PhD Thesis
Name: Giovanni Granato
Type: PhD
Period: May 2019 - (Expected: May 2022)
Viva: TBD
Institute: Department of Computer Science, University of Plymouth, (Plymouth, UK)
Supervisor: Gianluca Baldassarre
Co-Supervisors: Emilio Cartoni, Thomas Wennekers
Title: "Consciousness and Representation Internal Manipulation"
Name: Emilio Cartoni
Type: PhD
Period: October 2013 - (October 2016)
Viva: 24 February 2017
Institute: Department of Medicine and Psychology, University of Rome `La Sapienza', (Rome, Italy)
Supervisor: Prof. Simona Cabib
Co-Supervisor: Gianluca Baldassarre
Title: "Computational Models and experiments on Pavlovian Instrumental Transfer"
Name: Valerio Sperati
Type: PhD in Computer Science
Period: October 2012 - (Suspended)
Viva:
Institute: University of Plymouth, (Plymouth, UK)
Supervisor: Gianluca Baldassarre
Co-Supervisor: Angelo Cangelosi, Daniele Caligiore
Title: "Active vision and intrinsic motivations for open-ended learning"
Name: Kristsana Seepanomwan
Type: PhD in Computer Science
Period: October 2011 - June 2015
Viva: 9 December 2015
Institute: University of Plymouth, (Plymouth, UK)
Supervisor: Angelo Cangelosi
Co-Supervisor: Gianluca Baldassarre, Daniele Caligiore
Title: "Mental imaging in humanoid robots"
Name: Vieri Giuliano Santucci
Type: PhD in Computer Science
Period: October 2010 - January 2016
Viva: 14 January 2016
Institute: University of Plymouth, (Plymouth, UK)
Supervisor: Marco Mirolli
Co-Supervisor: Angelo Cangelosi
Title: "Autonomous learning of multiple skills through intrinsic motivations: A study with computational embodied models"
Name: Vincenzo Fiore
Type: PhD in Psychobiology and Psychopharmacology
Period: 01 October 2006 - 11 January 2009 (then contract until December 2011)
Viva: 11 January 2009
Institute: Facolta' di Psicologia 1 (Department of Psychology), Università degli Studi "La Sapienza" (Rome, Italy)
Supervisor: Stefano Puglisi-Allegra
Co-Supervisor: Gianluca Baldassarre
Title: "Corticolimbic catecholamines in stress - modelling the appraisal of controllability"
Name: Daniele Caligiore
Type: PhD in Biomedical Engineering
Period: 01 January 2008 - 13 April 2011 (then contract until today)
Viva: 13 April 2011
Institute: Università Campus Bio-Medico (Rome, Italy)
Supervisor: Eugenio Guglielmelli
Co-Supervisor: Gianluca Baldassarre, Loredana Zollo
Title: "TRoPICALS: A Computational Embodied Neuroscience Model of Compatibility Effect"
Name: Francesco Mannella
Type: PhD in Psychobiology and Psychopharmacology
Period: October 2006 - 15 December 2009
Viva: 15 December 2009
Institute: Facolta' di Psicologia (Department of Psychology), Ripartizione IV, Università degli Studi "La Sapienza", (Rome, Italy)
Supervisor: Stefano Puglisi-Allegra
Co-Supervisor: Gianluca Baldassarre
Title: “Exploring the Psychobiology of Emotions and Motivations through Computational Models.”
Name: Dimitri Ognibene
Type: PhD in Robotic
Period: 01 January 2006 - 8 April 2009
Viva: 8 April 2009
Institute: Scuola di Dottorato di Scienze e Tecnologie per la Società dell'Informazione (Department of Engineering), Università di Genova (Genoa, Italy)
Supervisor: Giulio Sandini
Co-Supervisor: Gianluca Baldassarre
Title: "Ecological adaptive perception from a neuro-robotic perspective: theory, architecture and experiments."
