Francesca Rossi

Francesca Rossi is an IBM Fellow and the IBM Global Leader for responsible AI & AI Governance.

She is based at the T.J. Watson IBM Research Lab, New York, USA. Her research interests focus on artificial intelligence, with special focus on constraint reasoning, preferences, multi-agent systems, computational social choice, neuro-symbolic AI, cognitive architectures, and value alignment. On these topics, she has published over 220 scientific articles in journals and conference proceedings, and as book chapters.

She is a fellow of both the worldwide association of AI (AAAI) and the European one (EurAI). She has been president of IJCAI (International Joint Conference on AI) and of AAAI.

She has a long and deep experience in AI governance and best practices for corporate AI ethics and risk assessment.

She is a member of the board of the Partnership on AI and she co-chairs the Responsible AI working group of the Global Partnership on AI. She also co-chairs the OECD Expert Group on AI Futures and she has been a member of the European Commission High Level Expert Group on AI, that led to the European AI Act.

At IBM, she leads AI research projects and she co-chairs the IBM AI Ethics board, which provides the coordinated governance around all AI ethics activities for the whole company. Some of the assets that the board provides include an internal use case AI risk assessment process, several software tools, education material, developers’ playbooks, and AI risk analysis documents such as the recently published ones on generative Ai and agentic AI.