The 8th Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning – ACDL 2025 is a full-immersion five-day Course at the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA (Castiglione della Pescaia – Grosseto – Tuscany, Italy) on cutting-edge advances in Deep Learning, Data Science and Generative AI with lectures delivered by world-renowned experts. The Course provides a stimulating environment for PhD students, Post-Docs, junior academics (only up to assistant professors), early career researches, 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 ACDL attendants.The Course 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 Course.

Course Description: https://acdl2025.icas.events/course-description/

LECTURERS: https://acdl2025.icas.events/lecturers/
Each Lecturer will hold up to four lectures on one or more research topics.

Sanjeev Arora, Princeton University & Institute for Advanced Study, USA
Antoine Bosselut, EPFL, Switzerland
Sander Dieleman, Google DeepMind London, UK
Caglar Gulcehre, EPFL, Switzerland
Tatsu Hashimoto, Stanford University & Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, USA
Thomas Hofmann, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Subbarao Kambhampati, Arizona State University, USA
Joel Z. Leibo, Google DeepMind London & The Alan Turing Institute, UK
Lei Li, Language Technology Institute - Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA
Bryan Perozzi, Google Research, New York, USA
Raniero Romagnoli, Almawave, Italy
Liubov Tupikina, Bell Labs Paris, France

More Lecturers TBA

Lecturers: https://acdl2025.icas.events/lecturers/

Lectures: https://acdl2025.icas.events/lectures/

Schedule:
https://acdl2025.icas.events/program/
https://acdl2025.icas.events/wp-content/uploads/sites/30/2024/12/ACDL-2025-Schedule.pdf

Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial General Intelligence
Autonomous Systems
Big Data
Cognitive Computing
Computational Cognitive Science
Constraint-Based Approaches to Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Explainable Artificial Intelligence
Human-level AI
Foundation Models
Generative Adversarial Networks
Generative Artificial Intelligence
Large Language Models
Large Vision Models
Natural Language Processing
Probabilistic Generative Models
Reinforcement Learning
Robotics
Self-Driving Vehicles
Transformers
Theory of Deep Learning

Call for Talks: https://acdl2025.icas.events/call-for-posters-talks/

ACDL Past Lecturers: https://acdl2025.icas.events/past-lecturers/

Venue: https://acdl2025.icas.events/venue/

Activities: https://acdl2025.icas.events/activities/

ACDL Past Edition: https://acdl2025.icas.events/past-editions/