Organizers

Expertise across perception, personalization, and social signals

HEMI is organized and presented by researchers whose work spans embodied vision, multimodal learning, human-AI interaction, and computational social intelligence.

Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy

Yiming Wang

ywang AT fbk DOT eu
Researcher

Yiming Wang works on robotic perception, 2D/3D scene representation, semantic understanding, and embodied navigation and manipulation. Her recent research examines multimodal foundation models for embodied perception and reasoning. She received her PhD from Queen Mary University of London in 2018 and was a postdoctoral researcher at IIT (PAVIS).

She serves as an associate editor for the International Journal of Social Robotics and Pattern Recognition Letters, and has co-organized the HEAI Workshop at IROS 2025, GreenFOMO at ECCV 2024, and Sciar at IROS 2022.

Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy

Davide Talon

dtalon AT fbk DOT eu
Researcher

Davide Talon received his PhD in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Genova in 2024. His research focuses on multimodal learning, with emphasis on efficient adaptation of vision-language models and human-AI interaction.

He serves as a reviewer for major conferences and is affiliated with the Computer Vision Foundation and the Italian Association for Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning.

University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Alessandro Vinciarelli

alessandro DOT vinciarelli AT glasgow DOT ac DOT uk
Full Professor

Alessandro Vinciarelli is Full Professor of Computational Social Intelligence. His central interest is social signal processing: modeling, analysis, and synthesis of verbal and non-verbal behavior in human-human and human-machine interactions.

He has published more than 200 works, contributed to 15 national and international research projects as PI or co-PI, served as General Chair of ICMI 2017, and organized more than 30 international events.