AI4I FOUNDATION
Piazza Piemonte 1, 10127 Torino
AI4I
AI4I has been founded by the Italian Government to perform transformative application-oriented research in Artificial Intelligence, contributing to innovation, industrial transformation, and economic growth.
With a firm institutional commitment and a long-term national funding, AI4I aims to grow fast as the leading national AI Center, shaping the research and development AI agenda in Italy and in Europe. To this purpose, AI4I will build on an on-premise HPC cluster and on the Leonardo HPC system (CINECA). Moreover, AI4I will leverage a key strategic partnership with the Italian Institute of Technology and a unique scientific, industrial and financial ecosystem.
AI4I aims to attract and empower a new generation of AI leaders in research and innovation, also thanks to competitive and incentive-based compensation schemes.
Board
Fabio Pammolli is a Professor of Economics and Finance at the Politecnico di Milano. From 2015 to 2020, he was a member of the Investment Committee of the European Fund for Strategic Investments. He is currently the Chairman of the Investment Committee of InvestEU and serves as an economic advisor to the Italian Minister of Economy and Finance. He has held leadership roles in the governance of universities and research centers in Italy and abroad. Notably, he served as the founding Director of the IMT School of Advanced Studies in Lucca (https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/13/world/europe/13iht-educlede13.html). He has been a visiting scientist at Boston University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, the London School of Economics, and Sciences Po (OFCE). He has held board member roles in large corporations and served as an advisor for private equity and infrastructure funds.
Giovanni Anastasi, 58, born in Turin, holds a degree in Political Science. Currently serving as the Executive Chairman at Formez PA, he is an expert in digitalization and change management at both national and international levels. Over his extensive career, he has developed skills ranging from industrial processes to back-office services. Anastasi has held leading roles at Ita Airways, Teksid Aluminum, Iveco, and CNH Industrial. He also has a strong background in consultancy, having been a senior account at Accenture.
Andrea Bertolini is Associate Professor of Private Law at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, and the director of the Centre of Excellence on the Regulation of Robotics and AI (EURA, www.eura.santannapisa.it). His published research ranges from private law to technology regulation. On such matters, he consults national, international, and European policy makers. Prof. Bertolini graduated (undergraduate and Phd) from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and (undergraduate) the University of Pisa and holds an LL.M. from Yale Law School. He is an attorney licensed to practice in Italy and New York.
Duilio Paolino, born in Cuneo. Entrepreneur in the metalworking industry and partner of start-ups ranging from the mechanical to the medical field.
With the exception of a few years at the beginning of his career where he worked as an employee of a metalworking company he has always been a businessman and his company, earlier named Cosmo srl and later Agricosmo srl, is cooperating with important brands such as Kubota, CNH and John Deere.