Short Bio

I graduated in electrical engineering (MSEE) from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy in 1990. From 1990 to 1995, I was a researcher with Telecom Lab Italia (formerly CSELT), Torino. In January 1996, I joined AT&T Labs - Research in Florham Park, NJ, as Senior Researcher where I am currently employed in the IP & Voice Services Research Laboratory.

My research interests lie mainly in multimodal and spoken dialog systems, conversational agents, natural language processing, multimodal and speech system architectures, platforms and services.

I coauthored more than forty papers in the field of spoken dialogue systems, spoken dialogue system evaluation and speech recognition. I am a member of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and member of the IEEE Computer Society.