Silvia Rossi is a Full Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies (DIETI) of the University of Naples Federico II, where she leads the research group of the PRISCA Lab (Projects of Intelligent Robotics and Advanced Cognitive Systems). She holds a degree in Physics from the University of Naples Federico II and a PhD in Computer Science and Telecommunications from the University of Trento.
Her research activities lie at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems, and Social Robotics.
More specifically, her main research areas include:
- Human-Robot Interaction
- Machine Learning for Artificial Perception
- Architectures for Robot Behaviour Adaptation
- Socially Assistive Robotics
- Group Recommender Systems
- Decision Support Systems
- Teamwork and Multi-Agent Coordination
Her research achievements are documented by publications in international journals and conference proceedings, participation as Principal Investigator in national and international research projects, editorial activities for leading journals in her research fields, invited keynote speeches and seminars, and awards and recognitions for her scientific contributions.
Furthermore, in the fields of human-robot interaction and social robotics, she holds an internationally recognized position, as demonstrated by her appointment to organizational roles, including General Chair and Program Chair, at major international scientific conferences.
She serves on program committees and as an Associate Editor for prestigious international scientific journals in the fields of AI and robotics, including IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and Pattern Recognition Letters.
