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H. Jaap van den Herik
Faculty of Computer Science and Faculty of Law, Leiden University
Netherlands
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Brief Bio
Jaap van den Herik is one of the Founders of the Netherlands Foundation of Artificial Intelligence (1981), nowadays called *BNVKI – Benelux Association for Artificial Intelligence (Honorary member). See https://ii.tudelft.nl/bnvki/?p=1790
He is a visionary professor who predicted in 1991 that machines would judge court cases and replace judges in the future (1991).
He started as a frontrunner in computer-chess research (1983). He was able to attract many talented researchers and has been the successful supervisor of 93 Ph.D. researchers.
As Professor of Law and Computer Science at Leiden Univer
sity, Leiden, the Netherlands, he is now finalising by the supervision of four Ph.D students.
For ICAART Jaap has been active in all possible roles (from participant to keynote speaker and session chair, and later to program chair and conference chair).
His current research interests are: Legal Technologies, and Intelligent Systems for Law Applications, e-discovery, Computer Games, Serious Games, Big Data, Machine Learning, Adaptive Agents, Neural Networks, Information Retrieval, and e-Humanities.
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Ana Paula Rocha
LIACC / FEUP, University of Porto
Portugal
http://www.fe.up.pt/~arocha
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Brief Bio
Ana Paula Rocha is an Auxiliary Professor at the Department of Computing Engineering, University of Porto.
She participated in European as well as national funded projects involving advanced features of intelligent agents for applications.
She is member of DAIAS (Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Agent-based Simulation) group at LIACC (Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science) since 1990. She is also member of APPIA (Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence).
Her main current research topics of interest include Agent-based frameworks for B2B electronic commerce,
Multi-Agent Learning, Negotiation, Argumentation and Trust. She participated in the organization of workshops related to Artificial Intelligence and Multi Agent Systems, as well as in the Program Committee of several conferences in these areas.
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Luc Steels
Free University of Brussels, VUB AI Lab, Brussels
Belgium
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Brief Bio
Luc Steels studied computer science and AI at MIT (USA) and became a professor of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the University of Brussels (VUB) in 1983. He founded the VUB AI Lab. In 1996, Steels founded the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris. From 2011, he became an ICREA research fellow at the Institute for Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC) in Barcelona. From 2022, he worked in Venice at Ca’Foscari University and Venice International University. He is now prof. emeritus at the University of Brussels (VUB). Steels pursued his interests in many areas of AI, including knowledge-based systems, behavior-base
d robotics, Artificial Life, computational linguistics, and music. Most recently, he has been focusing on self-awareness in embodied AI and on the history of AI. His recent book is on the latter topic (https://zenodo.org/records/18205480).
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