Alessio Palma

PhD student in Data Science @ Sapienza University of Rome

Pomezia, Latium, Italy

About

I am a Ph.D. student in Data Science at Sapienza University of Rome, specializing in computer vision, embodied AI, and 3D human motion analysis. My work focuses on human-centered AI, robotic manipulation, motion synthesis, and multi-agent systems. I have experience in both academic research and startups, including collaborations with TU Darmstadt and Babelscape. My contributions resulted in different publications at top venues. Beyond research, I am passionate about AI that has a practical impact on human daily life, with the goal of making technology more accessible and meaningful to society.

Experience

  • Sapienza Università di Roma (Roma, Lazio, Italia · On-site)
    • PHD Student
      Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos

      Supervisor: Fabio Galasso. Research interests: egocentric vision, procedural learning, motion synthesis, multi-LLM-agent systems, computer vision.

    • Teaching Assistant
      Sep 2024 - Dec 2024 · 4 mos

      Teaching assistant for the Advanced Machine Learning course, taught for the M.Sc. in Data Science. Implemented and evaluated the homeworks for the course.

    • Research Fellowship
      May 2024 - Oct 2024 · 6 mos

      Research in the fields of egocentric vision, multi-agent systems, deep generative models, and metanetworks. Mainly focused on extracting task graphs from egocentric cooking scenes.

  • Visiting Researcher at Technische Universität Darmstadt
    May 2025 - Oct 2025 · 6 mos

    Worked on in-context learning for bimanual robotic manipulation, leading to BiCICLe, a multi-agent leader-follower framework for training-free coordinated control. Supervised by Georgia Chalvatzaki and Fabio Galasso.

  • Software Engineer Internship at Babelscape
    Jun 2019 - Sep 2019 · 4 mos

    - Recognising dialect expressions used in different countries that speak the same language, both for English and Portuguese. Achieved 87% accuracy with a Java model that compares BabelNet’s senses starting from Wiktionary definitions. - Labeling BabelNet’s synsets based on their closeness to some main categorical synsets.