Simone Gallo

Ph.D Candidate in Artificial Intelligence for Society

@University of Pisa
@HIIS Laboratory, ISTI - CNR

Research area: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Conversational Interfaces, Natural Language Processing (NLP)

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About me

👨🏻‍💻 Passionate researcher and developer.

I obtained my bachelor's and master's degrees in Digital Humanities at the University of Pisa. At the end of my Master's degree, I got a PhD scholarship at the HIIS Laboratory (ISTI - CNR, Pisa).
My PhD research focuses on the use of a conversational approach (using chatbots and virtual assistants) to facilitate the management of sensors and smart objects in intelligent environments (such as smart homes) by non-expert users. If you are interested in delving deeper into my research, please see my publication list!

Studies and Experiences

2023

NaP

IUI Program Committee

Part of the Program Committee for IUI, 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

pinned element

2021 - Now

University of Pisa,
HIIS Lab., ISTI - CNR

Ph.D

Ph.D candidate in the national program "Artificial Intelligence for Society"

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., ISTI - CNR, 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

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. 2023. Supporting Users in Controlling Automations in Intelligent Environments Through Conversational Agents. CEUR Workshop Proceedings (Doctoral Consortium at IS-EUD 2023). https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3408/short-s1-04.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

Fabio Paternò, Simone Gallo, Marco Manca, Andrea Mattioli, and Carmen Santoro. 2022. Towards Understanding the Transparency of Automations in Daily Environments. CEUR Workshop Proceedings (IUI 2022 Workshop). http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3124/paper21.pdf

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