# Towards Sustainable AI

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Hi! :smile: I am an [Associate Professor](https://www.luiss.it/faculty/357557) at the [Department of AI, Data and Decision Sciences](https://aidata.luiss.it/) at [Luiss Guido Carli University](https://www.luiss.it/) where I lead the [COLLAGE Lab](https://www.vincenzolomonaco.com/collage-lab) and I am part of the [AI4Society research center](https://www.luiss.it/ricerca/research-center-ai4society).  I am also the co-founder of [ContinualIST](https://www.continualist.ai/), a spin-off of the University of Pisa, a founding member of the non-profit organization [ContinualAI](https://www.continualai.org/), and the Principal Investigator of several research projects and industrial collaborations. In just six years of research following my PhD, I have secured over €2 million in funding, including the prestigious <mark style="background-color:$success;">Italian Science Fund (FIS) – Starting Grant</mark>, a <mark style="background-color:$success;">PRIN</mark>, and collaborations with international organizations such as Intel, Meta, Leonardo, and ESA. In the last 10 years, I published more than 80 scientific papers in top-tier conferences and journals on the topic of <mark style="background-color:$success;">Sustainable Artificial Intelligence</mark>. My pioneering research in the field of continual and decentralized machine learning has been recognized with the prestigious ["Marco Somalvico" Award 2025](https://aixia.it/en/premi/premio-intelligenza-artificiale-marco-somalvico-biennale/) from the [Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence](https://aixia.it/en/).

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<summary><mark style="background-color:$primary;">Previously...</mark></summary>

Previously, I was an Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the University of Pisa. Even before I was a Post-Doc @ University of Bologna (w/ [Davide Maltoni](https://www.vincenzolomonaco.com/)) where I also obtained my PhD in early 2019 with a dissertation titled [“Continual Learning with Deep Architectures”](http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/9073/) (a topic I’ve been working on for almost 10 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/). In the past I’ve been a *Visiting Research Scientist* at [KSSK](https://www.kssk.pwr.edu.pl/) (w/ [Michał Woźniak](https://www.kssk.pwr.edu.pl/users/mwozniak)) in 2024, [AI Labs](https://www.vincenzolomonaco.com/) (w/ [Fabio Cuzzolin](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=T8LkBTYAAAAJ\&hl=en)) in 2020, at [Numenta](https://numenta.com/) (w/ [Jeff Hawkins](https://www.vincenzolomonaco.com/), [Subutai Ahmad](https://www.vincenzolomonaco.com/)) in 2019, at [ENSTA ParisTech](https://www.ensta-paristech.fr/) (w/ [David Filliat](https://www.vincenzolomonaco.com/)) in 2018 and at [Purdue University](https://www.purdue.edu/) (w/ [Eugenio Culurciello](https://www.vincenzolomonaco.com/)) in 2017. Even before, I was a Machine Learning Software Engineer @ [iDL in-line Devices](http://www.moistori.com/) and a Master Student @ University of Bologna.

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<summary><mark style="background-color:$primary;">My main research interest...</mark></summary>

My main research interest and passion is about **Sustainable Artificiale Intelligence** in all its facets. In particular, I love to study it though the lenses of <mark style="background-color:blue;">Deep Learning</mark> and focusing mostly on Continual Learning, Decentralised Learning and Multi-Agents Interaction towards a <mark style="background-color:$success;">greener</mark> and <mark style="background-color:$success;">more democratic</mark> AI Development. My work has been featured by [Venture Beat](https://venturebeat.com/business/ai-weekly-continual-learning-offers-a-path-toward-more-humanlike-ai/), [Agenda Digitale](https://www.agendadigitale.eu/cultura-digitale/lia-attuale-non-e-sostenibile-cosa-cambia-con-lapprendimento-automatico-continuo/), [Lombardia Economy](https://lombardiaeconomy.it/ai-deep-tech-innovazione-quale-formazione-in-italia/), [Gazzetta dello Sport](https://video.gazzetta.it/tecnogym-l-allenamento-del-ciclista-nell-era-dell-intelligenza-artificiale/a9792c93-500d-4894-827e-201f38e07xlk), [UnipiNews](https://www.unipi.it/index.php/news/item/27376-intelligenza-artificiale-verso-un-futuro-piu-umano-e-sostenibile) and [Sole 24 ore](https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/universita-pisa-via-progetto-europeo-una-intelligenza-artificiale-AEZ0vFEC?refresh_ce=1). Notable research milestones include: 1) the [1st PhD dissertation on Deep Continual Learning](http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/9073); 2) the organization of the [1st Continual Learning in Computer Vision workshop at CVPR 2020](https://sites.google.com/view/clvision2020), 3) the release of [Avalanche: the reference open-source library for Continual Learning](https://avalanche.continualai.org/) (winner of the [W\&B Best Library award](https://sites.google.com/view/clvision2021#h.ej9wtbml9079)) and 4) the authorship of the [reference open-access course on Continual Learning](https://course.continualai.org/) (430+ students from 300+ institutions, 5k+ [YouTube views](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm6QXeaB-XkBfM5RgQP6wCR7Jegdg51Px)).

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Are you a ***prospective PhD student***? Do you want to join my lab as a ***Research Assistant*** or ***Post-Doc***? We are always looking for talented people to join our lab! Check out the [open positions here](https://vlomonaco.medium.com/call-for-interest-in-phd-post-doc-and-visiting-positions-on-continual-decentralized-8a2236ffebd2).
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### 📢 News

* <mark style="background-color:$primary;">\[Paper]</mark> [Continual Learning: Applications and the Road Forward](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.11908), the result of the recent Dagstuhl Seminar on [Deep Continual Learning](https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/seminars/seminar-calendar/seminar-details/23122)!
* <mark style="background-color:$primary;">\[Paper]</mark> [Design Principles for Lifelong Learning AI Accelerators](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-023-01054-3), published in Nature Electronics!
* [<mark style="background-color:$primary;">\[Conference\]</mark>](#user-content-fn-1)[^1] I am one of the Program Chair of [CoLLAs 2024](https://lifelong-ml.cc/) that will take place in Pisa!
* <mark style="background-color:$primary;">\[Book]</mark> My first edited book ["Continual Semi-Supervised Learning"](https://link.springer.com/book/9783031175862) is out!&#x20;

### 📧 Contacts

if you want to get in touch:

```python
print("vlomonaco AT luiss.it".replace(' AT ', '@'))
```

You can find me also on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/v_lomonaco), [GitHub](https://github.com/vlomonaco), [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincenzolomonaco/), [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rQLINtQAAAAJ\&hl=en), [Research Gate](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vincenzo-Lomonaco), [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBB2CDgfEl1rfSuUUSJ1s4w) and [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/vincenzo_lomonaco/).

### 🌍 Where

<mark style="background-color:$success;">Office #424</mark>, Department of AI, Data and Decision Sciences, Viale Romania, 32, 00197 Roma, Italia. You can ask how to reach my office at the concierge at the entrance.

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