Today's guest is Dr. Luca Longo. Luca is an Academic, National Teaching Hero, AI researcher and TEDx speaker who has a deep passion for science. He is actively engaged in the dissemination of scientific material to the public as his TEDx talks demonstrate and has received various awards both for his research work and for his teaching.

With his team of doctoral and post-doctoral researchers, he conducts fundamental research in Explainable Artificial Intelligence, Defeasible Reasoning and Non-monotonic Argumentation. He also performs applied research in Machine Learning and predictive data analytics, mainly applied to the problem of mental workload modelling.

He is an advocate of motivational teaching and strongly supports learning through passion. Having gained invaluable education, work experience and international recognition he is strongly motivated to revolutionise the science of mental workload, pave a new research path with a significant impact for the future societies and become a world leader in his field.

In the episode, Luca will tell you about:

His research in AI and Automatic Reasoning
The importance and challenges of Explainable AI
Applying his research to positively impact society
Where he believes research among XAI is heading in the near future

E32 Dr. Luca Longo, TU Dublin Lecturer and AI researcher with ADAPT Centre