Master Thesis
Name: Federico Cascino
Type: Laurea Magistrale - Corso di Laurea in Neurobiologia (Master Thesis in Neurobiology)
Period: October 2018 - November 2020 (to be confirmed)
Viva: xx November 2020 (to be confirmed)
Institute: Corso di Laurea in Magistrale in Neurobiologia, Facolta' di Scienze Matematiche Fisiche e Naturali, Universita' degli Studi di Roma `La Sapienza' (Rome, Italy)
Supervisor: Michele Migliore
Co-Supervisor: Gianluca Baldassarre
Title: Novelty-based plasticity mechanisms in the hippocampus: firing and spiking computational models (to be confirmed)
Name: Roberto Rovella
Type: Laurea Magistrale - Corso di Laurea in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics,
Period: March 2018 - October 2019
Viva: 24 October 2019
Institute: Department of Computer Science, Control and Management Engineering (DIAG), Universita' degli Studi di Roma `La Sapienza' (Rome, Italy)
Supervisor: Simone Scardapane
Co-Supervisor: Emilio Cartoni
Title: Intrinsically motivated exploration algorithm for an open-ended learning agent
Name: Dmytrò Tsapenko
Type: Laurea Magistrale - Corso di Laurea in Neurobiologia (Master Thesis in Neurobiology)
Period: January 2018 - July 2019
Viva: 17 July 2020
Institute: Corso di Laurea in Magistrale in Neurobiologia, Facolta' di Scienze Matematiche Fisiche e Naturali, Universita' degli Studi di Roma `La Sapienza' (Rome, Italy)
Supervisor: Andrea Mele
Co-Supervisor: Gianluca Baldassarre
Title: Condizionamento ed estinzione della paura nel topo: un modello computazionale
Name: Luca Badiali
Type: Laurea Magistrale - Corso di Neuroscienze Cognitive (Master Thesis in Cognitive Neuroscience)
Period: August 2018 - October 2019
Viva: 23 October 2019
Institute: Università degli Studi di Roma “Sapienza”, Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche Fisiche e Naturali, Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Fisica
Supervisor: Stefano Giagu
Co-Supervisor: Gianluca Baldassarre
Title: Variational Autoencoders for the representation of complex systems and applications in robotics
Name: Giovanni Granato
Type: Laurea Magistrale - Corso di Neuroscienze Cognitive (Master Thesis in Cognitive Neuroscience)
Period: July 2016 - July 2018
Viva: 17 July 2018
Institute: Facoltà di Medicina e Psicologia, Dipartimento di Psicologia, Corso di Laurea in Neuroscienze Cognitive e Riabilitazione Psicologica
Supervisor: Simona Cabib
Co-Supervisor: Gianluca Baldassarre
Title: Coscienza e goal-directed behaviour: dalle neuroscienze teoretiche ai modelli computazionali
Name: William Lord
Type: Master Thesis in Engineering Physics
Period: September 2017 - January 2018
Viva: 14 June 2018
Institute: School of Engineering Sciences, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden)
Supervisor: Pawel Herman
Co-supervisor: Gianluca Baldassarre
Title: Open-ended Affordance Learning and Planning in a System with Active Vision
Name: Ruggero Basanisi
Type: Laurea Magistrale - Corso di Laurea in Neurobiologia (Master Thesis in Neurobiology)
Period: July 2016 - December 2017
Viva: 15 December 2017
Institute: Corso di Laurea in Magistrale in Neurobiologia, Facolta' di Scienze Matematiche Fisiche e Naturali, Universita' degli Studi di Roma `La Sapienza' (Rome, Italy)
Supervisor: Andrea Mele
Co-Supervisor: Gianluca Baldassarre
Title: "Esperimenti e modelli computazionali sul goal-directed behaviour in un compito di apprendimento visuomotorio"
Name: Francesco Cerminara
Type: Laurea Triennale
Period: February 2016 - October 2017
Viva: 26 October 2017
Institute: Facolta' di Ingegneria, Corso di Lurea in Ingengeria Informatica, Universita' degli Studi Roma III (Rome, Italy)
Supervisor: Prof. Marta Cialdea
Co-Supervisor: Gianluca Baldassarre
Title: "Integrazione della generazione autonoma di skills motorie e pianificazione automatica"
Name: Valeria Oliva
Type: Laurea Magistrale - Corso di Neurobiologia (Master Thesis in Neurobiology)
Period: February 2015 - July 2016
Viva: 22 July 2016
Institute: Facolta' di Scienze Matematiche Fisiche e Naturali, Universita' degli Studi di Roma `La Sapienza' (Rome, Italy)
Supervisor: Stefano Puglisi-Allegra
Co-Supervisor: Gianluca Baldassarre
Title: "Interazione tra corteccia prefrontale mediale e amigdala nell'estinzione di un condizionamento all'anfetamina"
