Marie-Francine Moens is currently a professor emerita at KU Leuven, Belgium. From 1992 to 2007, she was a researcher, guest professor, and associate professor at the Centre for Law and ICT, and later became a professor and full professor at the Department of Computer Science at KU Leuven.

She received the ERC Advanced Grant CALCULUS (2018-2024) awarded by the European Research Council. From 2012 till 2016, she was the coordinator of the MUSE project financed by Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) – Open of the European Commission. In 2021, she was the general chair of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2021). In 2011 and 2012 she was appointed as chair of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) and was a member of the executive board of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). She is currently associate editor of the journal IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI) and of the journal AI Open. In 2014 she was a Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) Distinguished Visiting Fellow. She is a fellow of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS).

Her research topics include, among others: Machine learning for natural language processing; representation learning for language grounding in the physical and social world; deep learning, latent variable models, and brain-inspired models; machine learning models for structured prediction and generation.

Tiago Sérgio Cabral is a Legal and Policy Officer at the European Commission, where he works in the European AI Office in the team responsible for AI Regulation and Compliance.

He is specialized in Artificial Intelligence, Data Protection and Cybersecurity. He holds a PhD in Legal Sciences – Specialization in Public Legal Sciences, a Master’s in European Union law and an LL.B. 

Before joining the European Commission, Tiago worked as a lawyer in various international law firms. He is also frequently involved in research projects and lecturing commitments.