Chairholder | Serena Villata

Serena Villata is the Scientific Director of  3IA Côte d'Azur. She is Research Director at CNRS, and a research fellow of the Institut 3IA Côte d'Azur since 2019. She has been the Deputy Scientific Director of the institute from 2021 to 2025. She is the head of the MARIANNE research team at Inria. In November 2021, she has been awarded with the Prix "Jeunes chercheurs et jeunes chercheuses" from Inria – Académie des Sciences. Her research area is Artificial Intelligence (AI), and her current work focuses on computational argumentation, with a specific focus on legal and medical texts, political debates and social network harmful content (abusive language, disinformation). Her work conjugates argument-based reasoning frameworks with natural language arguments extracted from text.

The goal of my research is to design and create intelligent machines with the ability to communicate with, collaborate with, and augment people more effectively. To achieve this challenging goal, intelligent machines need to understand human language, emotions, intentions, behaviors, interact at multiple scales, and be able to explain their decisions.