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.
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
- April 2022: I'm on a research visit at CIMeC, University of Trento until April 14!
- 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!
- June 2021: The paper Linguistic issues behind Visual Question Answering by me and Raffaella Bernardi has been published open access in Language and Linguistic Compass!
- June 2021: The paper Probing Cross-Modal Representations in Multi-Step Relational Reasoning has been accepted at the RepL4NLP workshop co-located with ACL 2021!
- March 2021: I'll be teaching the Higher Cognitive Functions course at the Master's Brain and Cognitive Science in September!
- March 2021: The paper EaSe: A Diagnostic Tool for VQA based on Answer Diversity in collaboration with TU Kaiserslautern, DFKI and SAP AI has been accepted at NAACL-HLT 2021!