Summer School #1: Responsible Data & Decision Intelligence: AI and OR for Societal Impact
Date & Time: 30 September - 3 October, 2025 | 4-Days Summer School
Location: FORTH, Dougalis Room
Summer School Program
Summer School Website
Overview / Description
Within the EU-funded TwinODIS project, this compact four-day school offers an intensive sequence of expert keynote lectures and tutorial sessions to equip participants with a rigorous understanding of how Responsible Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research combine to build trustworthy Decision Intelligence Systems for public value (energy, transportation, climate resilience).
Topics:
- Artificial intelligence and decision making
- High-dimensional vector similarity search
- Computational argumentation
- Probabilistic forecasting
- Explainable optimization
- Large time series analytics and anomaly detection
- Causality networks
- Data-driven optimization in energy systems
Format & Features:
- Duration: 4 Days
- Format: On-site with expert presentations
-  Features:
        - Expert-led presentations
- Certificate of attendance (upon ≥ 80% attendance of the programme)
 
Registration form
Organizing Committee
Keynote Speakers
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            Prof. Themis Palpanas
            
 Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Université Paris Cité, France
 
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                     Prof. Pavlos Moraitis 
                
                
 Professor of Computer Science, Université Paris Cité, France
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                             (em) Prof. Rommert Dekker
                        
                        
 Professor of Operations Research, Quantitative Logistics, and IT, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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                    Prof. Ilker Birbil 
                    
 Professor of AI & Optimization Techniques for Business & Society, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 
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                        Dr. Paul Boniol 
                        
 Researcher, INRIA, France
 
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                            Prof. Dimitris Kugiumtzis 
                            
 Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
 
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                                Prof. Nikos Spanoudakis 
                                
 Assistant Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering, Hellenic Mediterranean University, Greece
 
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                                    Dr. Michail Giannoulis 
                                    
 Associate Researcher, FORTH-ICS, Greece
 
Tutorial Speakers
Important Dates
                                    Registration Deadline: 25th September 2025 
                                    Starting Date: 30th September 2025 
                                    Ending Date:  3rd October 2025