About me
I'm Assistant Professor in the Responsible AI group of the Department of Information and Computing Sciences of Utrecht University.
My research focuses on methodologies and solutions for Artificial Intelligence systems to cooperate synergistically and proactively with humans. I focus on automated and data-driven mechanisms that explicitly account for human intentionality and expertise to ensure that AI behaviors are aligned with human norms and values. My contributions have applicability in domains such as healthcare, social computing, and transportation.
I received my Master's degree in July 2016 from the Department of Computer Science of the University of Turin. In my thesis in Artificial Intelligence, I discuss the application of automated planning to problems involving multi-agent teams acting in the real world.
In 2021, I obtained a Ph.D. from Utrecht University, with a thesis in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Requirements Engineering, on data-driven supervision of autonomous systems.
Between 2021 and 2022, I was postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Control and Operations of Delft University of Technology, where I conducted research on social and socially assistive robotics.
Between 2023 and 2024, I was postdoctoral researcher in the Taskforce of the Hybrid Intelligence Centre, of which I am currently member, where we study how to amplify both human and machine intelligence by combining their complementary strengths.
Over the years, I was involved in a number of research projects on topics ranging from aerospace
to optimization of health services and from social and epidemic simulation to machine learning and natural language processing. I'm a former member of the Requirements Engineering Lab at Utrecht University.
In my spare time, I enjoy art, traveling () and photographing (), and solving puzzles.