 | Prof. Uli WeinbergCommunication University of China, ChinaProf. Uli Weinberg is the Vice Dean of the Film Academy in Potsdam, Germany, and the Head of the Animation Department. He is a senior juror for the German Animation Film Festival and SIGGRAPH, and the Dean of the "School of Design Thinking" at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) in Potsdam, Germany. In 2025, he was appointed as the Chief Education Advisor of the Hainan International College of Communication University of China and the Dean of the School of Design Thinking at Communication University of China. Prof. Uli is also the founder of the renowned Nonlinear Media Laboratory at Potsdam Film Academy, well-known across Europe, where he serves as the director and focuses on building interdisciplinary networks within nonlinear media. |
| Prof. Filippo FabrociniTongji University ,ChinaFilippo Fabrocini is Full Professor in the College of Design & Innovation, Director of the “Sustainable AI Lab”, and among the founders of the Tongji University “AI & Art Lab”. He is also affiliated to the Italy National Research Council (Institute for Computing Applications), Deputy Editor of the “Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence”, and Associate Editor of the journal “AI & Society”. His main areas of interest are Machine Learning, Quantum Neural Networks, Ethical AI, and Computational Art. Previously Filippo Fabrocini was Senior Researcher at IBM Research Center (1986 – 1992), where he worked in the Artificial Intelligence Team; Visiting Researcher in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (1987), where he worked with Prof. Herb Simon (ACM Turing Award/Nobel Prize); Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Gregorian University (1993-2001), where he held the Chair of Logic and then the Chair of History of Contemporary Philosophy (ad interim); and General Manager of the IBM Milan/Rome Business Innovation Center, where he managed a team of 40-45 headcounts including Creative Directors, UX Designers, UI Designers, Content Strategists, and IT Architects (2001-2010). In China, Filippo Fabrocini has been Full Professor in the Computer Science and Software Engineering Department at Sichuan University (2015 - 2016) and Full Professor in the Software Engineering Department at Beijing Institute of Technology (2016 – 2018) mainly teaching AI-related topics to Postgraduate students. Prof. Fabrocini got a Master in Philosophy (Rome, Gregorian University), a Master in Cognitive Sciences (Brighton, Sussex University), and a PhD in Philosophy, with a thesis on the Representational Theory of Mind. Speech Title: Aesthetic Mediation in Generative AI Art |
