Bio: Massimiliano Pontil is Senior Researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology, where he leads the CSML research unit, and co-director of ELLIS unit Genoa. He is also Professor at University College London and member of the UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence. He has been active in machine learning for over twenty-five years, working on theory and algorithms, including the areas of kernel methods, learning dynamical systems, meta-learning, multitask and transfer learning, sparse estimation, and statistical learning theory. More information on Massimiliano’s research interests and accomplishments can be found here: https://www.iit.it/people-details/-/people/massimiliano-pontil.