# 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](https://course.continualai.org/about-us/teaching-assistants) and the feedback from the [ContinualAI](http://www.continualai.org/) community. 

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[**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.