Alfredo Vellido


I am currently a full professor (formerly a Ramón y Cajal researcher) at CS / UPC, and part of the SOCO SGR Research Group
and the IDEAI Research Center. Member of the
CIBER-BBN, IABiomed and the IEEE-CIS 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 PLoS ONE, Neural Processing Letters and Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, Medicine and Public Health.

CS academic coordinator at Escola Superior d’Enginyeries Industrial, Aeroespacial i Audiovisual de Terrassa (ESEIAAT)
Deputy Academic Director of the
CS department.

Special Sessions Currently Organized
The Coming of Age of Explainable AI (XAI) and Machine Learning, IJCNN 2023,
(Queensland, Australia)
Explainable AI in Healthcare (XAI-Healthcare 2023) Workshop, AIME 2023, (Portoroz, Slovenia)
Analysis of Molecular Dynamics Data in Proteomics, IWBBIO 2023, (Gran Canaria, Spain)
Some invited talks: 
1st Industrial Conference on AI and Health (ICAIH 2019
), Milano, Italy, 2019: "Cautionary Tales about the Application of AI in Health"
Workshop on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (UPF, Barcelona, Spain), 2019: "Interpretability, explainability, and rigurous validation of AI tools for clinical decison making"
2nd
Science for Dialysis Meeting: Artificial Intelligence at Bellvitge University Hospital (Barcelona, Spain), 2018:
"Social beasts: societal challenges of AI and ML in medicine"
(youtube video) 

Some past conferences/special sessions/workshops over the last five years: 
ESANN 2021 (virtual event) "Interpretable Models in Machine Learning and Explainable Artificial Intelligence"
IJCNN 2021 (virtual event) "Transparent and Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) for Health"
WCCI/IJCNN 2020 (Glasgow, Scotland, UK) "Explainable Computational/Artificial Intelligence Methods
"
IJCNN 2019 (Budapest, Hungary) "Explainable Machine Learning
"
IDEAL 2019 (Manchester, UK)
"Machine Learning in Healthcare"
ESANN 2019 (Bruges, Belgium) "Societal Issues in Machine Learning: When Learning from Data is Not Enough"

WSOM+2019 Conference in Barcelona, Spain
(June 26-28, 2019)



CONTACT: alfredo.vellido _at_ upc _dot_ edu
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