Simone Gallo, Ph.D.
Research Fellow @HIIS Laboratory, CNR - ISTI
Research areas: Human-Centered Artifical Intelligence (HCAI), Conversational Interfaces, End-User Development (EUD)
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👨🏻‍💻 Passionate researcher and developer I'm a research fellow at the Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI) of the National Research Council (CNR) in Pisa, Italy. I received the Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence for Society from the National PhD Programme at the University of Pisa, with a thesis on conversational agents for end-user development of smart spaces. My research focuses on the design, development, and user testing of advanced conversational solutions, as well as the development and application of large language models. Building innovative and user-friendly systems is my goal. If you are interested in delving deeper into my research, please see my publication list!
Studies and Experiences
Feb 19, 2025
University of Pisa, HIIS Lab., CNR - ISTI
Ph.D
Received the Ph.D in Artificial Intelligence for Society. Thesis "Conversational Agents fon End-User Development of Smart Spaces", supervised by Fabio Paternò and Alessio Malizia.
2024 - Now
HIIS Lab., CNR - ISTI, Pisa, Italy
Research Fellow
Research on conversational agents to support end-users in managing smart environment automations, with a focus on explainability in automation conflicts and energy consumption. Part of the EUD4GSH Project.
2025
Cagliari, Italy
IUI2025 Web Chair
Web Chair for IUI2025, ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
2024
Web
IUI2024 Program Committee
Member of the Program Committee for IUI2024, ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
2023
University of Pisa
Lectures on Computational Linguistics
Focus on the latest models to learn and represent knowledge in mono- and multi-modal contexts, with particular emphasis on large language models. The event will cover various aspects related to the generation and transfer of knowledge, their interpretation, and explainability.
2022
University of Pisa
Summer School
Ph.D. AI & Society Summer School 2022. AI Lectures, Poster session, Group Project
2018 - 2021
University of Pisa
Master Degree
Master Degree in Digital Humanities - Graphics, interactivity and virtual environments Thesis in Development of a Conversational Agent for creating routines in IoT environment
2020
HIIS Lab., CNR - ISTI, Pisa
Stage
Collaboration as thesist with prof. Fabio Paternò
2014 - 2018
University of Pisa
Bachelor Degree
Bachelor Degree in Digital Humanities Thesis in Evaluation of automatic text translation quality from Italian to English, a comparison between Google, DeepL and Bing
Publications
Full list...Simone Gallo, Sara Maenza, Andrea Mattioli, Fabio Paternò. 2025. Explaining Automations in IoT Settings. IEEE Access Journal (Vol. 13). https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3609900
Tiziano Labruna, Simone Gallo, Giovanni Da San Martino. 2025. Positional Bias in Binary Question Answering: How Uncertainty Shapes Model Preferences. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.23743
Simone Gallo, Fabio Paternò, Alessio Malizia. 2024. A conversational agent for creating automations exploiting large language models. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-024-01825-5
Simone Gallo, Alessio Malizia, Fabio Paternò. 2023. Conversational Interfaces in IoT Ecosystems: Where We Are, What Is Still Missing. MUM '23: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3626705.3627775
Tiziano Labruna and Simone Gallo. 2023. Galliz at GeoLingIt: Enhancing BERT with Vocabulary Knowledge for Predicting the Region of Language Varieties of Italy. CEUR Workshop Proceedings (EVALITA 2023). https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3473/paper15.pdf
Simone Gallo, Alessio Malizia and Fabio Paterno. 2023. Towards a Chatbot for Creating Trigger-Action Rules based on ChatGPT and Rasa. CEUR Workshop Proceedings (EMPATHY 2023 Workshop at IS-EUD 2023). https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3408/short-s4-01.pdf
Simone Gallo and Fabio Paterno. 2022. A Conversational Agent for Creating Flexible Daily Automation. In Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2022). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 38, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1145/3531073.3531090
Simone Gallo, Marco Manca, Andrea Mattioli, Fabio Paternò, and Carmen Santoro. 2021. Comparative Analysis of Composition Paradigms for Personalization Rules in IoT Settings. In End-User Development: 8th International Symposium, IS-EUD 2021, Virtual Event, July 6–8, 2021, Proceedings. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 53–70. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79840-6_4
Last Update 20/09/2025