Knowledge, innovation and industry to shape the future of Artificial Intelligence

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

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

IAS Summer School 2026
Let’s Shape!

 

September 19-24, 2026

CSP-IAS SUMMER SCHOOL

Artificial Intelligence and Parametric Design for Shells and Spatial Structures

  • CSP/IAS \Institute for Advanced Study
  • ARtIStE Research Team
  • 4S-Italian Association for the Studies on Shells and Spatial Structures

Shaping Intelligent Structures: Where AI Meets Shells and Spatial Innovation

Past Events

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.