Vicenç Torra is Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Dept. of Computing Science at Umeå University. He has a PhD in Computer Science / AI from Polytechnical University of Catalonia in 1994. He has held positions at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Catalonia, Spain), Artificial Intelligence Research Institute - Spanish Council for Scientific Research (IIIA-CSIC), Skövde University (2014-2020, Professorship, Sweden), and Maynooth University (2018-2020, Professorship, Ireland). Additionally, he has undertaken visiting positions at Tsukuba University in Japan, and maintains a longstanding and fruitful collaboration with Japanese researchers. Torra's areas of expertise center on artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on data privacy and approximate reasoning (reasoning under uncertainty, fuzzy sets and systems). He is IEEE and EurAI fellow, and ISI elected member. He has written several books including "Fundamentals of artificial intelligence" (in Catalan, Open University Press, 2007), "Modeling Decisions" (with Y. Narukawa, Springer, 2007), "Scala: from a functional programming perspective" (Springer, 2016), "Guide to data privacy" (Springer, 2022).

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Artificial intelligence and intelligent systems.- 3. Decision-support systems.- 4. Machine learning at work. Data-science.- 5. Security and privacy.- 6. Applications in social sciences.- 7. Ethics and AI.