Explaining the Black Box: when law controls AI

Alexandre de Streel is the Academic Director of the digital research programme at the Brussels think-tank Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE), professor of European law at the University of Namur and visiting professor at the College of Europe (Bruges) and SciencesPo Paris. He sits in the scientific committees of the Knight-Georgetown Institute (US), the European University Institute-Centre for a Digital Society (Italy) and the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (Germany).

His main research areas are regulation and competition policy in the digital economy (telecommunications, platforms and data) as well as the legal issues raised by the developments of artificial intelligence. He regularly advises the European Union and international organisations on digital regulation.

Previously, Alexandre held visiting positions at New York University Law School, the European University Institute in Florence, Panthéon-Assas (Singapore campus), Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and the University of Louvain. He also worked for the Belgian Deputy Prime Minister, the Belgian Permanent Representation to the European Union, and the European Commission. He has also been the chair of the expert group on the online platform economy, advising the European Commission.

Benoît Frenay is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science of the University of Namur. His main research interests in machine learning include support vector machines, label noise, efficient learning, graphical models, classification, data clustering, probability density estimation and feature selection.

He completed a degree in computing science engineering (spec. in artificial intelligence) in 2007 at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL). He then obtained a PhD degree in Machine Learning from UCL in 2013.