Sandro Pezzelle
About me
Assistant Professor in Responsible AI at ILLC, Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam. Affiliated with the Dialogue Modelling Group. Working on cognitively-inspired, multimodal models of language understanding and generation. As such, my research combines Natural Language Processing, AI and Cognitive Science. My research has been published in ACL, EACL, EMNLP, NAACL, TACL, and Cognition.
Before, I was a Postdoc within the DREAM (Distributed dynamic REpresentations for diAlogue Management) ERC project led by Raquel Fernández.
In 2018, I obtained a PhD in Cognitive and Brain Sciences, track Language, Interaction and Computation, at CIMeC, University of Trento, under the supervision of Raffaella Bernardi (see QUANTIT-CLIC for some work done during the PhD). I was intern at SAP AI Research.
News
- September 2022: Thrilled to welcome Michael Hanna as a new PhD student to my group! Look forward to working together!
- August 2022: I'll be teaching the Higher Cognitive Functions course at the Master's Brain and Cognitive Science in September!
- July 2022: I visited Marco Marelli's lab at Milano-Bicocca. Thanks, Marco and colleagues, for the nice welcome!
- April 2022: I spent two weeks at CIMeC, University of Trento, visiting Raffaella Bernardi and her lab!
- March 2022: We'll present our paper Word Representation Learning in Multimodal Pre-Trained Transformers: An Intrinsic Evaluation at ACL 2022!
- March 2022: Our paper Less Descriptive yet Discriminative: Quantifying the Properties of Multimodal Referring Utterances via CLIP has been accepted at the CMCL workshop co-located with ACL 2022!
- March 2022: I'm hiring! Check out the vacancy for my PhD Position in Computational Linguistics / NLP at ILLC!
- December 2021: Our paper Word Representation Learning in Multimodal Pre-Trained Transformers: An Intrinsic Evaluation has been published in TACL!
- October 2021: Two papers within the RPA Human(e) AI project Exploring Adaptation of Conversational Systems to Different Age Groups have been accepted for publication at CONVERSATIONS and CLIC-it!
- September 2021: I've been appointed Assistant Professor in Responsible AI (tenure track) at the University of Amsterdam. Look forward to starting this new journey!
- August 2021: I'll be teaching the NLP1 course together with Wilker Aziz at the MSc AI in November!