Professor Aniello Murano, at the scientific direction of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Aniello Murano, full professor of Computer Science at the University of Naples Federico II, will head the scientific direction of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2025, together with Ines Lynce, full professor of Computer Science at the University of Lisbon.

"An honor and a privilege for me to have had," says Professor Murano, "this prestigious role and to have shared it with my colleague and friend Ines. I could not have had," Murano continues, "better partners. We worked synergistically with the same ideals and scientific rigor, always aligned. Intensive work and the numbers have already rewarded us."

The 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be held in Bologna, Italy, October 25-30, 2025.

"ECAI 2025 is the edition of records," Murano claims, "we have increased by 20 percent the submissions of research papers, which are now double the number of the 2023 edition. We have 2,500 participants, and for the selection of the best papers we employed for the Conference alone, 2,500 experts appointed by myself and Professor Lynce."

The program includes about 60 workshops and 20 tutorials for the days of October 25 and 26, plenary sessions and the presentation of more than 700 scientific papers. Machine Learning, Computer Vision, robotics, Knowledge Representation Reasoning, natural language processing and multi-agent systems will be discussed.

"The numbers and the quality of the papers amply reward the hours of work spent in these two years, the Scientific Direction of ECAI," Murano concludes, "has given me the opportunity to learn and appreciate the professionalism and passion of colleagues who have come from all over the world to make their research contributions. Artificial Intelligence is a revolution that should be approached with competence and awareness, not demonized, it should be oriented, filtered by ethics, it should be used for the common good because it can be an extraordinary ally of mankind."