# Your Instructor This short course on *Continual Learning* has been designed and implemented by [Vincenzo Lomonaco](https://www.vincenzolomonaco.com/) with the help of the [teaching assistants](/about-us/teaching-assistants.md) and the feedback from the [ContinualAI](http://www.continualai.org/) community. ![Vincenzo Lomonaco](/files/YFylq8dWdPZ1vPAEpV41) [**Vincenzo Lomonaco**](https://www.vincenzolomonaco.com) is a 29 years old **Assistant Professor** at the **University of Pisa, Italy** and *Co-Founding President* of [ContinualAI](https://www.continualai.org/), a non-profit research organization and the largest open community on *Continual Learning for AI*. Currently, He is also a *Co-founder* and *Board Member* of [AI for People](http://aiforpeople.org/), Director of the [ContinualAI Lab](https://www.continualai.org/lab) and a proud member of the [*European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS)*](https://www.vincenzolomonaco.com/cv_and_contacts/). In Pisa, he works within the [Pervasive AI Lab](http://pai.di.unipi.it/) and the [Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning Group](http://groups.di.unipi.it/groups/ciml/), which is also part of the and the [Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe (CLAIRE)](https://claire-ai.org/). Previously, he was a Post-Doc @ University of Bologna (with: [Davide Maltoni](https://www.vincenzolomonaco.com/cv_and_contacts/)) where he also obtained his PhD in early 2019 with a dissertation titled [*“Continual Learning with Deep Architectures”*](http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/9073/) (on a topic he’s been working on for more than 7 years now) which was recognized as one of the top-5 AI dissertation of 2019 by the [*Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence*](https://www.vincenzolomonaco.com/cv_and_contacts/). For more than 5 years he worked as a teaching assistant for the [Machine Learning](http://bias.csr.unibo.it/maltoni/ml/) and [Computer Architectures](http://bias.csr.unibo.it/maltoni/arc/) courses in the Department of Computer Science of Engineering (DISI) at UniBo. In the past Vincenzo have been a *Visiting Research Scientist* at [AI Labs](https://www.vincenzolomonaco.com/cv_and_contacts/) in 2020, at [Numenta](https://numenta.com/) (with: [Jeff Hawkins](https://www.vincenzolomonaco.com/cv_and_contacts/), [Subutai Ahmad](https://www.vincenzolomonaco.com/cv_and_contacts/)) in 2019, at [ENSTA ParisTech](https://www.ensta-paristech.fr/) (with: [David Filliat](https://www.vincenzolomonaco.com/cv_and_contacts/)) in 2018 and at [Purdue University](https://www.purdue.edu/) (with: [Eugenio Culurciello](https://www.vincenzolomonaco.com/cv_and_contacts/)) in 2017. Even before, he was a Machine Learning Software Engineer @ [iDL in-line Devices](http://www.moistori.com/) and a Master Student @ UniBo. His main research interest and passion is about **Continual Learning** in all its facets. In particular, I love to study *Continual Learning* under three main lights: *Neuroscience*, *Deep Learning* and *Practical Applications*, all within a *AI Sustainability* developmental framework. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://course.continualai.org/about-us/your-instructor.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.