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Dr. Markovich researches computational legal theory and studies its applications in Artificial Intelligence and legal reasoning. Her focus areas are legal knowledge representation, normative multi-agent systems, deontic logic, machine ethics, and XAI.

Dr. Markovich is the head of the Computational Law and Machine Ethics – CLAiM group at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Luxembourg. She serves on the board of the Foundation for Legal Knowledge-Based Systems, in the Steering Committee of the Society of Deontic Logic and Normative Systems, and she represents Luxembourg on the board of the Benelux Association for AI.

Dr. Markovich is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Logics, and the Artificial Intelligence and Law journal, and a corner editor for the Journal of Logic and Computation. In 2025, she was the Program Chair of the 38th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX 2025) and got appointed to chair the Doctoral Consortium of the International Conference on AI and Law.

Dr. Meneguzzi is a researcher on automated planning, goal and plan recognition, multiagent systems, BDI agents, and machine learning. He holds a Chair of Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen. Dr. Meneguzzi is a Senior Member of the ACM and of AAAI. He was a Professor of AI at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, where he remains as a Bridges Professor. He served as executive councillor for AAAI and board member for the AI special committee for the Brazilian Computer Society.

Dr. Meneguzzi’s work and service has been recognized by numerous bodies, including AIJ’s prominent paper award, AAMAS best blue-sky paper, ICAPS international planning competition, and multiple Google Research Awards. 

Dr. Sarkadi is an Associate Professor (Reader) in AI for Defence and Security and Royal Academy of Engineering UK Intelligence Community Research Fellow at the University of Lincoln. He directs the Hybrid Intelligence and Deception Exploration (HIDE) Lab and co-leads the new centre for AI in Defence and Security. Before that, he was a Proleptic Lecturer (Research Assistant Professor) at King's College London. His background is multidisciplinary, built on a PhD in Computer Science from King's College London, a Master's in Cognitive Science from the University of Edinburgh, and a Bachelor's in Philosophy from the West University of Timisoara.

Dr. Sarkadi is an inherently curious individual and a highly interdisciplinary researcher, aiming to understand the complex reasoning and behaviour of intelligent agents (humans or machines) inside social environments like hybrid societies, where humans, machines, and everything in-between interact. Broadly, areas of specialisation in AI include complex and adaptive multi-agent systems, agent-based modelling, and neurosymbolic architectures. In particular, he is interested in the topics of deceptive AI and deception modelling, self-explainable AI agents with Theory-of-Mind, and the ability of AI agents to build stories and narratives.