Sandro Pezzelle
Scholar

Sandro Pezzelle

Google Scholar ID: PW6eQ6YAAAAJ
Assistant Professor at ILLC, University of Amsterdam
Natural Language ProcessingMultimodal Machine LearningAICognitive science
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
1,588
 
H-index
16
 
i10-index
23
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
25
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Published in ACL, EACL, EMNLP, NAACL, CoLM, TACL, Computational Linguistics, Cognition, and Cognitive Science; Giving a tutorial on Language and Vision Models at CLIC-it 2025; Invited panelist at Metropolis (1927) Reimagined organized by BètaBreak; 3 papers accepted at ACL 2025; Preprint available on arXiv; Scientific Advisor at IVADO Labs; Keynote speaker at MultiplEYE mid-term Conference (MuMiCo); Paper accepted in Findings of EMNLP 2024.
Research Experience
  • Currently an Assistant Professor at ILLC, University of Amsterdam, focusing on understanding and narration of visual events, ambiguous, underspecified, and implicit language, human-inspired mechanistic interpretability, and benchmarking and evaluation.
Education
  • PhD from CIMeC, University of Trento, supervised by Raffaella Bernardi; Postdoc in the DREAM project led by Raquel Fernández.
Background
  • Research interests include Natural Language Processing, Machine and Deep Learning, and Cognitive Science. Committed to studying, teaching, and advancing language-mediated intelligence in humans and machines.
Miscellany
  • Member of CERTAIN, faculty member of ELLIS, board member of SigSem, and Scientific Advisor at IVADO Labs.