Academic Experience

Assistant Professor (current position)

2024 - Present
Utrecht University

Assistant Professor in the Responsible AI group of the Department of Information and Computing Sciences of Utrecht University.

Postdoctoral researcher

2023 - 2024
Utrecht University, Hybrid Intelligence Center

I was postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Information and Computing Sciences of Utrecht University in the context of the Hybrid Intelligence 10-year gravitation programme funded by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science through the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), and involving 7 Dutch universities and partners such as Erasmus MC and TNO. Within the Hybrid Intelligence programme I was (and currently am) part of a special Taskforce, where I investigate methodologies and metrics for designing and evaluating Hybrid Intelligence systems.

Postdoctoral researcher

2021 - 2023
Delft University of Technology

As a postdoc at TU Delft, I conducted independent research in the field of social and socially assistive robotics. I focused on the following two projects funded by NWO, the Dutch National Science Funding Agency.

  • Creative Social Robots with Evolutionary AI for Personalized Dementia Therapy
  • Human-like norm-aware cognitive robots for autonomous interactions with humans

Teaching and Academic Activities

Teaching

2024 - Present
Utrecht University

As an Assistant Professor, I was actively involved in the teaching program of Utrecht University, teaching students in bachelor's and master's courses on computer science and artificial intelligence. I was involved in the following courses.

Students Supervision and Mentoring

2018 - Present
Utrecht University

  • MSc: An LLM-based approach to identifying and extracting context-specific personal values from text - 2024
  • MSc: Personalized and Adaptive Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction with a Novel Fuzzy Logic Control and Reinforcement Learning-Based Paradigm - 2023
  • MSc: Balancing Norms and Goals in Normative Agents - 2020
  • BSc: The Effect of Norm Enforcement on Traffic Congestion via SUMO Simulation with Norm Aware Agents - 2018

Seminars and Talks

2021 - Present

  • Invited Speaker for the AI and Data Science division of the Department of Information and Computing Sciences of Utrecht University. Talk: Data-Driven Revision of Conditional Norms in Multi-Agent Systems - December 2023.
  • Guest Lecture for the Intelligent Agents course of the Department of Information and Computing Sciences of Utrecht University. Lecture: Social agent architectures - October 2023.
  • Invited speaker for the Graduating at C&S lunch lecture of the Department of Control and Operation of TU Delft. Talk: Mathematical Decision Making - March 2022.
  • Invited speaker for the Graduate Seminars of the Department of Computer Engineering of Boğaziçi University. Talk: Evolving Fuzzy Logic Systems for Personalized Creative Socially Assistive Robots - December 2021.

Teaching assistance

2017 - 2021
Utrecht University

The teaching assistance role involved a range of teaching-related responsibilities, including: teaching students in laboratory and discussion sessions, invigilating and grading tests and exams, creating exercises and tests. I was involved in the following courses, mainly concerned with computer science and artificial intelligence:

Involvement in the Scientific Community

Editorial Activities

2022 - Present

  • CEUR-WS, Associate Editor of the CEUR-WS Free Open-Access Publication Service of Proceedings for Computer Science Workshops

Organization of Scientific Events

2018 - Present

  • NLP4RE@REFSQ 2024, Co-chair of the 7th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering (NLP4RE'24), co-located with REFSQ 2024
  • RE 2023, Student Volunteers Co-chair of the 31st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'23)
  • NLP4RE@REFSQ 2022, Co-chair of the 5th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering (NLP4RE'22), co-located with REFSQ 2022
  • REFSQ 2018, Student Volunteers Chair for the 24th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality

