Passionate about explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), human-robot interaction (HRI), and human cognition and biases. I am the only computer scientist who dreams of becoming a cognitive scientist.
Currently, I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) and a research fellow at the University of Naples Parthenope. I obtained my Ph.D. at the University of Genoa (DIBRIS) and the Italian Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor's and MSc degrees in Computer Science at the University of Naples Federico II.
During my PhD, I investigated the influence of the explainability of social robots on human-robot collaboration and tutoring. I collaborated with Prof. Katharina Rolhfing from Paderborn University and the TRR 318 "Constructing Explainability" during my PhD period abroad, working on partner-aware explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) in tutoring with social agents. Previously, worked on robots' behavioral modeling and human-robot shared perception. I gave several invited talks at top institutions, including the University of Bielefeld (CITEC) and the International Symposium "Humans at the Centre of HRI" by Naver Labs Europe and Inria. For my MSc thesis, a research work conducted in conjunction with the Italian Institute of Technology, I received the Best MSc Thesis Award from Istituto di Biorobotica - Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Pisa.
