PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Emiliano Lorini

Emiliano Lorini is a CNRS senior research director at IRIT, where he develops logical models of agents’ beliefs and cognitive attitudes. He completed a doctorate in cognitive sciences at the University of Siena in 2007 and joined CNRS in 2009 after postdoctoral work in Toulouse. His formalizations of desire, intention, and emotions earned him the 2014 CNRS bronze medal; later papers developed belief-base semantics and logics for changing cognitive attitudes. At PFIA in 2025, he co-led IRIT’s LILaC team and called for logical languages and reasoning and planning algorithms for conversational agents. He became a EurAI Fellow in 2026 for contributions to the logical and philosophical foundations of agency in AI.

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Timeline

  1. 2007–2009

    A doctorate and CNRS appointment

    He earns a doctorate in cognitive sciences from the University of Siena in 2007. After postdoctoral work in Toulouse, he joins CNRS in 2009.

  2. 2014

    A CNRS bronze medal

    In 2014, he receives the CNRS bronze medal for formalizing desire, intention, and emotions.

  3. 2018

    Belief bases in epistemic logic

    In 2018, he introduces a logic of explicit and implicit beliefs built on multi-agent belief bases.

  4. 2021

    A logic for cognitive change

    In 2021, he adds dynamic operators for belief and desire change to his logic and applies its choice extension to single-stage games with incomplete information.

  5. 2025

    Co-leading IRIT’s LILaC team

    In 2025, he co-leads the LILaC (Logic, Interaction, Language & Computation) team at IRIT, Université Toulouse III–Paul Sabatier.

  6. 2025

    Reasoning for conversational agents

    At PFIA in 2025, he calls for logical languages and reasoning and planning algorithms to give conversational agents capacities for intentional communication and theory of mind.

  7. 2026

    A EurAI Fellowship

    In 2026, he is elected a EurAI Fellow for his contributions to the logical and philosophical foundations of agency in AI.

  8. As of October 2026

    CNRS senior research director

    As of October 2026, he is a senior research director at CNRS’s IRIT Laboratory of Toulouse.

  1. Google had the most people shaping AI every year from 2014 to 2025Our estimates of which organizations employed the most people shaping AI from 1961 to 2025, with a year-by-year chart.
  2. The United States employs an estimated 53% of people in our data with a known employment countryOur estimates of where AI careers are concentrated now and how countries’ shares of dated positions changed over time.
  3. 46% of living people in our data with known birth and employment countries work outside their birth countryOur estimate of cross-border careers in AI, from country of birth and the country of each current organization.
  4. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionOur estimates of where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led, from education records in cited biographies.

Sources and credits

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  1. PFIA 2025 - Invités PFIA pfia2025.u-bourgogne.fr. Checked 19 October 2026.
  2. Rethinking Epistemic Logic with Belief Bases arxiv.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  3. A Qualitative Theory of Cognitive Attitudes and their Change arxiv.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  4. EurAI Fellows 2026 eurai.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  5. Emiliano Lorini – Homepage irit.fr. Checked 19 October 2026.