Personal profile
Research interests
Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learninng, Reinforcement Learning, Human-Robot Interaction, Robotics
Teaching
September 2023: NAO robot course for the 4th Summer School on Social Human-Robot Interaction, Poland
From 2022 to now: delivering Pepper robot programming labs for
COMP34212 Cognitive Robotics
COMP61342 Cognitive Robotics and Computer Vision
From 2019 to 2022: Graduate Teaching Assistant at The University of Manchester
COMP13212 Data Science
COMP23311 Software Engineering 1
COMP24011 Introduction to AI
COMP24111 Machine Learning and Optimization
COMP34212 Cognitive Robotics
COMP37212 Computer Vision
COMP61342 Cognitive Robotics and Computer Vision
DATA70132 Statistics & Machine Learning 2: AI, Complex Data, Computationally Intensive Statistics
Qualifications
Associate Fellowship Advance HE certification (June 2022)
Further information
INVITED TALKS
21 October 2022 – DeepMind (Online)
20-21 June 2022 – Advances in Data Science and AI Conference (Manchester, UK)
WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION
April and September 2022 – Traincrease - HORIZON2020 Workshop (Warsaw, PL and Manchester, UK)
May 2022 – IEEE PROGRESS Workshop (Singapore, SG)
April 2022 – Inaugural Workshop, Manchester Centre for Robotics and AI (Manchester, UK)
2019 – Student Volunteer for the International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cognition (Manchester, UK)
AWARDED GRANTS AND FUNDING
December 2023 - UK-Italy Trustworthy AI Visiting Researcher Programme
May 2022 – Professional Development Grant for the IEEE PROGRESS workshop
OUTREACH
May 2024 – Pint of Science
November 2023 – CRADLE Launch Event
June 2023 – Centre for AI and Robotics Industry Day
January 2023 – Convention of the North
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, MACHINE LEARNING FOR American Sign Language Recognition and Acquisition in Artificial Agents, The University of Manchester
Award Date: 10 May 2023
Master in Science, MSc in Computer Science, Universita Degli Studi di Padova
Bachelor of Science, BSc in Computer Science, Universita Degli Studi di Padova
External positions
Visiting researcher, Universita Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore
Feb 2024 → Mar 2024
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Distinguishing Concreteness Differences in LLM Representations via Linear Probing
Xie, H., Sha, Y., Maharjan, R. S., Tavella, F. & Cangelosi, A., 8 Apr 2026, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of CogSci 2026, the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Rio de Janeiro, July 2026.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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Grounding Hierarchical Vision-Language-Action Models Through Explicit Language-Action Alignment
Wulff, T., Tavella, F., Maharjan, R. S., Adikari, M. & Cangelosi, A., 7 Apr 2026, arXiv, 14 p.Research output: Preprint/Working paper › Preprint
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MimiCo: Learning Human-Robot Collaboration from Human-Human Collaboration
Chi, X., Pham, T., Tavella, F., Drinkwater, A., Collins, E. C. & Cangelosi, A., 30 May 2026, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2026).Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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Bridging the Communication Gap: Artificial Agents Learning Sign Language through Imitation
Tavella, F., Galata, A. & Cangelosi, A., 25 Mar 2025, 16th International Conference on Social Robotics + AI (ICSR 2024). Vol. 15561. p. 460–474 ( Lecture Notes in Computer Science).Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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From Concrete to Abstract: A Multimodal Generative Approach to Abstract Concept Learning
Xie, H., Maharjan, R. S., Tavella, F. & Cangelosi, A., 24 Jun 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) 31st International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP2024). Singapore: Springer Singapore, p. 76–89 (eBook Packages Computer Science Computer Science (R0)).Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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CRADLE: CRADLE - Centre for Robotic Autonomy in Demanding and Long-lasting Environments
