Francesca Toni

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Francesca Toni is an Italian computer scientist who works at Imperial College London in the UK as JP Morgan/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Argumentation for Interactive Explainable AI, Professor in Computational Logic in the Department of Computing, and head of the Computational Logic and Argumentation Group. [1] Her research interests include explainable artificial intelligence, computational logic, argumentation theory, and applications in public health.

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Education and career

Toni is originally from "a small town in Tuscany." Initially intending to go into mathematics, she switched to computer science in her last year of high school. [2] She has a laurea (the Italian equivalent of a master's degree) from the University of Pisa, earned in 1990, and completed a doctorate from Imperial College London in 1995. [3] [4] Her dissertation, on abductive logic programming, was supervised by Robert Kowalski. [5]

After working as an intern in Japan and as a postdoctoral researcher in Greece, [2] she returned to Imperial College as a lecturer in 2000. [4] She was appointed as JP Morgan/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Argumentation in 2020. [1]

Recognition

Toni is a Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence. [6]

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References

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  2. 1 2 "Francesca Toni", Equity and Diversity: Women in Computing, Imperial College Department of Computing, retrieved 2024-01-22
  3. Toni, Francesca, Other information, Imperial College London, retrieved 2024-01-22
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  5. Francesca Toni at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. EurAI Fellows, European Association for Artificial Intelligence, retrieved 2024-01-22