Keynote Speakers
We are very pleased to have acquired the services of an excellent selection of keynote speakers for the symposium The speakers and the titles of their talks are shown below.
Prof. Anna Esposito
University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", ItalyAn overview on mood/emotion research: the effects of gender and age of stimuli
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Prof. Gloria Phillips-Wren
Loyola University Maryland, USAThe Impact of Generative AI on Decision Making and Analytics
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Prof. Anna Esposito
University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", ItalyAn overview on mood/emotion research: the effects of gender and age of stimuli
Abstract:
In this talk I will present the current research performed at the Behaving Cognitive Systems (BeCogSys) laboratory at University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" on human’s ability to decode emotional expressions and negative mood. Implications for their automatic detection and effects of gender and age of stimuli will be discussed.
Biography:
Anna Esposito received her “Laurea” Degree summa cum laude from Salerno University with a thesis on Neural Networks (Complex System, 6(6), 507-517, 1992). She received the PhD degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Naples University “Federico II”, with a PhD thesis developed at MIT, RLE Lab (Boston, USA) on mathematical models of speech production (Phonetica, 59(4), 197-231, 2002).
Anna has been postdoc at the International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies, and Assistant Professor at Dept of Physics, Salerno University, where she has taught courses on Laboratory of Cybernetics, Neural Networks, and Speech Processing (1996-2000). From Nov 2000 to Nov 2002, she had a research professor position at Wright State University, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, OH, USA. Anna has been Associate professor (from 2003 to 2019) and currently is full professor in Cybernetics, Artificial Intelligence and Multimodal Communication at Università della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Department of Psychology, where she teaches course on Fundamentals of AI and Neural Networks, Cognitive and Algorithmic Issues of Multimodal Communication, Cognitive Economy and Decision Making. She is the head of the Behaving Cognitive Systems laboratory (BeCogSys, https://www.psicologia.unicampania.it/home-becogsy), the president of the Italian Society on Neural Networks (SIREN) https://www.siren-neural-net.it/, and the Chair of the IAPR Conferences & Meetings Committee, https://iapr.org/committees/conferences-and-meetings-committee.
During the last five years the lab participated/is participating to the H2020 projects: a) Empathic, www.empathic-project.eu/ and b) Menhir, menhir-project.eu/ , the Italian projects: c) SIROBOTICS, https://www.grifomultimedia.it/en/portfolio_page/si-robotics-social-robotics-for-active-and-healthy-ageing/, d) ANDROIDS, https://www.psicologia.unicampania.it/android-project, and SALICE: Socially-Aware Learning through Interactions in Crowded Environments, and the Erasmus project G-Guidance: https://g-guidance.eu/language/en/. Anna is member of the European Science Foundations (ESF) and the EU networks Cognition. She authored 300+ peer reviewed publications and edited/co-edited 32+ international books.
Prof. Gloria Phillips-Wren
Loyola University Maryland, USAThe Impact of Generative AI on Decision Making and Analytics
Abstract:
Generative AI (genAI) has burst upon the workplace over the past few years impacting how work is accomplished and by whom. In particular, the type of genAI called Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated the facility to provide analysis of data and what appears to be reasonable answers to questions posed and answered in natural language. The jury is still out on what tasks and whose jobs may be subsumed by genAI and LLMs. For example, in the area of decision making and analytics, creativity is often cited as a necessary part of analysis as the decision maker develops approaches to solve a decision problem. However, can genAI actually be creative when we know that it is a statistical parrot? In addition, should we trust analysis that we did not develop ourselves with human intelligence? In this discussion, we look at current research in genAI for decision making and go to the professional community for insight on how LLMs are being using to change analytics workflows. We conclude by suggesting future research questions related to decision making using this emerging technology.
Biography:
Gloria Phillips-Wren is a Professor in the Department of Information Systems, Law and Operations Management at Loyola University Maryland. She is a founder and co-editor-in-chief of Intelligent Decision Technologies (IDT) and Associate Editor of the Journal of Decision Systems (JDS). Dr. Phillips-Wren is a past-chair and Board Member of the Special Interest Group on Decision Support and Analytics (SIGDSA) under the Association of Information Systems (AIS), Secretary of IFIP WG8.3 Decision Support (DS), and leader of a focus group for KES in intelligent decision technologies. Her research interests and publications are in decision making and support, analytics, generative AI, healthcare IT, and strategic uses of technologies such as genAI. Her work appears in Omega, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Decision Support Systems, IDT, JDS, Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Expert Systems with Applications, Big Data, IT & People, among others. She has also published 13 books (including co-edited), along with numerous book chapters and conference proceedings.