Room D1.01, Sector D, first floor, Campus Est, USI-SUPSI, Lugano-Viganello
The speaker
Marcello Ienca is a scientist at the College of Humanities of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) where he leads the Intelligent Systems Ethics Group. Prior to that he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH). Dr. Ienca's scholarship focuses on the ethical, legal and social implications of Artificial Intelligence and human cognition, with particular regard to the interaction between brains and machines. His research has been published in journals such as Nature Medicine, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Machine Intelligence and Neuron. Ienca has been appointed as an expert advisor on bioethics and AI by the Council of Europe and is a member of the Steering Committee on Neurotechnology of the Organisation of Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD)