Claudio Greco

I am Research Fellow in Conversational Systems at Heriot-Watt University working in the UKRI TAS Node on Trust, whose goal is to understand how to build, maintain, and manage trust in robotic and autonomous systems. My work focuses on designing and developing trustworthy conversational agents which are able to adapt in order to better align to human values.

Before that, I obtained a PhD in Cognitive and Brain Sciences at the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (University of Trento) working in the Language and Vision Research Group under the supervision of Raffaella Bernardi. Before enrolling in my Ph.D program, I obtained B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science at the University of Bari, where I worked on social network analysis and (conversational) recommender systems, respectively.

Generally, my work lies at the intersection between Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, and Cognitive Science. My research focuses on training deep neural networks from several modalities such as language and vision. I am also interested in understanding how grounded conversational agents can learn new tasks adapting their knowledge quickly and reusing the previously-learned skills without forgetting them.