German I. Parisi

Program Director, Product Management, IBM watsonx

Program Director, Artificial Intelligence, IBM Data and AI

Co-founder and former Board Member, ContinualAI

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I’m passionate about developing innovative and impactful systems that are interactive by design and delightful by experience.

I’m currently Program Director of Artificial Intelligence at IBM Data and AI and Product Manager for watsonx. I work on conversational technologies where AI/ML-powered algorithms learn from millions of real-world human-agent interaction examples.

I believe in the transformational power of quantum computing and its incredible potential to disrupt and advance artificial intelligence. In particular, what does post-quantum (continual) machine learning look like?

Some background:

  • On McD Tech Labs' acquisition and McD's strategic partnership with IBM: 2020/10 CNBC

Selected Publications

Churamani, Dimlioglu, Parisi, Gunes. (2023)

Continual Facial Expression Recognition: A Benchmark.arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.06448
Lomonaco et al. (2021)Avalanche: an end-to-end library for continual learning.IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.
Parisi, G.I., Kemker, R., Part, J.L., Kanan, C., Wermter, S. (2019)Continual Lifelong Learning with Neural Networks: A Review. - Best Article AwardNeural Networks 133:54-71. [arXiv:1802.07569]
Barros, P., Parisi, G.I., Wermter, S. (2019) A Personalized Affective Memory Model for Improving Emotion Recognition.ICML'19, Long Beach, CA.
Parisi, G.I., Tani, J., Weber, C., Wermter, S. (2018)Lifelong Learning of Spatiotemporal Representations with Dual-Memory Recurrent Self-Organization.Frontiers in Neurorobotics 12:78 [arXiv:1805.10966]
Parisi, G.I., Barros, P., Fu, D., Magg., S. Wu, H., Liu, X., Wermter, S. (2018)A Neurorobotic Experiment for Crossmodal Conflict Resolution in Complex Environments.IEEE/RSJ IROS'18, Madrid, Spain [arXiv:1802.10408]

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Organized Events & Special Issues


March 2022 Lifelong Learning and Personalization in Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction - Second Edition@ ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) - Virtual
March 2021 Lifelong Learning and Personalization in Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction@ ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) - Virtual
June 2020 [CFP] Special Issue: Lifelong Learning and Long-Term Human-Robot InteractionFrontiers in Robotics and AI, Psychology
2020-09-04 Workshop on Lifelong Learning for Long-term Human-Robot Interaction@ RO-MAN 2020 in Naples, Italy
2020-06-14  Workshop on Continual Learning in Computer Vision@ CVPR 2020, Seattle, WA
2019 - [CFP] Research Topic: "Closing the Loop: From Human Behavior to Multisensory Robots"Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Psychology, and Neuroscience
2018-10-05 - Workshop on Crossmodal Learning for Intelligent Robotics @ IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)'18, Madrid, Spain
2018-09-08 - Workshop on Intelligent Assistive Systems @ IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI-IJCNN) '18, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2018 - [CFP] Special Issue on Crossmodal Learning Cognitive Systems Research journal (Elsevier)
2017-09-18 - Workshop on Computational Models for Crossmodal Learning @ Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EPIROB) '17, Lisbon, Portugal

Invited Seminars


2020-01-31 "Towards Lifelong Conversational AI", RE-WORK Applied AI Summit 2020, San Francisco, CA, USA
2019-04-16 "Lifelong Continual Learning with Neural Networks", tutorial at the INNS Big Data and Deep Learning 2019, Sestri Levante, Genoa, Italy
2018-09-20 "Lifelong Continual Learning with Neural Networks", RE-WORK Deep Learning Summit, London, UK
2018-06-23 "Lifelong Learning on Humanoid Robots", Dept. of Computer Science, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
2018-03-16 "Continual Learning of Representations with Deep Neural Network Self-Organization", Stanford AI Lab (SAIL), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
2017-07-11  "Deep Neural Network Self-Organization for Lifelong (Multimodal) Learning", Kreiman's Lab, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
2015-11-20 "A neurocognitive assistive robot: Human action learning with neural network self-organization", Asada Laboratory, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
2015-11-10 "Emergence of multimodal cognitive representations from neural network self-organization", Cognitive Neuro-Robotics Lab, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea.
2014-12-18 "Neurocognitive assistive robotics", Dept. of Theoretical Computer Science and Mathematical Logic, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
2014-12-11 "Neural integration of pose-motion features for human action recognition", Slipguru, Universita' di Genova, Genoa, Italy.

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