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André Freitas

André Freitas

Associate Professor & Research Group Leader,  University of Manchester & IDIAP Research Institute

André Freitas is an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, an AI Group leader at the National Biomarker Centre (CRUK Manchester Institute), and a Research Group Leader at the Idiap Research Institute (Switzerland).

He leads the Neuro-symbolic AI Lab. His main research interests are on enabling the development of AI methods to support abstract, flexible and controlled reasoning in order to support AI-augmented scientific discovery. In particular, he investigates how the combination of neural and symbolic paradigms can deliver better models of inference.

He is an active contributor to the main conferences and journals in the AI/Natural Language Processing (NLP) interface (AAAI, NeurIPs, ACL, EMNLP, EACL, COLING, TACL, Computational Linguistics), with over 100 peer-reviewed publications. 

 

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