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The European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) is an European scientific network, whose mission is to promote research excellence and advance breakthroughs in AI, as well as to educate the next generation of AI researchers in a large pan-European PhD program. ELLIS comprises 39 laboratories (ELLIS Units) in 14 European countries devoted to research on machine learning and intelligent systems.
The Modena@ELLIS Unit, directed by prof. Rita Cucchiara, is composed of two research infrastructures: the first at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE), with AImageLab and AIRI, the AI Academy and the new NVIDIA NVAITC center established in Modena; the second at the University of Florence (UNIFI) at MICC. Computational grants are provided by CINECA, located in Bologna.
The 2023 Edition of the Phd School in "Large Scale AI for Research and Industry", organized by the Modena Unit, has called the participation of all ELLIS PhD students and Post-docs for a dense week of tutorials, lectures and hands-on labs with large-scale GPUs facilities from the Leonardo European Supercomputer. Here you can find application form, speakers and activity. Enjoy!
Latest news
2026-04-27
Rita Cucchiara's talk at ELLIS Sofia: Rethinking Multimodal Foundation Models
Prof. Rita Cucchiara, Head of AImageLab and coordinator of the Modena ELLIS Unit, and Sara Sarto, post-doctoral researcher at AImageLab, participated…
2026-02-08
The Modena ELLIS Unit renewed for another five-year term
ELLIS is proud to announce that 25 ELLIS Units have been successfully extended, following the reapplication process for Units that have been active f…
2025-11-27
The Modena ELLIS Unit hosts the Pre-NeurIPS Fest 2025
The ELLIS Modena Unit will host a local edition of the ELLIS Pre-NeurIPS Fest 2025 on November 27th, 2025 at the Modena Technopole. The ELLIS Pre-Neu…
2025-11-18
The Modena ELLIS Unit to Host the Next ELLIOT Project Meeting
The Modena ELLIS Unit is pleased to announce that it will host the next project meeting of the ELLIOT project from March 11 to 13, 2026. The event wi…