Francesca Toni
Francesca Toni | |
|---|---|
| Born | Tuscany, Italy |
| Citizenship | Italian |
| Alma mater | |
| Known for | Argumentation for explainable AI; Computational logic |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science; Computational logic; Argumentation theory; Explainable AI |
| Workplaces | |
| Thesis | (1995) |
| Robert Kowalski | |
| Website | www |
Francesca Toni is an Italian computer scientist who works at Imperial College London in the UK as JP Morgan/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Argumentation for Interactive Explainable AI, Professor in Computational Logic in the Department of Computing, and head of the Computational Logic and Argumentation Group.[1] Her research interests include explainable artificial intelligence, computational logic, argumentation theory, and applications in public health.
Education and career
[edit]Toni is originally from "a small town in Tuscany." Initially intending to go into mathematics, she switched to computer science in her last year of high school.[2] She has a laurea (the Italian equivalent of a master's degree) from the University of Pisa, earned in 1990, and completed a doctorate from Imperial College London in 1995.[3][4] Her dissertation, on abductive logic programming, was supervised by Robert Kowalski.[5]
After working as an intern in Japan and as a postdoctoral researcher in Greece,[2] she returned to Imperial College as a lecturer in 2000.[4] She was appointed as JP Morgan/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Argumentation in 2020.[1] She is conference chair of IJCAI-ECAI 2026.[6]
Recognition
[edit]Toni is a Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence[7] and the International Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.[8]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Professor Francesca Toni, Royal Academy of Engineering, retrieved 2024-01-22
- 1 2 "Francesca Toni", Equity and Diversity: Women in Computing, Imperial College Department of Computing, retrieved 2024-01-22
- ↑ Toni, Francesca, Other information, Imperial College London, retrieved 2024-01-22
- 1 2 "Francesca Toni", ORCiD, retrieved 2024-01-22
- ↑ Francesca Toni at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Conference Committee IJCAI ECAI 2026, retrieved 2026-01-23
- ↑ EurAI Fellows, European Association for Artificial Intelligence, retrieved 2024-01-22
- ↑ Elected AAAI Fellows, retrieved 2026-01-31
External links
[edit]- Home page
- Francesca Toni publications indexed by Google Scholar
