International Artificial Intelligence Summer School – IAISS 2025

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#IAISS2025, A Residential Summer School in AI & Generative AI for Science and Engineering

IAISS 2025 is a full-immersion 5-day Summer School in Tuscany on cutting-edge advances in AI and Generative AI with lectures delivered by world-renowned experts. 

Riva del Sole Resort & SPA @ Tuscany, Italy, Sept 21-25, 2025

Applicant *may* submit (during the Registration Process) a research abstract (max 2 pages; any format) for presentation. School directors and the scientific committee will review the abstracts and will recommend for poster and/or short talk.
Abstract must be submitted by Sunday March 23, 2025 during the registration process.

LECTURERS:
Each Lecturer will hold up to four lectures on one or more research topics.

Yuki Asano, University of Technology Nuremberg, Germany
Pierre Baldi, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Lucas Beyer, OpenAI, Zürich, Switzerland
Sam Buchanan, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, USA
Floris Geerts, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Sven Giesselbach, Fraunhofer Institute - IAIS, Germany & Telecom Systems
Chin-Wei Huang, Microsoft Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Vicky Kalogeiton, École Polytechnique Paris, France
Thomas Kipf, Google DeepMind, USA
Yi Ma, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Abigail See, Google DeepMind, London, UK
Michal Valko, Meta Paris, France

More Speakers TBA

TUTORIAL SPEAKERS:
Druv Pai, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Yaodong Yu, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Peng Wang, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

CERTIFICATE & 8 ECTS:
The International Artificial Intelligence Summer School – IAISS 2025 is a full-immersion five-day Summer School at the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA (Castiglione della Pescaia – Grosseto – Tuscany, Italy) on cutting-edge advances in AI and Generative AI with lectures delivered by world-renowned experts. The Summer School provides a stimulating environment for PhD students, Post-Docs, junior academics (only up to assistant professors), early career researchers, and industry leaders (and highly motivated, promising and brilliant Master students / BSc students). Participants will also have the chance to present their results with talks, and to interact with their colleagues, in a convivial, professional and productive environment.

PhD students, PostDocs, Industry Practitioners and Junior Academics (only up to assistant professors) will be typical profiles of the IAISS attendants. The Summer School will involve a total of 36–40 hours of lectures, according to the academic system the final achievement will be equivalent to 8 ECTS points for the PhD Students (and some strongly motivated Master Student – BSc Student) attending the Summer School.

Language: English.

To participate in the IAISS 2025, all attendants must

(1/2) register for the school (by March 23, 2025) and

(2/2) book accommodation at the school venue, “Riva del Sole Resort & SPA” (by July 23, 2025); all attendants must stay at the “Riva del Sole Resort & SPA”.

Once accommodation has been booked at “Riva del Sole Resort & SPA“, the participant must send this information (including the Booking Number) to the IAISS organizing committee (iaiss@icas.cc).

IAISS is a residential school, so all lecturers and participants must reside in the same Hotel (Riva del Sole Resort & SPA). No exceptions are made.

For privacy reasons, the Hotel cannot match people. If you have someone to share the apartment with, please send to the Hotel (booking.events@rivadelsole.it) the name, surname and email address. Otherwise the solution is to book an apartment in single use.
IAISS is organized as a non-profit scientific event.

Please note that only IAISS registered participants can book a room (in hotel or apartment) at the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA with the accommodation form attached in the registration email and with the IAISS Discounted Rates. The Booking Office of the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA will verify the names of the participants and the corresponding registration number to confirm the booking.

Course leader

Prof. Giuseppe Nicosia

Target group

The International Artificial Intelligence Summer School – IAISS 2025 is a full-immersion five-day Summer School at the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA (Castiglione della Pescaia – Grosseto – Tuscany, Italy) on cutting-edge advances in Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI with lectures delivered by world-renowned experts. The School provides a stimulating environment for PhD students, Post-Docs, Junior Academics, Early Career Researches and Junior Industry Leaders (and highly motivated, promising and brilliant Master Students). Participants will also have the chance to present their results with short talks and posters, and to interact with their colleagues, in a convivial, professional and productive environment.

PhD Students, PostDocs, Junior Academics and Junior Industry Practitioners will be typical profiles of the IAISS attendants.The School will involve a total of 36–40 hours of lectures, according to the academic system the final achievement will be equivalent to 8 ECTS points for the PhD Students (and some strongly motivated Master Student) attending the Summer School.

Course aim

The lectures will be delivered by world renowned experts in the field, from both academia and industry, and will cover both theoretical and practical aspects of Artificial Intelligence and Generative Artificial Intelligence.

ECTS Points

The School will involve a total of 36-40 hours of lectures, according to the academic system the final achievement will be equivalent to 8 ECTS points for the PhD Students (and some strongly motivated Master Student) attending the school.

During (or after) the summer school, PhD Students (or Master Students) who need it will tackle tasks/projects. All those interested in taking an exam or a project to obtain the 8 ECTS points must send an email to the organizing committee (iaiss@icas.cc)

Two-steps procedure for participating in IAISS 2025

To participate in the IAISS 2025, all attendants must

(1/2) register for the school (by March 23, 2025) and

(2/2) book accommodation (by the accommodation form) at the school venue, “Riva del Sole Resort & SPA” (by by July 23, 2025); all attendants must stay at the “Riva del Sole Resort & SPA”. Once accommodation has been booked at “Riva del Sole Resort & SPA”, the participant must send this information to the IAISS organizing committee (iaiss@icas.cc).

PayPal will be used to pay the registration fee.

Fee info

The Registration Fees cover: all school sessions, oral presentations, tutorials, PayPal/Bank service, VAT, all the scientific activities.