CV

Education

2016-2019 – PhD in Human-Computer Interaction - CNRS-ISIR, Sorbonne University, Paris, France
2013-2015 – International Master in Cognitive Science – Language and Multimodal Interaction Track
2013-2015 110/110 with Honours - University of Trento, Italy
2010-2013 – Bachelor in Cognitive Psychology – 110/110 - University of Trento, Italy

Dec. 2021 - to date - Associate Professor - LINEACT CESI, Nanterre
Jan. - Nov. 2021 - Postdoctoral Researcher - LS2N, IMT Atlantique and LTCI, Télécom Paris
Nov. - Dec. 2020 - Consultant in Data Analysis - CATech, LAPSCO-CNRS, Clermont Auvergne University
Sept. 2019 - October 2020 - Postdoctoral Researcher - LTCI, Télécom Paris
Febr. 2016 - July 2019 – PhD Student – CNRS-ISIR, Sorbonne University
Sept. 2014 - Febr. 2015 – Research Intern – LTCI, Télécom Paris-Tech
March 2014 - Aug. 2014 – Research Intern – University of Trento, Italy

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2022 - do date
- Associate Professor in Human-Computer Interaction and Innovation - CESI, Nanterre
- Lecturer in Multimodal Dialogue, Télécom Paris
2021
- Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction - American University of Paris
- Teaching Assistant in Gestual and Mobile Interaction - Télécom Paris and Paris-Saclay University
- Teaching Assistant in Human-Computer Interaction - IUT of Orsay
2017 - 2021
- Lecturer in Statistical Programming with R - IUT of Paris Cité (ex Paris Descartes)

Conference Organisation

2024
- Organiser of the “2nd ACE workshop: how Artificial Character Embodiment impacts user’s affect in multi-modal interactions” @IVA2024
- Senior PC member @ACII2024
- Program chair @WACAI2024
- Workshop chair @IVA2024
- Senior PC member @IHM2024
- Doctoral Consortium chair @IHM2024
- Publicity chair @AVI2024
2023
- Organiser of the “1st ACE workshop: how Artificial Character Embodiment impacts user’s behavior in multi-modal interactions” @ICMI2023
- Webchair @ICMI2023
- Program chair and organiser of one-day workshop ACAI @PFIA2023
- Doctoral Consortium Chair @IVA2023
- Session chair @HUCAPP2023
2022
- Member of the Advisory Committee for the Doctoral Consortium @IVA2022
- Program chair and organiser of one-day workshop ACAI
- Session chair @AAMAS2022
2021
- Organiser of the “International Workshop on Corpora and Tools for Social skills annotation (CATS2021)” @ICMI2021
- Posters and Demos chair @WACAI2021
2019
- Webchair and student volunteer @CASA2019 and @IVA2019

Editorial Activities

Topic Editor of Special Issue “Virtual Agents in Virtual Reality: Design and Implications for VR Users”, Frontiers in Virtual Reality
Topic Editor of Special Issue “Corpora and Tools for Social skills annotation”, Frontiers in Computer Science, Human-Media Interaction

Reviewer

International Conferences: MOCO 2018; ISMAR 2022; IVA 2022; ICMI 2018,2020,2021,2022,2023; AAMAS 2021,2022,2023,2024; IUI 2021,2022,2023; CHI 2021,2023,2024; ACII 2021,2022,2023; UMAP 2021,2022,2023,2024
National Conferences and Workshops: WACAI 2018,2020,2021; IHM 2024
International Workshops: SAMIH @ICMI2021; CIRCE @RO-MAN2020
International Journals: THMS; IJHCS; IJHCI; TiiS; JMUI; Frontiers in Psychology; Frontiers in Computer Science; Transactions on Affective Computing; International Journal of Social Robotics; Applied Artificial Intelligence
National Funding Agencies: external reviewer and member of the evaluation committee (section 33 - Interaction and Robotics) for the French research national agency (ANR); external reviewer for Institut Carnot Cognition; external reviewer for Israel Science Foundation (ISF)

Member of PhD committees

November 2023 - External member of the 2nd-year thesis committee of Veronica Beatini - Univeristy of Salerno and Hôpital Pitié Salpetrière, Paris
October 2022 - External member of the 2nd-year thesis committee of Mégane Sartore - CESI LINEACT and SNCF
July 2022 - Reviewer and member of the thesis committee of Maria Elena Lechuga Redondo - University of Genova

Animation of research community

Since 2021 - Animation and management of weekly meetings of GT ACAI
Since 2021 - Member of the board of directors of RéCIF (Réseau des Chercheurs Italiens en France)
October 2022 - Organisation of the “Fête de la Science” @CESI Nanterre
May 2022 - Organisation of the invited seminar of prof. Robby Ratan
2020 - Animation of regular meetings of Giovanna Varni’s research team
Since 2019 - Event manager for Pint of Science Paris IDF

AAP 2023 of PEPR VDBI (project BASE, submitted)
PhD program 2023 PEPR eNSEMBLE (project VINCI, full PhD funding - not starting due to health problems of the candidate)
Exploratory projects 2020 of Institut Carnot Cognition (project ACCENT, 25k€ funding)
Call for M2 internships DATAIA 2020 (project SLAM, 3k€ funding)

Oustanding Reviewer Award (Top 10%) @ICMI2021
Winner of the Récif 2020 Competition “Horizon 2020: Research and projects for the challenges of the next decade”
Best Paper Nominee @ICMI2020
Best Thesis Award of EDITE Doctoral School 2019 - Sorbonne University
3rd prize for the best vulgarization poster of the context “The need for innovation” - Italian Embassy in Paris
Best oral presentation @WACAI2018
1st jury prize at Three Minute Thesis competition (MT180)- Sorbonne University
Best Paper Award @IVA2015