Alessandro Vinciarelli

I had a chance to present the SOCIAL CDT to the students of The Data Lab involved in a Master Program in Data Science. It was a good opportunity to learn what PhD applicants worry about: The proposal: most students do not feel comfortable in writing a PhD proposal (not…

I had the great opportunity to participate in a roundtable on data science organised by Prof Bridgette Wessels (University of Glasgow) and Prof Lesley McCara (University of Edinburgh) in the framework of SHAPE (Social Sciences, Humanities and the Art for People and the Economy). The goal of the event was…

I had the great opportunity to give a keynote talk at the 2nd International Workshop on Bridging Social Sciences and AI for Understanding Child Behaviour: https://sites.google.com/view/wocbu/home The event was organised, among others, by Heysem Kaya at the University of Utrecht and it addressed the development of interactive technologies for children.…

It was my great pleasure to be one of the Doctoral Consortium Chairs at the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, in collaboration with Iolanda Leite: https://icmi.acm.org/2021/index.php?id=cfdc We received a large number of high quality submissions and we selected 8 articles covering all aspects of Multimodal Interaction, from the analysis…

It was a great pleasure and honour to be keynote speaker at the Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition: The talk revolved around Social Signal Processing, the domain I have been working on for the last 15 years. It was a pity not to be in condition to travel to Mexico…

I participated in a roundtable organised by Copy House on Customer Centric AI: The panel included people working in all types of role (CEOs, Business Development Managers, etc) so that the topic could be explored from all points of view. The main message is that AI is playing an increasingly…

I am very happy to participate in Book Week Scotland, the event organised by the Scottish Book Trust that involves readers and public libraries. I have been asked to prepare a short video about Artificial Intelligence that I entitled “AI: past, present and future”, where I have tried to explain…

The tutorial on Social AI organised in collaboration with Monika Harvey and Stacy Marsella has been a great success. Despite being held on a Saturday afternoon, the tutorial was attended by 50 persons that have participated with great questions and comments. The website of the tutorial is here: The three…

We have published another paper about depression for Cognitive Computation: N.Aloshban, A.Esposito and A.Vinciarelli, “What You Say Or How You Say It? Depression Detection Through Joint Modelling of Linguistic and Acoustic Aspects of Speech“, accepted for publication by Cognitive Computation, to appear 2020. The key-point of the paper is that…

I had the great opportunity to participate in an event organised by APARA (Asia Pacific Robotics Association). I joined an online panel and discussion about responsible AI and ethics: https://www.aibotics.tech/webinar Together with researchers (Prof David Bodoff from Haifa University) and entrepreneurs (Olivia Gambelin from Ethical AI and Chuan Hiang from…