We are pleased to announce that our opening keynote speaker for IGeLU 2024 is Pepa Atanasova.
Pepa Atanasova is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Copenhagen, where she specializes in artificial intelligence for natural language. Her research is dedicated to making artificial intelligence (AI) systems fairer, more accountable, and transparent through advanced explainability methods. At the core of her work is the development of systematic diagnostic tools that assess and refine explainability methods, ensuring they are accurate, reliable, and user-friendly. Her work on explaining automated decisions is particularly focused on tasks that require complex reasoning such as fact checking and question answering. Pepa’s PhD dissertation, Accountable and Explainable Methods for Complex Reasoning over Text, received awards from the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems and Informatics Europe. Her work has also been recognized in a special series published by Springer.