National High-end Foreign Expert Project
The National High-end Foreign Expert Project aims to collaborate with leading scientists who promote original innovations and key technologies, and make contributions to emerging disciplines. Foreign experts in this project are supposed to have a reputation in the international academic community as pioneers or founders, and have made significant contributions to their fields. They are expected to work in China for at least two weeks per year during the two-year contract period.
Project I: Argumentation in logic and AI
Period: 2019-2021
Leon van der Torre (University of Luxembourg)
Leendert (Leon) van der Torre is a professor of computer science at
the University of Luxembourg and head of the Individual and Collective
Reasoning (ICR) group, part of the Computer Science and
Communication(CSC) Research Unit. Leon van der Torre is a prolific researcher in
deontic logic and multi-agent systems, a member of the Ethics
Advisory
Committee of the University of Luxembourg and founder of the CSC
Robotic
research laboratory.
Mehdi Dastani (Utrecht University)
Computer scientist Mehdi Dastani is Professor and chair of the Intelligent Systems group of the
department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University and program leader of the
master program Artificial Intelligence. His research focuses on formal and computational models
in artificial intelligence. Inspired by knowledge and insights from other scientific disciplines
such as philosophy, psychology, economy and law, Dastani investigates and develops computer
models for autonomous agents whose behaviors are decided based on reasoning about social and
cognitive concepts such as knowledge, desires, norms, responsibility and emotions.
Project II: New generation AI and logic
Period: 2022-2023
Leon van der Torre (University of Luxembourg)
Leendert (Leon) van der Torre is a professor of computer science at
the University of Luxembourg and head of the Individual and Collective
Reasoning (ICR) group, part of the Computer Science and
Communication(CSC) Research Unit. Leon van der Torre is a prolific researcher in
deontic logic and multi-agent systems, a member of the Ethics
Advisory
Committee of the University of Luxembourg and founder of the CSC
Robotic
research laboratory.
Dov Gabbay (King's College London)
Dov M. Gabbay is an Israeli logician. He is Augustus De Morgan
Professor
Emeritus of Logic at the Group of Logic, Language and Computation,
Department of Computer Science, King's College London.
Mehdi Dastani (Utrecht University)
Computer scientist Mehdi Dastani is Professor and chair of the Intelligent Systems group of the
department of Information and Computing Sciences at Utrecht University and program leader of the
master program Artificial Intelligence. His research focuses on formal and computational models
in artificial intelligence. Inspired by knowledge and insights from other scientific disciplines
such as philosophy, psychology, economy and law, Dastani investigates and develops computer
models for autonomous agents whose behaviors are decided based on reasoning about social and
cognitive concepts such as knowledge, desires, norms, responsibility and emotions.
John-Jules Meyer (Utrecht University)
Prof.dr. John-Jules Ch. Meyer studied Mathematics with Computer Science and Digital Signal
Processing at Leyden University. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam
on a subject in theoretical computer science. From 1988 to 1993 he was a full professor both at
the VU in Amsterdam and the University of Nijmegen. Since 1993 he has been a full professor of
computer science at Utrecht University. At the moment he is heading the Intelligent Systems
Group. Currently he is also the director of the AlanTuring Institute Almere, which specializes
in multi-disciplinary research for the health sciences.
Project III: Machine ethics in cross-cultural context
Period: 2023-2024
Jan Broersen (Universiteit Utrecht)
Jan Broersen is professor of logical methods in Artificial Intelligence (AI). With a background
in mathematics, logic and computer science he studies AI from a humanities perspective. His main
interests are responsible AI, knowledge representation and reasoning, and logic theories of
agency.
Christoph Benzmüller (University of Bamberg)
Prof. Christoph Benzmüller is since 2022 chair for AI Systems Development at the University of
Bamberg. As an associate (apl.) professor he is also affiliated with the Department of
Mathematics and Computer Science at Freie Universität Berlin (where he has been the first UNA
Europa guest chair) and he maintains a close research collaboration with the University of
Luxembourg. In addition, he advises AI startup companies in Germany and abroad.
Marija Slavkovik (University of Bergen)
Marija Slavkovik is a professor at the University of Bergen in Norway. Her area of research is
Artificial Intelligence (AI) with expertese in collective reasoning. Slavkovik is active in the
AI subdisciplines of: multi-agent systems, machine ethics and computational social choice.
Edmond Awad (University of Oxford)
Edmond Awad is a Senior Research Fellow at The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and the
Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities at University of Oxford (secondment from University of
Exeter). Concurrently, Edmond is a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of
Economics and the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of
Exeter. In addition, Edmond is an Associate Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for
Human Development. Edmond’s research interests are in the areas of Ethics of AI, Computational
Social Science and Multi-agent Systems.