Giovanni Sileno is assistant professor, member of the formed SIAS (socially intelligent artificial systems) research group at the Informatics Institute, part of the Civic AI Lab, and director of the Bachelor in Information Studies (Informatiekunde) at UvA (since 2023). He has been working in various fields related to AI and Computer Science research, contributing to diverse tracks as: computational legal theory, agent-based programming, cognitive modelling and information theory, computational policy design and policy operationalization. More recently, he started contributing to lines of inquiry on human and societal aspects of socio-technical systems.
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He took a PhD in AI & Law at the University of Amsterdam, a postdoc at Télécom Paris and Paris Dauphine University on cognitively-inspired computational methods, and a second postdoc at the UvA (in the Complex Cyber Infrastructure group) on regulating data-sharing infrastructures. Before academia, he graduated as Electronic engineer (Politecnico of Torino/ENSIMAG), worked as a business analyst at McKinsey & Co., as a freelance software developer, and as a musician.