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Alessandra Sciutti

Senior Tenure Track Researcher, head of the CONTACT Unit
Senior Researcher Tenure Track - Principal Investigator
COgNiTive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies
Alessandra Sciutti
Phone
+39 010 2897 327
Address
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia – Center for Human Technologies Via Enrico Melen 83, Building B 16152 Genova, Italy
Research center
CHT@Erzelli
About

Alessandra Sciutti is a Senior Tenure Track Researcher and head of the CONTACT (COgNiTive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies) Unit of the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT). She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Bioengineering and her Ph.D. in Humanoid Technologies from the University of Genova in 2010. After two research periods in the USA and Japan, in 2018, she was awarded the ERC Starting Grant wHiSPER (www.whisperproject.eu), focused on the investigation of joint perception between humans and robots. She has published more than 100 papers and abstracts in international journals and conferences, coordinates the ERC POC Project ARIEL (Assessing Children Manipulation and Exploration Skills), and has participated in the coordination of the CODEFROR European IRSES project (https://www.codefror.eu/).  She is currently Chief Editor of the HRI Section of Frontiers in Robotics and AI and Associate Editor for several journals, including the International Journal of Social Robotics and Cognitive System Research. She is an ELLIS scholar and the corresponding co-chair of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee for Cognitive Robotics. Her research aims to investigate the sensory and motor mechanisms underlying mutual understanding in human-human and human-robot interaction. For more details on her research and the full list of publications, please check the Contact Unit website or her Google Scholar profile.

Education

Title: Master's Degree in Neuroengineering
Institute: University of Genoa
Location: Genoa
Country: Italy
From: 2004 To: 2006

Title: Bachelor's Degree in Bioengineering
Institute: University of Genoa
Location: Genoa
Country: Italy
From: 2001 To: 2004

Title: Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Humanoid Technologies
Institute: University of Genoa - IIT
Location: Genoa
Country: Italy
From: 2007 To: 2010

Title: Master
Institute: ISICT - Institute of advanced studies in information and communication technologies
Location: Genoa
Country: Italy
From: 2004 To: 2006

Experience External

Title: Assistant Professor
Institute: University of Genoa
Location: Genoa
Country: Italy
From: 2018 To: 2018

Title: Visiting Researcher
Institute: Osaka University
Location: Osaka
Country: Japan
From: 2014 To: 2015

Title: Visiting Researcher
Institute: Rehabilitation Insitute of Chicago
Location: Chicago, IL
Country: USA
From: 2011 To: 2012

All Publications
2025
Tomaz M.S.L.S., Sciutti A., De Andrade J.V.R., Souza A.G.O., Fernandes B.J.T.
A Cognitively-Inspired Ensemble Architecture for Robust Decision-Making in Adversarial Environments
2025 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning, ICDL 2025
DOI 10.1109/ICDL63968.2025.11204432
Conference Paper Conference
2025
Beckova I., Pocos S., Belgiovine G., Matarese M., Eldardeer O., Sciutti A., Mazzola C.
A multi-modal explainability approach for human-aware robots in multi-party conversation
Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 253
DOI 10.1016/j.cviu.2025.104304
Article Journal
2025
Incao S., Mazzola C., Belgiovine G., Sciutti A.
A Roadmap for Embodied and Social Grounding in LLMs
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, vol. 397, pp. 43-52
DOI 10.3233/FAIA241488
Conference Paper Book Series
2025
Di Cesare G., Koush Y., Zeidman P., Sciutti A., Friston K., Rizzolatti G.
Bridging feeling and motion: Insula-premotor dynamics in the processing of action vitality forms
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 122, (no. 37)
DOI 10.1073/pnas.2514139122
Article Journal
2025
Garello L., Belgiovine G., Russo G., Rea F., Sciutti A.
Building Knowledge from Interactions: An LLM-Based Architecture for Adaptive Tutoring and Social Reasoning
2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Conference Paper Conference
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Dissemination
2025
Sciutti A., Gori M.
Apprendimento in sistemi umani e artificiali
Ciclo “Scienza condivisa 2025” su “Intelligenze Future”. Curatori: Alberto Diaspro, Enrico Paroletti. Genoa, May 12th
Public Event
2025
Sciutti A.
Building trust in human-robot collaboration
Webinar "Human-robot collaboration in the workplace environment" by the EU funded FORTIS project, online, 7th October 2025
Media
2025
Sciutti A.
Cognizione Artificiale e Robot Collaborativi
IULM for the City lecture, Milan, April 9th
Public Event
2025
Sciutti A.
Intelligenza Artificiale & Robotica Umanoide
THE BIG LEAP – Leadership Evolution AI Performance Cisco AI Executive Forum, Milan, JUne 12 2025
Outreach
2025
Sciutti A.
La nostra ricerca sulla robotica cognitiva e l'interazione uomo-robot
Siemens Women Circle
Outreach
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Scientific Talks
2025
Sciutti A.
Architecting Interaction: Towards a Human-Aware Cognitive Architecture
Architecting Intelligence: Exploring Intersections in Cognitive Robotics and Developmental Learning Workshop at ICDL 2025, Prague, Sept 16th
Workshop/Symposium
2025
Sciutti A.
A social perspective on cognitive architectures
ShanghAI Lectures, online, 4 December 2025
Workshop/Symposium
2025
Sciutti A.
Embodied Artificial Cognition: A Path Toward Shared Understanding
Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, 7th November 2025
Institute
2025
Sciutti A.
Embodied Cognition for Human-Aware Robotics
From Body to Mind The Role of Embodiment in Human Thought and Learning, IIT, Genoa, 21st October 2025
Workshop/Symposium
2025
Sciutti A.
Embodied Cognition for Human-Aware Robotics
IRIM 3D 2025 - Plenary Keynote, 18th October 2025
Conference
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