Cesare Alippi appointed scientific director of IDSIA

The Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA), a joint USI-SUPSI institute, has appointed Prof. Cesare Alippi as its new Scientific Director. Prof. Alippi is a professor at USI Faculty of Informatics and Politecnico Milano. The Institute's 35th-anniversary event on 26 September 2023 will feature an inaugural lecture to celebrate his appointment to the top management of IDSIA. "The appointment of Prof. Cesare Alippi further strengthens IDSIA's leadership during a crucial time for the development of artificial intelligence's role in society", - underlines the Director of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Studies, Prof. Andrea Emilio Rizzoli. "A leading researcher in his field, with a vast network of scientific collaborations in several countries, together with the other two Scientific Directors, Prof. Marco Zaffalon and Prof. Jürgen Schmidhuber , he will contribute to outlining future avenues of research to develop the IDSIA's scientific profile further". Cesare Alippi is a Pro-Rector for Internationalisation at USI, a Professor at USI Faculty of Informatics and Politecnico Milano (Italy), Visiting Professor at the Guandong University of Technology, Guangzhou (China), and Advisory Professor at the Northwestern Polytechnic in Xi'An (China). In addition, he has been Visiting Researcher / Professor at UCL (UK), MIT (US), ESPCI (France), CASIA (China), A*STAR (Singapore) and UKobe (Japan).