About Me
I'm a PhD candidate at the AIR Lab (UniTo) researching in the field of Human-Robot Interaction, with a focus on empathic and socially intelligent robots. My work spans from cognitive architectures for affective computing to the study of interactions in HRI.
Experience & Education
PhD Candidate in Computer Science
Nov 2022 – presentUniversità degli Studi di Torino (UniTo) · Turin, Italy
Doctoral research at the AIR Lab (Advanced Interactions & Robotics Lab) focused on Human-Robot Interaction, with particular emphasis on empathic and socially intelligent robots.
- Empathic cognitive architectures for social robots
- Research stays at University of Manchester (UK) and IIT Genoa (Italy)
Research Visiting Scholar
Oct – Nov 2024University of Manchester · Manchester, UK
Second research visit to the University of Manchester, continuing collaborative work on social robotics and HRI.
- Collaborative research on social robotics and HRI
Research Visiting Scholar
Jan – Jun 2024University of Manchester · Manchester, UK
Six-month research visit to the University of Manchester, collaborating on projects related to cognitive architectures for Human-Robot Interaction and social robot behavior design.
- Collaborative research on social robotics and HRI
Research Internship
Oct – Dec 2023Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) · Genoa, Italy
Research internship at IIT Genoa working on cognitive architectures and Emotion Recognition through Body Language for humanoid robots, including the iCub platform.
- iCub robot programming with YARP
- Emotion recognition using Body Language
MSc in Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence
2020 – 2022Università degli Studi di Torino (UniTo) · Turin, Italy
Master's degree in Computer Science with a thesis on a CNN-based approach for Emotion Recognition in Context
BSc in Computer Science
2017 – 2020Università degli Studi di Torino (UniTo) · Turin, Italy
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science at the University of Turin.
Technical Skills
Programming languages, frameworks, tools, and platforms I work with.
Programming
- Python
- Java
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- PHP
- HTML
- CSS
- SQL
- Bash
- C#
- Kotlin
- React
- Node.js
- Flask
- Django
AI & Machine Learning
- PyTorch
- TensorFlow
- Scikit-learn
- LLM APIs
- NLU
Robotics
- ROS
- ROS2
- YARP
- Reachy Mini
- NAO
- Pepper
- NAOqi
Computer Vision
- OpenCV
- MediaPipe
- YOLO
- Emotion Recognition
- Computer Vision
Tools & Platforms
- Docker
- Git
- Linux
- Vercel
- Jupyter
- LaTeX
- Ubuntu
- Postman
- GitLab
- GitHub
Languages
- Italian (native)
- English (B2)