Francesca Toni

Francesca Toni is an Italian computer scientist who works at Imperial College London in the UK as JP Morgan/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Argumentation for Interactive Explainable AI, Professor in Computational Logic in the Department of Computing, and head of the Computational Logic and Argumentation Group.[1] Her research interests include explainable artificial intelligence, computational logic, argumentation theory, and applications in public health.

Education and career[edit]

Toni is originally from "a small town in Tuscany." Initially intending to go into mathematics, she switched to computer science in her last year of high school.[2] She has a laurea (the Italian equivalent of a master's degree) from the University of Pisa, earned in 1990, and completed a doctorate from Imperial College London in 1995.[3][4] Her dissertation, on abductive logic programming, was supervised by Robert Kowalski.[5]

After working as an intern in Japan and as a postdoctoral researcher in Greece,[2] she returned to Imperial College as a lecturer in 2000.[4] She was appointed as JP Morgan/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Argumentation in 2020.[1]

Recognition[edit]

Toni is a Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence.[6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Professor Francesca Toni, Royal Academy of Engineering, retrieved 2024-01-22
  2. ^ a b "Francesca Toni", Equity and Diversity: Women in Computing, Imperial College Department of Computing, retrieved 2024-01-22
  3. ^ Toni, Francesca, Other information, Imperial College London, retrieved 2024-01-22
  4. ^ a b "Francesca Toni", ORCiD, retrieved 2024-01-22
  5. ^ Francesca Toni at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ^ EurAI Fellows, European Association for Artificial Intelligence, retrieved 2024-01-22

External links[edit]

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