| Sep 10, 2025 | I’ve been invited to give a spotlight talk and take part in the panel discussion at the ICSR 2025 workshop Beyond Words: The Role of Touch in Social Robotics. |
| Jul 02, 2025 | Our paper “Soundscape Captioning using Sound Affective Quality Network and Large Language Model” was accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. |
| Jun 17, 2025 | Our paper “Exploring LLM-generated Culture-specific Affective Human-Robot Tactile Interaction” was accepted by the International Conference on Social Robotics 2025. |
| Jun 09, 2025 | Our paper “Situated Haptic Interaction: Exploring the Role of Context in Affective Perception of Robotic Touch” was accepted by the IEEE RO-MAN 2025. |
| Apr 01, 2025 | I’m thrilled to share that I’ve started a new journey as a Visiting PhD Researcher at Cognitive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies of the Italian Institute of Technology. |
| Jan 06, 2025 | Our paper “Touched by ChatGPT: Using an LLM to Drive Affective Tactile Interaction”, was accepted as a late-breaking report at ACM/IEEE HRI 2025. |
| Dec 18, 2024 | Our paper was accepted by ICASSP 2025. |
| Dec 04, 2024 | Our paper “Tactile interaction with social robots influences attitudes and behaviour” was accepted by the International Journal of Social Robotics. |
| Oct 25, 2024 | Our paper wins the best paper award at the International Conference on Social Robotics 2024 🏆 |