Dr. Vieri Giuliano Santucci

Vieri Giuliano Santucci received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Plymouth, UK, following an M.S. in Theories and Techniques of Knowledge (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Rome "La Sapienza") and a B.Sc. in Philosophy (University of Pisa). He is currently a senior researcher at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council (ISTC-CNR, Rome), where he leads the Autonomy Research in Intelligent Systems and Ethics (ARISE) group. His research mainly focuses on cognitive and autonomous robotics and reinforcement learning, developing architectures and algorithms for intrinsically motivated open-ended learning. He is also interested in related topics in cognitive science and computational neuroscience.