Speakers & Mentors 2022
Mentors
Mihaela Constantinescu (RO)
Mihaela Constantinescu is lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, and Executive Director of the Research Center in Applied Ethics (CCEA). Mihaela is currently the Principal Investigator of the national research grant on "Collective moral responsibility: from organizations to artificial systems. A re-evaluation of the Aristotelian framework" (CoMoRe), carried within the University of Bucharest. She has published on topics related to virtue ethics, business ethics, and AI ethics, focusing her research on the normative interplay between the concepts of moral responsibility and moral agency in relation to individuals, organizations, and AI. Before moving to academia, Mihaela has worked as a communications consultant in the private, governmental and NGO fields, and is co-founder of the Association for Education in Socio-Humanities (ESSU).
http://comore.ccea.ro/
Marinos Koutsomichalis
Marinos Koutsomichalis is an artist, scholar, and creative technologist. He is broadly interested in the materiality of self-generative systems, (post-)digital objecthood, sound, image, data, electronic circuitry, perception, selfhood, landscapes/environments, and the media/ technologies we rely upon to mediate, probe, interact, or otherwise engage with the former. He has exhibited or performed his work extensively and internationally and has held research or teaching positions in Greece, Italy, Norway, and the U.K. He is a Lecturer in Creative Multimedia at the Cyprus University of Technology (Limassol, CY) where he co-directs the Media Arts and Design Research Lab.
Fatih Sinan Esen
Fatih Sinan Esen was born in Ankara in 1984. He received his undergraduate degree from Bilkent University Computer Engineering (Ankara, Turkey), his MBA degree from Istanbul Bilgi University (Istanbul, Turkey) and his PhD degree from Gazi University Business Administration (Ankara, Turkey). After working for some private companies, he joined the government as Assistant Scientific Programs Expert in The Scientific and Technological research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), where he has been promoted to the senior position, Scientific Programs Chief Expert, in 2018.
Currently, he has responsibilities including the development of the Artificial Intelligence Technology Roadmap of Turkey and policies about digital transformation including. Academically, he has published many scientific articles, book chapters and has written a book published by an international publisher. Currently, his areas of concentration are artificial intelligence with a special focus on artificial neural networks and expert systems. He has been teaching AI courses in top universities.
His current areas of interest are Artificial Intelligence (especially Machine Learning and Deep Learning), Data Analytics and Text Mining, Social Media and Social Network Analysis and Marketing, Management and Organizational Behavior.
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