A hub for scientific excellence and high-level training
A talent magnet for international scholars
A bridge between academic research and industrial innovation
A Gateway to Global AI Talent and Innovation
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) is a key initiative of AI4I, developed in collaboration with the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation. It is designed as an open space where world-class researchers, industry leaders, and innovators come together to shape the future of artificial intelligence for industry. IAS is located in Turin and hosted at OGR Tech.
Our Vision
To foster a vibrant ecosystem where frontier research in AI meets the needs of the productive system. IAS promotes collaboration, knowledge sharing, and co-design, with AI4I acting as both facilitator and guarantor of scientific and technological excellence.
What We Do
- Organize advanced seminars and thematic workshops;
- Host international Lectio Magistralis;
- Launch training and mentorship initiatives for PhD students and researchers;
- Support networking activities with startups and industry players.
Upcoming highlights
November 19, 2026
IAS SEMINAR
Lorenzo Rosasco
Professor University of Genova & Principal Investigator IIT
A shallow story about sustainable AI
Past Events
November 04, 2026
IAS SEMINAR
Prof. Dr. Gordon Cheng
Technical University of Munich/intouch-robotics GmbH
Development of Embodied Multi-Intelligence Systems
October 27, 2026
IAS SEMINAR
Niao He
Associate Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich
Minima Selection in Deep Learning
October 21, 2026
IAS SEMINAR
Carlo Ricciardi
Full Professor of Experimental Physics at Politecnico di Torino
Physical Computing with Self-Organizing Memristive Networks
October 01, 2026
IAS SEMINAR
Fabio Roli
Professor of Computer Engineering at the Universities of Genova and Cagliari and Director of sAIfer Lab
Adversarial Machine Learning: Lessons I Learned over 20 Years and Challenges I See Ahead
September 29, 2026
IAS SEMINAR
Prof. Alaa Maalouf
Neubauer Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Haifa
Pixels as Concepts: Toward Open-Set and Generalizable Multimodal Physical AI
September 28, 2026
IAS SEMINAR
Perla Maiolino
Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford and Deputy Director of the Oxford Robotics Institute
The Robot Body as a Resource for Intelligence: Harnessing Sensing and Morphology for Physical Interaction with the World
September 3, 2026
IAS SEMINAR
Yee Whye Teh
Professor of Statistical Machine Learning at the University of Oxford & Research Director at Google DeepMind
AI Visiting Professor at NTU and NUS
Diffusion and flow-based models for inverse problems
July 27, 2026
IAS SEMINAR
Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Engineering Super-Human Senses with Intelligent Architected Materials
July 21, 2026
IAS FULL DAY WORKSHOP
WORKSHOP
The goal of the day is to foster dialogue between researchers, practitioners, and industry stakeholders on how Generative AI can be engineered, evaluated, and adopted in software development practice. In addition to technical presentations, the event will include structured discussion sessions to identify common research themes, open problems, opportunities for collaboration, and pathways for technology transfer.
Generative AI for Software Engineering: From Research Evidence to Industrial Impact
July 17, 2026
IAS SEMINAR
Lorenzo Mattozzi
Associate Architect at MVRDV
Fredy Fortich
Architect / Engineer, BIM and AI expert at MVRDV
Evolution of AI tools in Architecture _
July 16, 2026
IAS SEMINAR
Ali Jadbabaie
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems and Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, MIT
Attention Masks, Normalization, and Positional Encodings: A Systems theoretic Perspective on Large Language Models
July 15, 2026
IAS SEMINAR
Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi
Professor at the University of Milan (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Sequential Decision-Making: from Observations to Optimal Decisions
June 18, 2026
IAS SEMINAR
Pierfrancesco Urbani
CNRS researcher at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, CEA Saclay, France
Separation of timescales controls feature learning and overfitting in large neural networks
May 15, 2026
IAS SEMINAR
Massimiliano Pontil
Principal Investigator at IIT and Co-Director of the ELLIS Unit Genoa; Professor at UCL and member of the UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence
Learning Linear Evolution Operators: Theory and Applications
May 04, 2026
IAS SEMINAR
Davide Scaramuzza
University of Zurich, head of the Robotics and Perception Group
Agile Robotics: from Cameras to Neuromorphic Sensors
April 28, 2026
IAS SEMINAR
Andrea Ferretti
AI Research Engineer at Bending Spoons
From Benchmarks to Reality: Lessons from Deployed AI Systems
March 30, 2026
LECTIO MAGISTRALIS
Jürgen Schmidhuber
Co-Chair, Center of Excellence for Generative AI, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and Scientific Director, Swiss AI Lab, IDSIA
Past, Present, Future, and far Future of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
March 17, 2026
AI for Materials Design
Professor Sir Konstantin Novoselov
Nobel Prize in Physics; Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, USA; Founder and Director of the Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials (I-FIM).
February 12, 2026
IAS ROUNDTABLE
Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Discovery
February 2-5, 2026
IAS WINTER SCHOOL 2026
Cryptography and Machine Learning
4 days of lectures, workshops, and discussions with leading international researchers at the crossroads of cryptography and machine learning, from watermarking and data integrity to adversarial attacks and cryptographic hardness in learning.
January 19, 2026
Training Neural Networks at Any Scale
Volkan Cevher
November 25, 2025
Correlation and Causality
in Responsible AI
Pietro Perona
November 7, 2025
IAS Lectio Magistralis
BILL DALLY
Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Research at NVIDIA
EVOLUTION OF AI HARDWARE
How Deep-Learning Hardware is Improving the Human Experience
October 21, 2025
Trusting (Gen)AI: reality, dream or nightmare? A deep dive into causal AI
Marco Zaffalon
September 22, 2025
Dynamical Learning in Deep Neural Networks
Riccardo Zecchina
September 16, 2025
Efficient learning algorithms for model predictive control
Alberto Bemporad
June 30, 2025
Ensuring Physical AI Safety in AI-enables autonomous systems
Marco Pavone
Riccardo Mariani
IAS is part of AI4I’s broader strategy to position Italy as a leading actor in industrial AI and to enhance European technological sovereignty.
With the support of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation, IAS is a strategic investment to strengthen Italy’s technological sovereignty and build an open, resilient AI ecosystem.
