Prof. Enrique Sucar

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Dr. L. Enrique Sucar received his bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM). He received a Master degree in Computer Systems from the Stanford University and a PhD in Computing from Imperial College. He has been an invited professor at Imperial College, UK; the University of British Columbia, Canada; INRIA, France and CREATE-NET, Italy

Dr. Sucar received the National Science Prize from the Mexican President in 2016. He is Member of the National Research System, the Mexican Science Academy, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and Ex-President of the Mexican Academy of Computing. He has more than 300 publications in journals and conference proceedings. He has served as president of the Mexican AI Society, has been member of the Advisory Board of IJCAI, and has directed several international projects.

Prof. Nirmalie Wiratunga

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Nirmalie Wiratunga is a Professor in Intelligent Systems at RGU's School of Computing, and the Associate Dean for Research in the school, with over two decades of experience in computer science and AI research. She has held positions such as post-doctoral researcher on EPSRC funded projects, and was appointed Readership in 2009, and Professorship in 2016. Nirmalie is also an adjunct IDUN professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Nirmalie lead's the Artificial Intelligence & Reasoning Research Group (AIR) in the School of Computing. She has been involved in numerous funded AIR projects, including the development of human-centered AI platforms for explanation strategy recommendation; and the use of Case-Based Reasoning for Retrieval Augmented Q&A systems using LLMs. She was the keynote speaker for ICCBR’20, co-chair ICCBR’12 and ICCBR'22 and a senior PC member for IJCAI, AAAI and ICCBR for 5+ years.