Name: Tania Moretta
Type: Laurea Magistrale - Corso di Neuroscienze Cognitive e Riabilitazione Psicologica (Master Thesis in Cognitive Neuroscience)
Period: January 2014 - July 2014
Viva: 22 July 2014
Institute: Facolta' di Medicina e Psicologia (Department of Medicine and Psychology), Universita' degli Studi di Roma `La Sapienza' (Rome, Italy)
Supervisor: Stefano Puglisi-Allegra
Co-Supervisor: Gianluca Baldassarre
Title: "Relazione tra l'effetto 'Pavlovian-instrumental transfer' specifico e la probabilita' di ricompensa strumentale"
Name: Valentina Meola
Type: Laurea Specialisitica in Ingegneria Biomedica (Master Thesis in Biomedical Engineering)
Period: 01 June 2013 - 13 December 2013
Viva: 13 December 2013
Institute: Università Campus Bio-Medico (Rome, Italy)
Supervisor: Loredana Zollo
Co-Supervisor: Gianluca Baldassarre
Co-Supervisor: Anna Lisa Ciancio
Title: "Controllo bioispirato di una mano robotica per compiti di manipolazione ciclica"
Name: Emilio Cartoni
Type: Laurea Magistrale - Corso di Neuroscienze Cognitive e Riabilitazione Psicologica (Master Thesis in Cognitive Neuroscience)
Period: 01 September 2013 - 17 July 2013
Viva: 17 July 2013
Institute: Facolta' di Medicina e Psicologia (Department of Medicine and Psychology), Universita' degli Studi ''La Sapienza'' (Rome, Italy)
Supervisor: Stefano Puglisi-Allegra
Co-Supervisor: Gianluca Baldassarre
Title: "Pavlovian to instrumental transfer: un modello computazionale bayesiano con cause latenti"
Name: Rodolfo Marraffa
Type: Laurea Magistrale - Corso di Filosofia della Conoscenza: scienza, politica, comunicazione (Master Thesis in Phylosophy)
Period: 23 January 2012 - 22 July 2012
Viva: 22 July 2012
Institute: Facolta' di Filosofia, Lettere, Scienze Umanistiche e Studi Orientali (Departemnt of Phylosophy), Università degli Studi "La Sapienza" (Rome, Italy)
Supervisor: Roberto Cordeschi
Co-Supervisor: Gianluca Baldassarre
Title: "Visione computazionale e visione ecologica: questioni epistemologiche"
Name: Paolo Tommasino
Type: Laurea Specialisitica in Ingegneria Biomedica (Master Thesis in Biomedical Engineering)
Period: 01 January 2011 - 17 February 2011
Institute: Università Campus Bio-Medico (Rome)
Viva: 17 February 2011
Supervisor: Eugenio Guglielmelli
Co-Supervisors: Gianluca Baldassarre, Loredana Zollo
Title: “Sviluppo di neurocontrollori ad apprendimento per rinforzo e validazione sperimentale su robot”
Name: Massimiliano Patacchiola
Type: Laurea Magistrale - Corso in Neuroscienze Cognitive e Riabilitazione Psicologica (Master Thesis in Cognitive Neuroscience)
Period: June 2010 - December 2010
Viva: December 2010
Institute: Facolta' di Psicologia (Department of Psychology), Universita' degli Studi ''La Sapienza'' (Rome, Italy)
Supervisor: Stefano Puglisi-Allegra
Co-Supervisor: Gianluca Baldassarre
Title: "Percezione corporea mediante reti neurali"
Name: Anna Lisa Ciancio
Type: Tesi di Laurea Magistrale - Corso in Neuroscienze Cognitive e Riabilitazione (Master Thesis in Cognitive Neuroscience)
Period: Dicember 2009 - May 2010
Viva: 24 May 2010
Institute: Università Campus Bio-Medico (Rome, Italy)
Supervisor: Loredana Zollo
Co-Supervisor: Gianluca Baldassarre
Title: "Controllo di una mano robotica antropomorfa basata sull'uso congiunto di CPG e rete neurale con apprendimento per rinforzo"
Name: Alberto Venditti
Type: Laurea Triennale in Psicologia (Master Thesis in Psychology)
Period: 30 September 2006 - 14 December 2007
Viva: 14 December 2007
Institute: Facoltà di Psicologia 1 (Department of Psychology), Università degli Studi "La Sapienza" (Rome, Italy)
Supervisor: Stefano Puglisi-Allegra
Co-Supervisor: Gianluca Baldassarre
Title: "Vigore nell'azione in esperimenti di condizionamento operante nei ratti: un modello computazionale"
Name: Francesco Mannella
Type: Laurea in Psicologia generale e sperimentale (Master Thesis in Psychology)
Period: 01 April 2006 - 14 March 2005
Viva: 14 March 2005
Institute: Facoltà di Psicologia 1 (Department of Psychology), Università degli Studi "La Sapienza" (Rome, Italy)
Supervisor: Orazio Miglino
Co-Supervisor: Gianluca Baldassarre
Title: “Apprendimento per rinforzo ed esplorazione dello spazio in Gallus-Gallus: un modello computazionale.”
