Scholar
Alessandra Sciutti
Google Scholar ID: YdbEJn8AAAAJ
CONTACT Unit, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,717
H-index
28
i10-index
75
Publications
20
Co-authors
60
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Awarded ERC Starting Grant wHiSPER (2018) for research on joint perception between humans and robots (www.whisperproject.eu)
- Coordinates ERC Proof-of-Concept project ARIEL (Assessing Children Manipulation and Exploration Skills)
- Participated in coordination of the EU IRSES project CODEFROR (https://www.codefror.eu/)
- Published over 100 papers and abstracts in international journals and conferences
- Published high-impact papers in 2025 in venues including PNAS, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, and Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Background
- Senior Tenure Track Researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) and Head of the CONTACT (COgNiTive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies) Unit
- Research focuses on sensory and motor mechanisms underlying mutual understanding in human-human and human-robot interaction
- Chief Editor of the HRI Section of Frontiers in Robotics and AI
- Associate Editor for journals including the International Journal of Social Robotics and Cognitive System Research
- ELLIS Scholar and corresponding co-chair of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee for Cognitive Robotics
