Alessandro Suglia (Collaborator)

Lecturer in Embodied Natural Language Processing and a Fellow of the Generative AI Laboratory at the University of Edinburgh

Alessandro Suglia is a Lecturer in Embodied Natural Language Processing and a Fellow of the Generative AI Laboratory at the University of Edinburgh. He is co-lead of the “Generative AI for Robotics” theme at the National Robotarium, and a member of ELLIS. He also won the “Italy Made Me Award 2024” from the London Italian Embassy for outstanding Italian early-career researchers in the UK.

Alessandro’s research focuses on designing artificial agents that learn language by leveraging multimodal sensory information derived from interacting with the world and with other agents.

During his PhD, he was one of the main developers of Alana, the Heriot-Watt conversational AI which ranked 3rd in the Amazon Alexa Prize challenge in 2018. In his role as Assistant Professor at Heriot-Watt University (HWU), he led the HWU team “EMMA”, the only non-American university team which was one of the finalists of the Amazon Simbot Challenge—the first Amazon competition to develop Embodied AI agents able to understand language commands and execute actions in 3D simulated environments. Alongside several academic collaborations, he has also completed research collaborations with industry including Amazon Alexa AI, Meta AI, AlanaAI, and the European Space Agency— focused on developing innovative Multimodal Generative AI models for embodied and situated human-robot interaction tasks.