Dr Luca Longo is an Italian computer scientist specializing in artificial intelligence, deep learning, and argumentation theory with research in human performance modelling. Besides having obtained a Ph.D. at the University of Dublin, Trinity College (TCD), in Artificial Intelligence, he has completed a B.Sc. (Honours) and an M.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Insubria (Varese, Italy), a Postgraduate Diploma in Statistics and an M.Sc. in Health Informatics at TCD,  a Postgraduate Diploma in Learning and Teaching at the Technological University Dublin, and an M.Sc. in Applied e-Learning. He founded the World Conference on Explainable Artificial Intelligence, and besides performing research in the field, he conducts fundamental research in computational models of cognitive load. He is a public speaker disseminating technical knowledge to the broader public and contributing to the non-profit organization TED (conference) “ideas worth spreading”. Luca is the recipient of the 2023 “AI Person of the Year” award and also the 2016 and 2021 winner of the Teaching Hero Award in Ireland.