Postgraduate Research Fellows (possibly within formal ISTC "Tirocinio" or "Collaborazioni Occasionali di Ricerca")
Name: Adriano Capirchio
Period: November 2018 - October 2020
Institute of degree: Facolta' di Biologia, Corso di Laurea in Neuroscienze (Department of Bology - Neuroscience), Universita' degli Studi di Roma `La Sapienza' (Rome, Italy)
Research: Development of electronic devices and deep neural network systems for the detection of emotional states.
Name: Francesco Montedori
Period: November 2018 - October 2020
Institute of degree: Facolta' di Biologia, Corso di Laurea in Neuroscienze (Department of Bology - Neuroscience), Universita' degli Studi di Roma `La Sapienza' (Rome, Italy)
Research: Development of electronic devices and deep neural network systems for the monitoring of air quality.
Name: Leandro De Persiis
Period: November 2018 - October 2019
Institute of degree: Facolta' di Psicologia (Department of Psychology), Universita' degli Studi di Roma `La Sapienza' (Rome, Italy)
Research: Applications of deep neural networks for the classification of text questions.
Name: Fabio Massimo D'Amore
Period: November 2018 - October 2019
Institute of degree: Facolta' di Matematica (Department of Mathematics), Universita' degli Studi di Roma `La Sapienza' (Rome, Italy)
Research: Applications of deep neural networks for the classification of text questions.
Name: Laura Romano
Period: January 2017 - March 2019
Institute of degree: Facolta' di Medicina e Psicologia (Department of Medicine and Psychology), Universita' degli Studi di Roma `La Sapienza' (Rome, Italy)
Research: Tests of a new mechatronic toy with normotypical and autistic children
Name: Tania Moretta
Period: 15 September 2014 - 31 August 2016
Institute of degree: Facolta' di Medicina e Psicologia (Department of Medicine and Psychology), Universita' degli Studi "La Sapienza" (Rome, Italy)
Research: "Behavioural addictions and revesal learning psichobiological experiments"
Name: Valentina Ceravolo
Period: 1 January 2013 - 7 June 2013
Institute of degree: Facoltà di Filosofia (Department of Phylosophy), Università degli Studi "La Sapienza" (Rome, Italy)
Research: "Bayesian models of goal-directed behaviour"
Name: Magda Mustile
Period: 1 February 2013 - 31 August 2016
Institute of degree: Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico Secondo”, Facolta' di Psicologia (Department of Psychology) (Naples, Italy)
Research: "Psychology experiments on intrinsic motivations based on the gaze-contingency paradigm"
Post-Doc Collaborations
Name: Ilaria Maglione
Role: Research Fellow
Period: March 2016 - December 2017
Research: Open-ended learning robots
Name: Beste Özcan
Role: Research Fellow
Period: 1 March 2014 - August 2018
Research: Development of interactive werable devices to facilitate social interaction of children with autism
Name: Armando Romani
Role: Research Fellow
Period: October 2012 - June 2014
Research: "A neural-network model of novelty detection in hippocampus targeting brain-imaging experiments"