CV

Education:

(2008) PhD in Computer Science at the University of Paris 8 (*)

(2003) Degree in Computer Science at the University of Rome "La Sapienza"

(* I also obtained a PhD in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Rome "La Sapienza, in "co-tutelle" with Univ. of Paris 8)

Academic experience:

2008 – today: postdoctoral researcher at the INFOMUS lab, University of Genova, Italy

2004 – 2008: PhD in Computer Science at the University of Paris 8 supervised by Prof. Catherine Pelachaud. PhD in Cognitive Psychology at University of Rome "La Sapienza" supervised by Prof. Isabella Poggi

2003: research work on ECAs at University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy

Work experience:

1998-99: programmer at MEC Informatica s.r.l., Rome, Italy

1997: programmer at Inmatica S.p.a., Rome, Italy

1995: programmer at Tecno Multimediale, Rome, Italy

Academic activities:

Teaching:

Multimodal Systems for Human-Computer Interaction (2012) - Univ. of Genova: 25 hrs

XML Language (2011) - Scuola Telecomunicazione FF.AA., Chiavari: 59 hrs

Multimedia systems and interfaces (2010-2011) - Univ. of Genova: 15 hrs

Multimodal Systems for Human-Computer Interaction (2010-2011) - Univ. of Genova: 25 hrs

C++ Language (2010) - Scuola Telecomunicazione FF.AA., Chiavari: 48 hrs

C++ Language (2009) - Scuola Telecomunicazione FF.AA., Chiavari: 32 hrs

C Language (January to April  2007) - Univ. of Paris 8: 36 hrs

Guest Editor:

Special Issue of the Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces (JMUI), Selected contributions from "eNTERFACE’09", Springer, 2010

Proceedings of the 5th International Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces (eNTERFACE/09), ISBN 978-88-901344-7-0, Genova, Italy, 2010

Speaker at conferences, seminars:

AVI 2012:
"Embodied cooperation using mobile devices: presenting and evaluating the Sync4All application"

ACII 2011:
"Evaluating the communication of emotion via expressive gesture copying behaviour in an embodied humanoid agent"

PRAIxHBA 2009:
"Modeling expressive individual and collective behavior"

AAMAS 2008:
"Distinctiveness in multimodal behaviors"

IVA 2007:
"Dynamic behavior qualifiers for conversational agents"

Gesture Workshop 2007:
"Implementing distinctive behavior for conversational agents"
"Analysis of emotional gestures from videos for the generation of expressive behaviour in an ECA"

AISB'07 - Artificial and Ambient Intelligence:
"An expressive ECA showing complex emotions"

MIRAGE 2007 Conference, INRIA, Versailles:
"Copying Behaviour of Expressive Motion"

Humaine WP3 Workshop on Emotional Gestures, Genève, January 8th to January 10th 2007:
"Representation of gestures for an expressive ECA"
"Real-time analysis and synthesis of emotional gestures from video"

Seminar at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", April 2007:
"Implementing distinctive behavior for conversational agents"

Humaine Third Summer School, Casa Paganini, Genova, 22 September-28 September 2006:
"Annotation of multimodal behavior"

Seminar at NII, Tokyo, February 2006:
"Using the Greta agent"

Gesture Workshop 2005:
"From acoustic cues to expressive ECAs"
"Modelling Expressive Gesture Synthesis for ECAs"

AISB 2004:
"Speaking with Emotions"

11ème Journée des utilisateurs Vicon, 2004

Humaine Workshop in Santorini:
"Animation improvements and face creation tool for ECAs"

Reviewer:

• IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 2012
  
• ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  
• ICMI 2012, 14th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (link)
  
• ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
• Intetain 2011 (link)
• AFFINE 2010, 3rd International Workshop On Affective Interaction in Natural Environments (link)
  
• IADIS Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2010 (link)
  
• LREC Workshop on Multimodal Corpora 2010 (link)
  
• Mobile Network Applications (ISSN: 1383-469X, 1572-8153) (link)
  
• International Computer Music Conference 2009 (link)
• Special issue "Real-Time Affect Analysis and Interpretation: Closing the Affective Loop in Virtual Agents and Robots" of the journal Journal of Multimodal User Interfaces (link)
• 22nd ACM UIST Symposium (link)
• LREC Workshop on Multimodal Corpora 2008 (link)
• IVA 2007 (link)
• Advances in Human-Computer Interaction (link)
• International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents 2005 (link)
• SIGGRAPH 2004 (link)
• CASA 2004 (link)