Giacomo Salici

Giacomo Salici is a computer and AI engineer. He received his M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in 2024, graduating in the Artificial Intelligence Applications curriculum. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Information and Communications Technologies at the AImageLab Research Group, under the supervision of Prof. Simone Calderara and Prof. Roberto Vezzani.

His research topics include deep learning for multimodal time series analysis in anomaly detection and predictive maintenance, robotics and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), and Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT). A more detailed description of his projects can be found at his website. 

Research Activities

Publications

1	Catalini, Riccardo; Salici, Giacomo; Biagi, Federico; Borghi, Guido; Biagiotti, Luigi; Vezzani, Roberto "LLMs as NAO Robot 3D Motion Planners" 2025 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW), Honolulu (United States), 19/10/2025, 2025 Conference
2	Rawal, Niyati; Singh Maharjan, Rahul; Salici, Giacomo; Catalini, Riccardo; Romeo, Marta; Bigazzi, Roberto; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Vezzani, Roberto; Cucchiara, Rita; Cangelosi, Angelo "Multimodal Dialogue for Empathetic Human-Robot Interaction" Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Robotics, Naples, Italy, September 10-12, 2025 Conference
3	Catalini, Riccardo; Biagi, Federico; Salici, Giacomo; Borghi, Guido; Vezzani, Roberto; Biagiotti, Luigi "LLMs and Humanoid Robot Diversity: The Pose Generation Challenge" Social Robotics, Italy, 10/09/2025, 2025 Conference