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Personal informationSurname(s) / First name(s) Sorrentino Alessandra
Address(es) 42, via Pericle Fazzini, 00127, Roma (RM), ItalyTelephone(s) 0652200419 Mobile: +39 3403080702
E-mail [email protected]
Nationality Italian
Date of birth 10/02/1993
Gender Female
Desired employment / Occupational field
Phd in BioRobotics
Work experience
January 2018–July 2018Occupation or position held Visiting Research Student
Main activities and responsibilities My work focuses on detecting behavioural cues from the recorded video during the School Attachment Monitor (SAM) project and verify whether these markers allow the machine to discriminate between two categories of attachment behaviour. Most of the adopted methodologies are based on deep learning.
Name and address of employer Alessandro Vinciarelli, ([email protected]), University of Glasgow, School of Computing Science,Glasgow
Type of business or sector Research activity
August 2017- January 2018
Occupation or position held Research Assistant
Main activities and responsibilities building an autonomous system able to continuous monitoring the state of a house and to plan daily caregiver’s task. The system is composed by a network of sensors, whose data are managed by an ontology framework developed by the PST team.
Name and address of employer Amedeo Cesta ([email protected]), ISTC-CNR, Via San Martino della Battaglia 44 - 00185 Rome – Italy
Type of business or sector Research activity
December 2015- September 2016
Occupation or position held Research Assistant
Main activities and responsibilities My work consisted of: analysing the literature about the methodologies and technological devices used in the multimodal human-robot interaction, implementing a Multimodal Communication and Control Module, that allows manoeuvring a telepresence robotic platform in a priority system architecture, and performing experimental sessions made to evaluate the effectiveness of the system.
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Name and address of the employer Amedeo Cesta ([email protected]), ISTC-CNR, Via San Martino della Battaglia 44 - 00185 Rome – Italy
Type of business or sector Research activity
March 2015- May 2015Occupation or position held Internship
Main activities and responsibilities I implemented a multimodal human-robot interaction system for the telepresence robot Giraff. Taking advantage of the Microsoft Kinect functionalities, I realized a multimodal HRI system based on speech and gestures commands.
Name and address of the employer Amedeo Cesta ([email protected]), ISTC-CNR, Via San Martino della Battaglia 44 - 00185 Rome – Italy
Type of business or sector Research activity
Education and training
September 2015 – July 2018Title of qualification awarded Master Degree in Science in Engineering in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered
Knowledge and ability to design and implement artificial intelligence and robotic systems, as well as the interdisciplinary skills that are essential to manage complex projects and their impact on the society. Program taught in English.
Name and type of organisation providing education and training
University of studies of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
Level in national or international classification
Personal GPA: 28.38/30Final grade: 110/110Thesis: “Long short-term memory network for automatic attachment assessment”
September 2011 – May 2015Title of qualification awarded Bachelor Degree in Computer Science Engineering
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered
Software developer, design and control of automation systems, Economics, Physics, Chemistry
Name and type of organization providing education and training
University of studies of Rome "RomaTre", Rome, Italy
Level in national or internation classification
Personal GPA: 24/30 Final grade: 99/100 Thesis:”MyGiraff: human-robot interaction system using speech and gestures”
September 2006 – July 2011Title of qualification awarded High school diploma
Name and type of organization providing education and training
Liceo Classico Francesco Vivona
Personal skills and competences
Mother tongue(s) Italian
Other language(s) EnglishSelf-assessment Understanding Speaking WritingEuropean level (*) Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production
Language B2 B2 B2 B2 B2
(*) Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
Social skills and competences Capability to work in a team. I worked in several group projects during my master and during my experiences in ISTC-CNR.
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Organisational skills and competences
I prefer to plan all my activities in advance defining appropriate deadlines.
Computer skills and competences Programming: Java, C\#, C++, Python, Visual Basic, Matlab, JavascriptSpecialized Libraries: Kinect SDK, Intel RealSense SDK, DeepLearning4J, OpenNi, NiTE, ROS, Keras, TensorFlow, OpenCV, JSoup, NaoqiOperative System: Microsoft, Mac, LinuxMicrosoft Office: Excel, Word, Power Point, OutlookCertificates: ECDL
Other skills and competences Gained experience with telepresence robot assistance for elderly Giraff.
Expert in programming Kinect sensor, especially for people detection, gesture and speech recognition. I worked with the Realsense camera for people detection and body tracking.
Knowledge of design and implementation of AI applications and deep learning architectures. Focus on planning autonomous systems and on analysing data coming from environment and human interaction.
Driving licence B, A1
Additional information
Pubblications Book Chapter - Cortellessa G., Fracasso F., Sorrentino A., Orlandini A., Bernardi G., Coraci L., De Benedictis R., Cesta A. Enhancing the Interactive Services of a Telepresence Robot for AAL: Developments and a Psycho-Physiological Assessment. In: Cavallo F., Marletta V., Monteriù A., Siciliano P. (eds) Ambient Assisted Living. ForItAAL 2016. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 426. pp 337--357, Springer, Cham
Journal - Cortellessa, G., Fracasso, F., Sorrentino, A., Orlandini, A., Bernardi, G., Coraci, L., De Benedictis, R., and Cesta, A. Robin, a telepresence robot to support older users monitoring and social inclusion: development and evaluation, Telemedicine and e-Health, vol. 24(2), pp. 145--154, 2018, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
To appear - Cesta, A., Cortellessa, G., Orlandini, A., Sorrentino, A., Umbrico, A., A Semantic Representation of Sensor Data to Promote Proactivity in Home Assistive Robotics, Intelligent Systems Conference, 2018 (Accepted February 2018)
Participation at Faires Maker Faire Rome 2018: The European Edition, "When Giraff meets KoaLa", December 1-3, Rome, Italy. I presented the new project developed in collaboration with the PST lab. It is an integrated system able to autonomously plan (using KoaLa framework) and guide an assistive robot (Giraff) to perform supportive actions based on both the context and the human’s needs.
Maker Faire Rome 2016: The European Edition, "Robin, an interactive intelligent robotic system", October 14-16, Rome, Italy. I presented the Multimodal Communication and Control Module, realized in PST Laboratory, implemented on Giraff robot. I was in CNR stand and I explained the additional robot functionalities to attendees.
TriesteNext: Umano post-Umano, September 23-25, Trieste, Italy. I won an accommodation grant as attendee of this event. I had the opportunity to meet Kathleen Richardson, Senior Research Fellow in Ethics of Robotics.
RomeCup 2016: L'eccellenza della robotica a Roma , March 16-18, Rome, Italy. I presented the multimodal human-robot interaction system implemented during my internship at PST Laboratory.
Maker Faire Rome 2015: The European Edition, "Robot di assistenza per gli anziani: GiraffPlus e i suoi sviluppi", October 16-18, Rome, Italy. As a maker, I shown the multimodal human-robot interaction system implemented during my internship at PST Laboratory. I explained the system in two talk sessions with Andrea Orlandini.
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- Autorizzo il trattamento dei miei dati personali ai sensi del D.lgs 196 del 30 giugno 2003
Roma 5 Settembre 2018
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