Alessandro Vinciarelli is a Full Professor at the University of Glasgow, where he is with both the School of Computing Science and the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology. He is a member of the Social AI group, in collaboration with Tanaya Guha, Mary Ellen Foster, Mathieu Chollet and Marwa Mahmoud.
His main research interest is Social Signal Processing (SSP), the computing domain aimed at modelling, analysis and synthesis of nonverbal behaviour in human-human and human-machine interactions. The core idea of SSP is that nonverbal behaviour (facial expressions, gestures, vocalisations, etc.) is the physical, machine detectable evidence of social and psychological phenomena. Correspondingly, his research focuses on the inference of psychological constructs (personality, conflict, attachment, roles, etc.) from nonverbal behavioural cues automatically detected in signals captured through multiple sensors.