Fisher, M. (PI), Adorno, B. (CoI), Cangelosi, A. (CoI), Dennis, L. (CoI), Dixon, C. (CoI), Groves, K. (CoI), Lennox, B. (CoI), Watson, S. (CoI), Weightman, A. (CoI), Farrell, M. (CoI), Marinho, M. (CoI), Ladosz, P. (CoI), Wood, K. (CoI), Collins, E. (CoI), Smith, K. (CoI), Parslew, B. (CoI), Li, Z. (CoI), Clinch, S. (CoI), Baniqued, P. D. (Support team), Flint, S. (Support team), Khan, D. (Technical team), Tse, K. W. (Technical team), Atia, M. (Researcher), Song, Y. (Researcher), Leslie-Dalley, S. (PGR student), Bettles, J. (PGR student), Limarga, R. (Researcher), Zheng, S. (Researcher), Slusarz, N. (Researcher), Le, H. L. (PGR student), Tavella, F. (Researcher), Bolarinwa, J. (Researcher), Chi, X. (PGR student), Rolph, M. (PGR student), Saravanan, D. (PGR student), Abeywickrama, D. (Researcher), Rafiq, Y. (Researcher), Bishop, C. (Researcher), Khan, S. M. (Researcher), Wheelhouse, L. (PGR student), Morley, A. (PGR student), Greenhaus, Y. (PGR student), Arumugam, S. (PGR student) & Soboyejo, T. (PGR student)
1/09/23 → 31/08/28
Project: Research
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RAI: Centre for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
Cangelosi, A. (PI), Lennox, B. (PI), Weightman, A. (CoI), Dennis, L. (CoI), Dixon, C. (CoI), Fisher, M. (CoI), Herrmann, G. (CoI), Dickson, A. (CoI), Lanzon, A. (CoI), Stancu, A. (CoI), Miller, A. (CoI), Freitas, A. (CoI), Nini, A. (CoI), Voronkov, A. (CoI), Brass, A. (CoI), Vijayaraghavan, A. (CoI), Parslew, B. (CoI), crowther, W. (CoI), Grieve, B. (CoI), Adorno, B. (CoI), Jay, C. (CoI), Wang, C. C. L. (CoI), Todd, C. (CoI), Soutis, C. (CoI), Arsene, C. (CoI), Dresner, D. (CoI), Barrett, E. (CoI), Gowen, E. (CoI), Arvin, F. (CoI), Podd, F. (CoI), Brown, G. (CoI), Reger, G. (CoI), Cooper, G. (CoI), Mairs, H. (CoI), Yin, H. (CoI), Kinloch, I. (CoI), Eleftheriou, I. (CoI), Li, J. (CoI), Carrasco Gomez, J. (CoI), Ainsworth, J. (CoI), Sinha, J. (CoI), Ozanyan, K. (CoI), Smith, K. (CoI), Twomey, K. (CoI), Margetts, L. (CoI), Ren, L. (CoI), Zhang, L. (CoI), Cordeiro, L. (CoI), Rattray, M. (PI), Bissett, M. (CoI), Elliot, M. (CoI), Alvarez, M. (CoI), Luján, M. (CoI), Nabawy BSc, MSc, PhD, MRAeS, SMAIAA, FHEA, M. (CoI), Peek, N. (CoI), Marjanovic, O. (CoI), Dorn, O. (CoI), Dudek, P. (CoI), Green, P. (CoI), Connolly, P. (CoI), Da Silva Bartolo, P. J. (CoI), Gardner, P. (CoI), Martin, P. (CoI), Potluri, P. (CoI), Curtis, R. (CoI), Schmidt, R. (CoI), Banach, R. (CoI), Batista-Navarro, R. T. (CoI), Kaski, S. (CoI), Midson, S. (CoI), Watson, S. (CoI), Holm, S. (CoI), Furber, S. (CoI), Schlegel, V. (CoI), Mirihanage, W. (CoI), Mansell, W. (CoI), Pan, W. (CoI), Sampson, B. (CoI), Sellers, W. (CoI), Yang, W. (CoI), Cai, P. (CoI), Sun, Y. (CoI), Alharthi, A. (Researcher), Macario Rojas, A. (Researcher), Serhan, B. (Researcher), Yu, C. (Researcher), Abara, D. (Researcher), Lopez Pulgarin, E. (Researcher), Faruq, F. (Researcher), Tavella, F. (Researcher), Semeraro, F. (Researcher), Liu, G. (Researcher), Fang, G. (Researcher), Niu, H. (Researcher), Taylor, H. (PI), Zhu, H. (PGR student), Collenette, J. (Researcher), Amano, K. (Researcher), Lo, K. C. J. (PGR student), Raggioli, L. (Researcher), Romeo, M. (Researcher), Ruocco, M. (PGR student), Ghaffari Saadat, M. (Researcher), Walmsley, M. (Researcher), Mubarik, A. (Researcher), Vinanzi, S. (Researcher), Su, Y.-H. (PGR student), McAleese, H. (PGR student), Stringer, P. (PGR student), Stoican, R. (PGR student), Ye, R. (PGR student), Kurawa, S. S. (PGR student), Zhang, T. (PGR student), Krywonos, W. (PGR student), Xu, Y. (PGR student), Tian, Y. (PGR student), Henderson, A. (Technical team), Morley, D. (Support team), Tallentire, J. (Support team), Smith, J. (Support team), Hawthornthwaite, S. (Support team), Carlson, J. (Support team) & Baniqued, P. D. (Researcher)
Project: Research
Impacts
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Centre for Robotic Autonomy in Demanding and Long Lasting Environments (CRADLE)
Baniqued, P. D. (Participant), Lennox, B. (Participant), Fisher, M. (Participant), Watson, S. (Participant), Flint, S. (Participant), Khan, D. (Participant), Tse, K. W. (Participant), Adorno, B. (Participant), Groves, K. (Participant), Atia, M. (Participant), Leslie-Dalley, S. (Participant), Dennis, L. (Participant), Zheng, S. (Participant), Limarga, R. (Participant), Farrell, M. (Collaborator), Cangelosi, A. (Participant), Dixon, C. (Participant), Collins, E. (Collaborator), Tavella, F. (Participant), Bolarinwa, J. (Participant), Chi, X. (Participant), Rolph, M. (Participant), Abeywickrama, D. (Participant), Rafiq, Y. (Participant), Bishop, C. (Participant), Wheelhouse, L. (Participant), Morley, A. (Participant), Bettles, J. (Participant), Soboyejo, T. (Participant), Weightman, A. (Collaborator), Marinho, M. (Collaborator), Ladosz, P. (Collaborator) & Smith, K. (Collaborator)
Impact: Economic, Environmental, Policy
Press/Media
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Press/Media: Other
Thesis
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Machine Learning for American Sign Language Recognition and Acquisition in Artificial Agents
Tavella, F. (Author), Galata, A. (Co Supervisor) & Cangelosi, A. (Main Supervisor), 10 May 2023Student thesis: Phd
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