The ELLIS network unit of excellence in artificial intelligence opens in Barcelona
The UAB and the CVC form part of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), the pan-European network of excellence in artificial intelligence that connects the best researchers in this field in Europe. The inauguration of the ELLIS Unit in Barcelona will take place this Friday 12 June at 11 a.m., with the presence of Minister for Research and Universities Joaquim Nadal, and Minister for Business and Labour Roger Torrent, in the Prat de la Riba Room of the Institute for Catalan Studies.
The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the Computer Vision Center (CVC) are part of the new ELLIS Barcelona Unit, the third largest of the 39 that make up the pan-European network of excellence in artificial intelligence created to connect the best researchers in this field throughout Europe. The ELLIS Barcelona Unit connects the scientific community of five universities and four research centres of the Catalan knowledge system. In addition to the UAB and the CVC, the network includes the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC), also on the UAB campus, the University of Barcelona (UB), the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), the Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics (IRI/CSIC-UPC), and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS).
The inauguration of the ELLIS Unit in Barcelona will take place this Friday 12 July at 11 a.m., with the presence of Minister for Research and Universities Joaquim Nadal, and Minister for Enterprise and Labour Roger Torrent, in the Prat de la Riba Room of the Institute for Catalan Studies. The event will also be attended by Carme Torras, director of the ELLIS Unit in Barcelona, Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, co-director of the ELLIS Unit in Milan, Dimosthenis Karatzas, co-director of the ELLIS Barcelona Unit, professor in the Department of Computer Science at the UAB and associate director of the Computer Vision Center (CVC), and Oriol Vinyals, Gemini's technical manager at Google DeepMind.
From Catalonia, the new unit will promote interdisciplinary and cross-curricular research in artificial intelligence, foster strong links with the industry, and train the next generation of outstanding talent in this field. Its scope of work will focus on fundamental research in machine learning and related fields such as vision, robotics and natural language processing.