Steels, Luc

Engineering Sciences

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)

01 Sep. 2011 to 22 Jan. 2022

Phone +34933160836Ext.1836

Email luc.steels@upf.edu

Department Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut

Address PRBB- Dr. Aiguader 88

Keywords

Meaning and Undertanding in Human-centric AI
early history of AI
Origins of Language
Artificial Intelligence

Short biography Research interests Lines of research Publications Conferences & workshops Courses & seminars PhDs, masters & TFGs Dissemination

Short biography

Luc Steels studied linguistics at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). His main research field is Artificial Intelligence covering a wide range of intelligent abilities, including vision, robotic behavior, conceptual representations and language. In 1983 he became a professor of computer science at the University of Brussels (VUB) and in 1996 he founded the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris and became its first director. Currently he is ICREA Research Professor at the Institute for Evolutionary Biology (CSIC,UPF). Steels has been PI in a dozen large-scale European projects and almost 40 PhD theses have been granted under his direction. He has produced over 300 articles and edited 15 books directly related to his research. Luc retired in January 2022.