Prof. Vassilis G. Kaburlasos
International Hellenic University (IHU), School of Engineering Department of Informatics, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering GR-62124 Terma Magnisias, Serres, Greece

Title: Computing with Semantics.

Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is typically pursued by computatable models, i.e. real-functions, whose domain is a Euclidean space RN for some integer N, where R is the set of real numbers. At “high level”, the achievements of AI can be attributed to capacities of digital computer hardware (Okeke, 2024) including: (C1) fast data processing and (C2) accommodation of vast data; at “low level”, data processing occurs by handling strings of 0s and 1s, which are interpreted as real numbers. In particular, AI currently is pursued largely by statistical models i.e. deep-learning models (LeCun, Bengio, Hinton, 2015) that carry out “number crunching” without involving any semantics during data processing. The latter is a major reason that AI models may produce blatantly wrong answers during testing when they are fed with spurious data during training.l intelligence has the potential to make significant advances in disease risk prediction, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment and to reshape the future of healthcare.

BIO: Vassilis G. Kaburlasos has received the Diploma degree from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1986, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA, in 1989 and 1992, respectively, all in electrical engineering.

He currently serves as a Tenured Full Professor in the Department of Informatics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering (at Serres) of the International Hellenic University (IHU), Greece. During 2019-2024 he served as an elected member of IHU’s Research Committee. He has been the founder and director during 2016-2023 of the HUman-MAchines INteraction (HUMAIN) research Lab (http://humain-lab.cs.ihu.gr/?lang=en) at the Department of Computer Science of IHU in Kavala having accessed projects of total budget over 5M EUR. He has been participant or (principal) investigator in 32 research projects, funded either publicly or privately, in the USA and in the European Union. He has been a member of the technical/advisory committee or an invited speaker in numerous international conferences and a reviewer of more than 50 indexed (WoS) journals. He has (co)authored more than 230 scientific research articles in indexed journals, refereed conferences, edited volumes and books. He is the co-owner of 2 patents in Greece and another 3 in Europe. His research interests include modeling of cyber-physical systems, including intelligent robots, with breakthrough contributions in the “Lattice Computing (LC) information processing paradigm” toward computing with semantics.

Dr. Kaburlasos is a member of several professional, scientific, and honor societies around the world including the Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and the Technical Chamber of Greece. Since 2019, his name is included in the top 2% of “career long” researchers worldwide in the field “Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing” according to Mendeley Data, http://doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw.2, http://doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw.3, http://doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw.4, http://doi.org/10.17632/btchxktzyw.6. Since February 2024, he is a member of the IEEE P3430 Working Group on “A Holistic Framework for AI Foundation Models”.