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
- 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!