Program Committee Membership

2020 - Present

  • HHAI 2024, 3rd International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence
  • IJCAI 2024, 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • ECAI 2024, 27th European Conference on Artifical Intelligence
  • RE4AI@REFSQ 2024, 5th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Artificial Intelligence
  • EMAS@AAMAS 2024, 12th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems
  • C-MAS@AAMAS 2024, 2nd International Workshop on Citizen-Centric Multiagent Systems
  • AAMAS 2024, 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
  • AIRE@RE 2024, 11th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Requirements Engineering
  • RE 2024, 32nd IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference
  • CAIN 2024, 3rd International Conference on AI Engineering – Software Engineering for AI
  • REFSQ 2024, 30th International Working Conference on Requirement Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality
  • ECAI 2023, 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • AIRE@RE 2023, 10th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Requirements Engineering
  • EMAS@AAMAS 2023, 11th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems
  • AAMAS 2023, 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
  • REFSQ 2023, 29th International Working Conference on Requirement Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality
  • NLP4RE@REFSQ 2023, 6th International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering
  • NWO ICT.OPEN2023, Track: Policy design and operationalization for data and AI governance
  • AMPM@JURIX 2022, 2nd Workshop on Agent-based Modelling and Policy-Making
  • EMAS@AAMAS 2022, 10th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems
  • AAMAS 2022, 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
  • RE4AI@REFSQ 2022, 3rd International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Artificial Intelligence
  • iMLSE@APSEC 2021, 3rd International Workshop on Machine Learning Systems Engineering
  • EMAS@AAMAS 2021, 9th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems
  • RE4AI@REFSQ 2021, 2nd International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Artificial Intelligence
  • iMLSE@APSEC 2020, 2nd International Workshop on Machine Learning Systems Engineering

Organization of Tutorials in Conferences

2023 - Present

  • RE 2024, Promotion of Open Science in Requirements Engineering: Leveraging the Open Research Knowledge Graph for FAIR Scientific Information. O. Karras, A. Ferrari, D. Fucci, D. Dell'Anna. 32nd IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 2024
  • RE 2023, Tutorial: Towards Facilitating Replication in NLP4RE. S. Abualhaija, F. B. Aydemir, D. Dell'Anna, A. Ferrari, X. Franch, D. Fucci. 31st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, 2023

Organization of Competitions in Conferences

2024 - Present

  • HHAI 2024, The 1st What-is-HI Competition (HI Comp 2024, HHAI): The Pearls and Perils of Hybrid (Human-AI) Intelligence System Design. D. Dell'Anna, B. Dudzik, D. Grossi, C. Jonker, P. Murukannaiah, P. Yolum. 3rd International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence, HHAI 2024
  • AAMAS 2024, The Hybrid Intelligence Competition (HI Comp 2024, AAMAS): The Pearls and Perils of Hybrid (Human-AI) Intelligence System Design. D. Dell'Anna, B. Dudzik, C. Jonker, P. Murukannaiah, P. Yolum. 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2024

Reviewer

2017 - Present

Reviewing for International Journals

Reviewing and sub-reviewing for International Conferences

  • RE 2023, 31st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference
  • C-MAS@AAMAS 2023, 1st International Workshop on Citizen-Centric Multiagent Systems
  • CAISE 2023, 35th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
  • REFSQ 2021, 27th International Working Conference on Requirement Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality
  • RCIS 2020, 14th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science
  • PRIMA 2020, 23rd International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems
  • EMAS@AAMAS 2019 7th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems
  • AAMAS 2018, 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
  • EUMAS 2017, 15th European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems

Student Volunteer

2017 - 2019

The student volunteer role involved a range of duties, including: technical assistance to speakers and attendees, monitoring session rooms, disseminating information at the registration, taking pictures, contributing to the overall smooth running of the conference functions and social events. I volunteered in the following international conferences:

  • RE 2019 27th IEEE Intl. Requirements Engineering Conference - Jeju Island, South Korea
  • RE 2018 26th IEEE Intl. Requirements Engineering Conference - Banff, Alberta, Canada
  • RE 2017 25th IEEE Intl. Requirements Engineering Conference - Lisbon, Portugal

Work History

Freelance web developer

2010 - 2016

Website development.
Some examples: teatrodaosta.it (2016), autoricambirossetto.it (2016), euroautomation.it (2015), pedrettigraniti.it (2014), rewis.it (2014), livioviano.it (2012), etc.

Lights, sound and video service, Animation video maker, IT consultancy

2010 - 2016
Compagnia Teatro d'Aosta

Teatro d'Aosta is a theater company dedicated for more than 40 years to theater for children and young people but also for adults. My work consisted in providing technical and decision support during both production and performing of theater shows. Among other things, I've actively contributed to the realization of the animated digital scenography of the Pippi Calzelunghe di Astrid Lindgren play.