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Marco Matarese

Postdoctoral researcher
Visiting Scientist
COgNiTive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies
Research center
About


Passionate about explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), human-robot interaction (HRI), and human cognition and biases. I am the only computer scientist who dreams of becoming a cognitive scientist.

Currently, I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) and a research fellow at the University of Naples Parthenope. I obtained my Ph.D. at the University of Genoa (DIBRIS) and the Italian Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor's and MSc degrees in Computer Science at the University of Naples Federico II. 

During my PhD, I investigated the influence of the explainability of social robots on human-robot collaboration and tutoring. I collaborated with Prof. Katharina Rolhfing from Paderborn University and the TRR 318 "Constructing Explainability" during my PhD period abroad, working on partner-aware explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) in tutoring with social agents. Previously, worked on robots' behavioral modeling and human-robot shared perception. I gave several invited talks at top institutions, including the University of Bielefeld (CITEC) and the International Symposium "Humans at the Centre of HRI" by Naver Labs Europe and Inria. For my MSc thesis, a research work conducted in conjunction with the Italian Institute of Technology, I received the Best MSc Thesis Award from Istituto di Biorobotica - Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Pisa.


Education

Title: PhD
Institute: Università di Genova
Location: Genova
Country: Italy
From: 2020 To: 2023

Title: Master in Computer Science
Institute: Università di Napoli Federico II
Location: Napoli
Country: Italy
From: 2018 To: 2020

Title: Bachelor in Computer Science
Institute: Università di Napoli Federico II
Location: Napoli
Country: Italy
From: 2014 To: 2018

All Publications
2024
Beckova I., Pocos S., Belgiovine G., Matarese M., Sciutti A., Mazzola C.
A Multi-Modal Explainability Approach for Human-Aware Robots in Multi-Party Conversation
arXiv preprint
Article Journal
2024
Cocchella F., Eldardeer O., Manca M., Matarese M., Rezzani A., Zedda E.
Robots for Humans (RfH 2024)-Embracing Human-Centred Robot Design
International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, pp. 4
Conference Paper Conference
2024
Booshehri M., Buschmeier H., Cimiano P., Kopp S., Kornowicz J., Lammert O., Matarese M., Mindlin D., Robrecht A., Vollmer A., Wagner P., Wrede B.
Towards a computational architecture for co-constructive explainable systems
2024 Workshop on Explainability Engineering (ExEn'24)
Conference Paper Conference
2023
Matarese M., Cocchella F., Rea F., Sciutti A.
Ex(plainable) Machina: how social-implicit XAI affects complex human-robot teaming tasks
2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Conference Paper Conference
2023
Matarese M., Rea F., Sciutti A.
How much informative is your XAI? A decision-making assessment task to objectively measure the goodness of explanations
HRI 2023 - Workshop on Social Robots Personalization, pp. 6
Conference Paper Conference
Scientific Talks
2024
Matarese M.
The Influence of Robots' Explainability During Collaborative Decision-Making
Terais Workshop
Workshop/Symposium
2023
Matarese M.
Partner-aware explainable artificial intelligence in human-robot tutoring
Paderborn University
Institute
2023
Matarese M.
Partner-aware explainable artificial intelligence in human-robot tutoring
Univerisity of Bielefeld (CITEC)
Institute
2023
Matarese M.
XAI in HRI: Robots' Influence in Collaborative Decision-Making
University of Bielefeld
Institute
2023
Matarese M.
XAI in HRI: Robots' Influence in Collaborative Decision-Making
University of Paderborn
Institute
Awards and Achievements
2020
Matarese M.
Premio di Laurea Istituto di Biorobotica - Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Pisa