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Core CArLA team

Project leadership and research

Portrait of Prof. Francesca Toni

Prof. Francesca Toni

Principal Investigator and strategic lead

Argumentation, interactive explainability, contestability and project leadership.

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Portrait of Dr. Fabrizio Russo

Dr. Fabrizio Russo

Technical lead

Causal discovery, statistical learning, explainable AI, contestability and software engineering.

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Portrait of Dr. Anna Rapberger

Dr. Anna Rapberger

Argumentation and explainability

Computational argumentation theory, scalability and explainable AI.

Acknowledgements

Student contributors and supervised research

These projects contributed ideas, experiments and implementations related to the wider CArLA research programme. Acknowledgement here does not imply that every student was formally funded by the grant.

Dhruv Himatsingka

MEng 2026

Bridging Gradual Semantics and Graph Neural Networks for Argumentative Causal Discovery.

Zihao Li

MSc 2025

Leveraging Large Language Models for Causal Discovery.

Yeva Hunanyan

MSc 2025

Exploring Semantics for Argumentative Causal Discovery.

Preesha Gehlot

MEng 2025

Graph Neural Networks for Approximate Argumentative Reasoning.

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