Luiz Chamon, the ELLIS-SimTech Independent Junior Research Group Leader at the University of Stuttgart and a member of the AI Institute, has been named a Scholar of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS). This prestigious recognition is part of the ELLIS Fellows program, which honors outstanding early-career scientists in the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) who have made significant research contributions.
Chamon leads the Information Systems Group, where he focuses on developing tools that empower intelligent systems to extract, process, and act on information. His group’s groundbreaking work includes:
- Extraction: Techniques such as sampling, sensor selection, and experimental design.
- Processing: Innovations in constrained learning, network data processing, and estimation/inference.
- Action: Methods for resource allocation, scheduling, resilient control, and safe reinforcement learning.
A key area of his research is constrained learning, which enables data-driven system design while adhering to critical requirements such as robustness, fairness, safety, smoothness, and invariance. His research addresses fundamental questions about this paradigm, such as:
- The feasibility of learning under constraints.
- The comparative difficulty of constrained learning versus standard learning.
- Problems uniquely solvable through constrained learning.
In addition, Luiz Chamon explores the impact of constrained learning on traditional AI tasks, such as image classification, semi-supervised learning, and data-driven control. By shifting the focus from objective-centric to constraint-driven design, his work introduces a transformative perspective on how data-driven solutions are developed.
As an ELLIS Scholar, Chamon will contribute to shaping the future of intelligent systems research in Europe, providing strategic guidance and advancing collaboration within the AI and ML community. He is a member of the ELLIS Unit Stuttgart, led by Professors Andreas Bulling and Ingo Steinwart, both recognized as ELLIS Fellows.