Alessandro Vinciarelli

I have been involved in a very interesting and engaging symposium at the European Conference on Personality Psychology, held in Edinburgh between July 20th and 24th: https://www.ecp22edinburgh.org The symposium has been organised by John Rauthmann, president of the European Association on Personality, and its goal was to consider personality psychology…

If an image is worth a 1000 words, a video is probably worth much more. Many thanks to the College of Science and Engineering of the University of Glasgow for producing a very nice video of the Social Robotics Hackathon we organised a few months ago: It was a nice…

A new journal paper about depression detection: S.Altalhi, T.Guha and A.Vinciarelli, “Depression markers in speech: An approach based on tract variables dynamics”, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 160, No. 1, pp. 277-288, 2026. https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/article/160/1/277/3397466/Depression-markers-in-speech-An-approach-based-on This study identifies new depression biomarkers based on the dynamical properties of tract…

I co-chaired with great pleasure the 4th International Digital Mental Health and Wellbeing Conference in Glasgow: International Digital Mental Health and Wellbeing Conference By embracing diverse disciplines, the conference aims to foster collaboration that drives holistic and culturally adaptable digital mental health solutions. This approach highlights the importance of designing…

In the week between May 25th and May 29th of 2026, I attended the Bertinoro International Spring School (BISS 2026). It is a yearly event that gathers PhD students in Computer Science from the whole European Union and involves three courses of 12 hours each. I have been given the…

I had a chance to give a talk to introduce Social AI at the Institute for Transdisciplinary AI: https://www.umu.se/en/events/fraiday-introduction-to-social-ai_11859216/ The abstract of the talk is as follows: “The goal of this talk is to introduce Social AI, the domain aimed at making sense of human behaviour in terms of social…

It is a great pleasure to announce that Fuxiang Tao, PhD student under my supervision, graduated with a thesis entitled “Speech-based Automatic Depression Detection via Biomarkers Identification and Artificial Intelligence Approaches”. Fuxiang published three papers during his PhD, all in the upper quartile of the CORE conference ranking: Special thanks…

I had the great pleasure and honour to give a talk at the AI Doctoral Academy: Here is the abstract of the presentation: “According to the Gartner Group, one of the most important strategic consulting companies, detection and monitoring of mental health issues are some of the most promising application…

My friend and colleague Abeer Buker and I published a new paper on the inference of personality traits from language and typing behaviour in dyadic text-based chats. The title of the work is “Reading Between the Lines: Automatic Inference of Self-Assessed Personality Traits from Dyadic Social Chats” and it will…

A new survey paper has been accepted by ACM Computing Surveys (“Co-Located Human-Human Interaction Analysis using Nonverbal Cues: A Survey”) and it is available at the following page: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3626516 Most of the credits go to the exceptional Cigdem Beyan, a young an very talented colleague who has been the real…