I completed my PhD at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Milan, as a member of the LUCI Lab and the PhilTech Research Center. Giuseppe Primiero was my supervisor. As a PhD Visiting Fellow, I worked with Vaishak Belle at the University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics.

My research interests lie at the intersection between philosophy, logic, and computer science. I worked on ontological, epistemological, ethical, and formal aspects of AI, including:

data ethics, algorithmic fairness
neurosymbolic AI, logics for modelling AI bias
assessment of AI-related risks
theories of computational correctness and the role of semantic intentions
validity criteria for AI-based simulations in science

Since May 2024, I am co-founder and researcher of MIRAI, a university spin-off that helps companies become more conscious of the social and ethical implications of their AI solutions.

chiara.manganini@unimi.it,

Department of Philosophy, University of Milan,

Via Festa del Perdono, 7 20122 Milano

News

🧑‍🏫 Starting from Fall 2026, I'll be teaching "Ethics for Interaction Design", a new BSc course offered at the Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano!

🎓 On April 2026, I've successfully defended my PhD dissertation Bias and Miscomputation. A Philosophical and Formal Framework for Machine Learning Unfairness reviewed by Sabina Leonelli (Technical University Munich), Viola Schiaffonati (Politecnico di Milano), and Vaishak Belle (University of Edinburgh).

🎉 My co-authored work "A Neurosymbolic approach to counterfactual fairness" has been accepted for publication in the journal Neurosymbolic Artificial Intelligence!

🧑‍🏫 I am the new teaching assistant of the AI & Society course held by Giacomo Zanotti at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano.

📄My first-authored paper Data speak but sometimes lie: A game-theoretic approach to data bias and algorithmic fairness has just been accepted for publication in IJAR, the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning!

🏆I've been awarded the 2025 Young Scholar Prize (best paper in Metaphysics) for my work A Sceptical Paradox of Implementation to be soon presented in Turin at the Annual Conference of SIFA (Italian Analytic Philosophy Society). The paper will be soon available in Philosophical Inquiries.