Community of Experts
Welcome to the ELOQUENCE Community of Experts page
Here, we introduce our distinguished panel of professionals who are dedicated to guiding the ELOQUENCE project towards its mission of enhancing conversational AI technologies. This diverse group of experts brings a wealth of knowledge and experience, ensuring that our developments are ethically sound, inclusive, and aligned with European values. Through their strategic guidance and continuous evaluation, the ELOQUENCE Community of Experts plays a crucial role in shaping the future of secure, coherent, and unbiased AI interactions across various applications.
Full Members
Full members are the cornerstone of the ELOQUENCE Community of Experts, offering diverse expertise. These professionals lead our mission to advance ethical, inclusive conversational AI technologies. Their strategic input and rigorous evaluation guide the project, addressing AI challenges like context awareness, risk management, and interpretability. Their contributions are vital to shaping secure and unbiased AI interactions.
Ghasan Bhatti
Project Director
Expert in digital transformation and cybersecurity and commitment to ethical AI development ensure adherence to the highest standards of integrity and inclusivity
Ferdinand Ferroli
Director Policy & Research
A digital policy expert with a strong focus on responsible technology
Kai Hermsen
Co-Founder of Twinds foundation
Focused on establishing open-source “disposable identities” as a key technical enabler for building trust online
Amal Marc
Founder & Independent Advisor
She has delivered complex projects from legal affairs to consulting and program management, on behalf of public and private tech customers, as well as international tech regulators.
Miloš Mijomanović
Behavioral Scientist
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Holger Nitsch
Behavioral Scientist
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Nuria Oliver
Ph.D. Researcher in Law
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Julia Pshenichnaya
Ornithologist
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Sofia Tsekeridou
Postdoctoral Research Associate
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Sofia Tsekeridou
Senior Research and Innovation Manager
Experienced in project management, R&D and innovation activities, primarily in multimodal data management, AI and security/cybersecurity.
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Veterinarian
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Duško Martić
Head of Content Protection
Focused on anti-piracy activities, from detection and investigation to criminal proceedings and IP litigation/enforcement
Consortium Members
Consortium members are essential to ELOQUENCE’s success, offering unique perspectives and specialized knowledge. They collaborate to develop and implement advanced, ethical, and inclusive conversational AI technologies. Aligned with European values and standards, they guide the project’s direction, enhancing the reliability, accuracy, and transparency of AI interactions, particularly in safety-critical applications.
Stelios Andreadakis
Reader in Corporate and Financial Law
Expert in corporate governance and EU law, testified on EU fundamental rights before the European Parliament.
Alessio Brutti
Tenured researcher, head of the Speech Technology Lab
Expert in machine learning for speech, speaker verification, enhancement, localization, sound detection, and multi-modal tracking.
Giuseppe Caggianese
Behavioral Scientist
Expert in human-computer interaction, designing adaptive interfaces for augmented/virtual reality, with expertise in accessibility and usability evaluation.
Maja Fišić
Growth Advisor
Experienced Growth Advisor and Strategic Consultant with a robust background in tech startups, business creation, and product development.
Andreas Pamboris
Senior Project Manager
Experienced in managing and leading national and EU-funded projects with a focus on Systems, Distributed Systems, AI Systems, and Cloud/Edge Computing.
Đorđe Đokić
Partner at Privanova
Senior data protection executive with extensive experience directing international privacy compliance programmes.
Dušan Jakovetić
Associate Professor
Scientist focused on electrical and computer engineering as well as distributed learning, inference and optimization.
Tatiana Kalganova
Director of Center on AI: Social and Digital Transformation
Expert in covering the design and implementation of applied Intelligent Systems and green environmentally-friendly deep-learning approaches.
Meite Melero
MT team leader
Expert evaluator of European grant and project applications. Organizing workshops, and serving on boards related to language diversity and technology.
Helga Molbæk-Steensig
Post-doctoral researcher in the field of law
Expertise in European human rights law, focusing on AI’s impact on justice, and multidisciplinary policy and tech assessments.
Petr Motlicek
Senior Researcher
Scientist focusing especially on R&D activities in the domain of speech processing and spoken language understanding.
Haris Mouratidis
Professor and Director, Institute for Analytics and Data Science (IADS)
Expert in developing methodologies, modelling languages, ontologies, tools and platforms to support the analysis, design, monitoring of security, privacy, risk and trust for large-scale complex intelligent software system.
Theofanis Orphanoudakis
Project Manager
Research associate and independent consultant to several academic and research institutes, public organizations and private companies.
Oldrich Plchot
Senior Researcher
Senior Researcher, specializes in speech recognition, NLP, and dialogue system design, leading projects in EU-H2020.
Farhan Sahito
Partner at Privanova
Leverages his expertise in managing projects in cybersecurity, new technologies, law enforcement, standardization, business, and market strategies.
Martin Scheinin
Professor
Professor of constitutional, international, and human rights law, specializing in human rights assessment methodologies. Works on ethical, legal, and societal assessment
Jordi Luque Serrano
Ph.D. Senior Research Scientist
Leading expert in signal processing, time series analysis, and machine learning techniques,
particularly in speech, language, biometrics, and complex networks.
Alternate Members
The alternate members of the ELOQUENCE Community of Experts provide valuable support and diverse insights to our project. Ready to step in as needed, they enhance our multidisciplinary approach, ensuring continuity and comprehensive evaluation. Their contributions are crucial in maintaining the highest standards of ethical and inclusive AI development, aligned with European values.
Claudia Cevenini
Senior consultant & Adjunct Professor in IT Law
Focuses on digital and AI ethics, legal compliance, data protection, legal informatics, business innovation and start-ups. Independent expert for the European Commission.
Coen van Gulijk
Senior Scientist & Visiting professor & researcher
The first researcher in Europe to apply text processing for safety, focused on deep technical understanding of what text-analysis engines actually do.
Natalia Menéndez González
Research Associate
Focuses on technology and fundamental rights, specializing in privacy, data protection, and AI ethics.
Alexandre Quemy
AI Researcher
Research interests focus on the intersection of human rights, digital technologies, and environmental governance.
Francesca Palmiotto
Post-doctoral Researcher
Focusing on law and technology, Human Rights, AI governance, and corporate responsibility.
Katie Pentney
DPhil (PhD) Candidate
Focusing on government disinformation and freedom of expression, along with the capacity of traditional rights frameworks to respond to modern challenges.
Manuel Portela Charnejovsky
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Research interests in algorithmic fairness, responsible artificial intelligence and data governance.
Alberto Quintavalla
Assistant Professor
Research interests focus on the intersection of human rights, digital technologies, and environmental governance.
Anca Radu
Ph.D. Researcher in Law
Examines legal and ethical questions around the design, development, and deployment of AI systems in the judiciary.
Léonard Van Rompaey
Post-doctoral Researcher
His research focuses on robotics, AI, and Big Tech and he is the Coordinator of the Copenhagen Legal Tech Lab.