal role in shaping both the institute’s vision and the wider academic community. As he steps into retirement, we are honored to welcome him for a closing talk that will mark the conclusion of the conference. In this special session, Professor Bersini will share reflections drawn from a rich career at the intersection of science, ethics, and innovation.

Meet the speaker

  • Hugues Bersini

    SPEAKER

    Professor of computer science, Princeton University Director, Center for Information Technology Policy

    Hugues Bersini is a Professor in Université Libre de Bruxelles and Co-Director of the IRIDIA laboratory. He teaches Artificial Intelligence, Object-Oriented technologies (UML, Design Patterns, Python, Java, .Net, Kotlin ...) and Web Programming (Django/Python) both for academics and for entreprises. He is a member of the Belgium Royal Academy of Science. 

    His main research interests are modelling and control of complex systems, neural networks and fuzzy control, data/graph/text mining, autonomous agents and dynamics of biological networks, computational chemistry, immune engineering, cognitive sciences, bioinformatics and object-oriented technology.

    He has written several french books essentially dedicated to computer science. Some go along his teaching activity and have become with the years quite popular in the academic world. Others are essays to help readers to better understand complex systems. And finally two books at the crossroad between science and fictions.