Alfredo


    Alfredo Vellido


I am currently a full professor at CS / UPC, and part of the SOCO Research Group @ SGR IDEAI-UPC Research Center.
Founder and board member of the Spanish Society of Artificial Intelligence in Biomedicine (IABiomed)
Member of the
CIBER-BBN, IABiomed and the IEEE-CIS Ethical, Legal, Social, Environmental and Human Dimensions of
AI/CI (SHIELD)
Technical Committee and the Data Mining and Big Data Analytics Technical Committee,  in which I am
Chair of the
Explainable Machine Learning (EXML) Task Force and a member of the Task Force on Medical Data Analysis.
Member of the Editorial Boards of Neural Processing Letters and Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, Medicine and Public Health.

Special Sessions Currently Organized
IWINAC 2026 special session on Explainable, Robust and Trustworthy ML and its Applications, Fuerteventura, Spain

Some invited talks and articles:
La IA a la universitat, el cos del centaure (Diari de Terrassa 27/02/26, about AI and university education. In Catalan)
Impact of IA in the Health sector (In Spanish, Diada de les TIC a Catalunya '23): youtube video
Workshop on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
(UPF, Barcelona, Spain), 2019

"Social beasts: societal challenges of AI and ML in medicine" (youtube video) 


Some past conferences/special sessions/workshops over the last five years:
 
ESANN 2025 Special Session on Machine learning and applied AI in cognitive sciences and psychology, Bruges, Belgium.
IWANN 2025 Special Session on Explainable and Interpretable ML (xAI) with a focus on applications, A Coruņa, Spain.
IEEE SSCI 2025 Symposium on Explainable, Responsible, and Trustworthy CI (CITREx), Trondheim, Norway.
CIABiomed 2025 special session on Explainable, Robust and Trustworthy AI (ERTAI), Seville, Spain

                 CONTACT: alfredo.vellido _at_ upc _dot_ edu

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