I’m a Research Scientist at Pal Robotics awarded with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie cofund fellowship in the H2020 project PRO-CARED (no.801342) which aims at designing social robots with proactive personalised behaviour during long-lasting interactions. I was an Early Stage Researcher in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network (ITN) project called SOCRATES, which focused on Quality of Interaction in Eldercare. Prior to coming to IRII, I worked at Cogisen as AI lead. I was a visiting student at the University of Naples (2021) and University of Hamburg (2018-19).
My main research interests are in the areas of human-robot interaction (HRI) and human-centered design technologies. My work focuses on designing, developing, and evaluating interactive social systems that can be personalised and that can adapt to their users over short-term and long-term interactions, based on individual’s unique needs and goals. I’ve organised workshops on topics realated to trust, ai, ethics and personalisation at HRI, RO-MAN and ICSR conferecences. I’ve served as guest editor of several special issues of journals such as International Journal of Social Robotics, Paladyn Journal of Behaviour and Interaction Studies and as associate editor at IROS 2021-22.
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Interests
- Human-Centered Robotics
- Socially Assistive Robotics
- Short- and Long-term Personalisation
- Human-Robot Interaction
- Reinforcement Learning
- Automated Planning
- Experimental Design
- Proactive Behaviour
- Mental Models
Education
PhD in Control, Robotics and Vision, Ongoing, 2017
Institut de Robotica i Informatica Industrial, CSIC-UPC
MEng in Artificial Intelligence, 2009
Sapienza, University of Rome
BSc in Computer Engineering, 2006
Sapienza, University of Rome
