Candidate for: Executive editor, At-large member
BIO
Cassio obtained his degrees from the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), where he studied both at the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics and the Department of Mechatronics. He also obtained a Senior Research Qualification from Utrecht University (2018), Senior Member of ACM (2019), and elected member of the executive board of sipta.org (since 2011). His habilitation and doctorate theses were carried out on the topic of Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, in particular related to robust and interpretative machine learning models. He works on foundations of artificial intelligence and statistical machine learning, including probabilistic graphical models, imprecise probability, and computational complexity. In 2006, Cassio was an Assistant Professor at the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil). In 2007-08, he was a visiting research fellow at the Rensselear Polytechnic Institute (USA). From 2008 to 2014, he was a (senior) researcher at the Dalle Molle Institute in Switzerland. From 2014 to 2017, he was a Reader at Queen’s University Belfast (UK), and later an Associate Professor at Utrecht University, before joining TU Eindhoven in 2019. Cassio has served as panelist of multiple research foundations and senior committee/area chair of major AI/ML conferences. He participated in the organisation of ISIPTAs, and he is program chair of UAI 2021. Cassio will serve as UAI general chair in 2022.
STATEMENT
Cassio P. de Campos is currently an at-large member of SIPTA. His goal with the SIPTA appointment is to make credal models a key concept in reliable/cautious machine learning, explainable AI and causality, areas that have been growing considerably in the last few years.