Biography

“The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.” Ada Lovelace


 

Alessandra is Assistant Professor working as part of Italian PON R&I 2014-2020 – REACT-EU (CUP E65F21002920003). She was previously a postdoctoral researcher on the BRILLO project (PON I&C 2014-2020 MISE) at the University of Naples “Federico II”. Her PhD thesis was part of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research ETN SECURE project (https://secure-robots.eu/) at the University of Hertfordshire (UK). Alessandra is co-PI of the AFOSR ERROR project, Project Manager of Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research ETN PERSEO, and involved in the scientific coordination of several national and international projects. She has been Publicity chair at IEEE RO-MAN 2022 and 2023, Virtual Organizing Chair of IEEE RO-MAN 2021, Registration Chair and Social Media Responsible for IEEE RO-MAN 2020. Alessandra is currently Special Session Chair at IEEE RO-MAN 2024, and she is Exec member of the RoboCup Humanoid League since 2022. Alessandra has great experience in organising scientific events has main organiser and in collaboration with her peers, some examples are the workshops SCRITA at RO-MAN 2018-2023, workshop TRAITS at HRI 2021 and 2022, special sessions at RO-MAN 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, special issues at the Interaction Studies (IS), International Journal of Social Robotics (IJSR), and Paladyn Journal of Behavioral Robotics. Her research interests include Human–(Multi) Robot Interaction, social robotics, trust, XAI, multi-agent systems and user profiling.

Robocup 2016
Robocup 2016