Working for a positive impact of AI in society
Nuno Moniz is an Associate Research Professor at the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society. He is also the Director of the Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab and the Associate Director of the Data, Inference, Analytics, and Learning Lab. Moniz, who joined the University of Notre Dame in 2022, is an expert on machine learning, investigating challenges such as imbalanced learning, model interpretability, and data privacy, for which he has won multiple awards internationally. He is particularly interested in interdisciplinary efforts to understand the real-world impact of automated systems. Nuno’s team includes 11 people at the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoc levels while currently (co-)leading eight projects involving collaborations in six different countries.
Latest news
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New Interview for a Portuguese Newspaper
Nuno Moniz was interviewed for Diário da Lagoa, a local newspaper in Azores, Portugal. AI, its challenges, and distractions today were the main topics, without forgetting the potential of its applications in the archipelago, such as those in marine biology and fisheries, agriculture, and seismology.
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ND-IBM Tech Ethics Lab Call for Proposals is now open
The ND-IBM Tech Ethics Lab has opened its 2025 Call for Proposals on “Human-AI Collaboration”. According to Nuno Moniz, “This is a fantastic opportunity to explore frontier ideas on a pressing topic while enhancing or creating new partnerships with Notre Dame faculty.”
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Speaker at UN's AI for Good Global Summit
Nuno Moniz was a speaker at the UN AI for Good Global Summit 2024. As part of the session "Collective AI for Impact", the researcher discussed the topic with colleagues Nitesh Chawla, Virginia Dignum, Francesca Rossi, Nitin Sawhney, Caitlin Corrigan, Frank Dignum, and Kanshukan Rajaratnam.
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Keynote on 'History of AI'
The National Open University of Nigeria is leading a project supported by the ND-IBM Tech Ethics Lab to train 300 higher education educators in Nigeria and other African nations on AI ethics and sustainability. Nuno Moniz was the inaugural keynote speaker on the panel dedicated to the “History of AI.”
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Talk at Fraunhofer Portugal
Nuno Moniz gave a talk at Fraunhofer Portugal about a recent paper published in KDD 2024. The manuscript - "AnyLoss: Transforming Classification Metrics into Loss Functions" - was a collaboration with colleagues Doheon Han and Nitesh Chawla.
