Francesca Rossi
IBM Fellow and IBM Global Leader for Responsible AI and AI Governance; past president of AAAI and IJCAI
- IBM Global Leader for Responsible AI and AI Governance; IBM Fellow, IBM Research1
Francesca Rossi is an IBM Fellow and IBM's Global Leader for Responsible AI and AI Governance, according to the IBM Research profile. Before IBM, Rossi was a professor of computer science at the University of Padova for 20 years. Rossi's research covers constraint reasoning, preferences, multi-agent systems, computational social choice, and AI value alignment, along with ethical issues in AI systems; Rossi co-authored "Thinking Fast and Slow in AI," which proposes drawing on cognitive theories of human decision making to advance AI. The profile notes that Rossi has served as president of IJCAI and of AAAI and is a fellow of AAAI and EurAI.12
Work
Thinking Fast and Slow in AI (external site: arxiv.org)Published research
Co-author of "Thinking Fast and Slow in AI" (2020), which proposes a research direction for AI inspired by cognitive theories of human decision making; the IBM Research profile also lists a 2026 AAAI tutorial on SOFAI-LM, a cognitive architecture for reasoning systems built with LLMs.21
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- Professor of computer science (20 years), University of Padova1
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