People

Gloria Beraldo –  National Research Council, CNR, Rome, Italy – Gloria Beraldo received the M.Sc. degree cum laude in computer science engineering and the Ph.D. in information engineering with Doctor Europaeus mention from the University of Padova in 2017 and 2021, respectively. She was a visiting researcher at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in 2019 and at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya under the TERRINet (European Robotics Research Infrastructures) initiative in 2022. She is currently a fixed-term researcher at the National Research Council of Italy. She has been involved in different projects that aim at enhancing robots with AI for providing personalized assistance via human-mediated interactions. She is also a contract professor at the University of Padova for the courses of “Artificial Intelligence” and “Digital Systems” at the Department of Information Engineering. Her research is focused on designing novel semi-autonomous human-robot interactions with particular attention to the case of brain-machine interface-driven robotics devices. She is investigating how to decode high-level user intention and fuse it with the perception of the robot and goal-oriented task planning to achieve advanced forms of human-robot interaction. Her research interests include human-robot interaction, shared control and shared autonomy, telepresence robots, neurorobotics, socially assistive robotics, and intelligent systems. She regularly serves as a reviewer for several top-level conferences and journals on robotics, artificial intelligence and human-robot interaction. She has been involved in the program committees of different workshops and conferences as well as guest editor of different international journals. She has received many awards, including the AIxIA Pietro Torasso for her contribution to the field of Artificial Intelligence in the PhD thesis, IEEE Brain BMI Workshop Best Student Paper Award 2020 (Third Place) at SMC2020 Conference, the BEST LBR NOMINEE at HRI 2023, nominee of the top ten most promising researcher in robotics and artificial intelligence in Italy by Fondazione Mondo Digitale in 2024.

Alberto Castellini – Universita’ di Verona, Italy – Alberto Castellini is assistant professor at the University of Verona, computer science department. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Verona and had research and teaching experiences at both University of Verona and Potsdam University/Max Planck Institute in Potsdam, Germany. His research interests are related to artificial intelligence, statistical learning, predictive modeling of complex systems and computational data analysis.

Alberto Finzi – University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy – Alberto Finzi is Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy. He received the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from the Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy. He was Fulbright Visiting Scholar at NASA Ames Research Center, postdoctoral research activity was also carried out at Sapienza University of Rome and TU Wien. He has been recently involved in several research projects sponsored by the European Community, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the European Space Agency, the Italian Space Agency, FWF (Austrian Science Fund), the Italian Ministry for University and Research, and private industries. His current research interests include cognitive robotics, human–robot interaction, social robotics, executive and cognitive control, autonomous and adaptive systems, planning and scheduling systems, multiagent systems, and formal methods for autonomous systems.

Fabio Patrizi – Sapienza University, Rome, Italy – Fabio Patrizi is an Associate Professor at DIAG – Sapienza University of Rome. His research activity concerns theoretical, methodological, and practical aspects in different areas of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, such as Formal Methods, Knowledge Representation, Reasoning about Action, non-standard forms of Planning, Service-oriented Computing, Business Processes. Fabio Patrizi regularly publishes the results of his research in top-level international journals and conferences. He has co-authored over 60 scientific papers, published in international top-level journals or proceedings of international conferences, and has been invited to present the results of his research at various institutions. He is the (co-)recipient of a Best-Paper Award and a Test-of-Time Award. He is regularly invited as PC or SPC member of several top-level conferences in the areas of his interest, and as a reviewer or guest editor for various international journals. He is an editorial board member of AIJ.