Scholar
Alessio Galatolo
Google Scholar ID: Wyw_fPIAAAAJ
PhD Student at Uppsala University
Citations & Impact
Citations
26
H-index
3
i10-index
1
Publications
12
Co-authors
1
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - July 2025: Paper 'Beyond Ethical Alignment: Evaluating LLMs as Artificial Moral Assistants' accepted at ECAI 2025
- - June 2025: Gave the seminar 'Large Language Models for Socially Competent and Adaptive Robotics'
- - May 2025: Paper 'Visualising Policy-Reward Interplay to Inform Zeroth-Order Preference Optimisation of Large Language Models' accepted at ACL 2025 Findings
- - April 2025: Paper 'Simultaneous text and gesture generation for social robots with small language models' accepted for Frontiers in Robotics and AI
- - April 2024: Arrived third at the ImpactAI hackathon
- - September 2024: Wrote an article for SVEP (pp. 8)
- - June 2024: Presented research at UDC's lunch seminar
- - June 2024: New pre-print available for paper 'DIEKAE: Difference Injection for Efficient Knowledge Augmentation and Editing of Large Language Models'
- - June 2024: New pre-print (now accepted to JAIR) available for paper in collaboration with the University of Bologna 'Promoting Fairness and ...'
Research Experience
- - Uppsala University: Teaching Assistant for 'Intelligent Interactive Systems' since 08/2022, 'Social Robotics' since 01/2024, and 'Large Language Models and Societal Consequences' since its first iteration
- - KTH Royal Institute of Technology: Teaching Assistant for 'Artificial Intelligence' from 12/2020 to 06/2022, 'Deep learning in Data Science' from 03/2022 to 06/2022, and 'Search Engines and Information Retrieval Systems' from 01/2022 to 06/2022
Education
- - Degree: Master's
- - School: KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)
- - Year: 2022
- - Major: Machine Learning
- - Thesis: Explored the incorporation of emotions and personality into a conversational social agent
- - Degree: Bachelor's
- - School: University of Pisa (Italy)
- - Major: Computer Science
- - Thesis: Investigated the use of whole positive numbers in traditional switching theory with applications e.g. in data mining
Background
- - Research Interests: Large Language Models, Knowledge Manipulation, Personality Expression, Multi-Modal Generation in Social Robots, and all the ethical implications involved
- - Field: Social Robotics
- - About: A fourth-year PhD student at the Social Robotics Lab, Uppsala University. Also part of PREVENT, a Uppsala-based project for cardio-metabolic disease prevention in disadvantaged populations.
Miscellany
- - Open to master's theses and internships on Large Language Models in selected topics. Strong knowledge of PyTorch and Language Models is required. Willingness to pursue a publication is an advantage.
