Dr Alessandro Suglia ☕️
Dr Alessandro Suglia

Lecturer in Embodied Natural Language Processing

Alessandro Suglia is a Lecturer at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh (equivalent to Assistant Professor in the US — a permanent academic position). I am also a member of the ELLIS network and a GAIL Fellow.

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Interests
  • Generative AI for Robotics and Embodied AI
  • Multimodal Learning
  • Conversational AI
Education
  • PhD in Robotics and Autonomous Systems

    Heriot-Watt University & University of Edinburgh

  • MRes in Robotics and Autonomous Systems

    Heriot-Watt University & University of Edinburgh

  • MSc in Computer Science

    University of Bari, Aldo Moro

  • BSc in Computer Science

    University of Bari, Aldo Moro

📚 My Research
Alessandro’s research focuses on designing artificial agents that learn language by leveraging sensory information derived from interacting with the world and with other agents. He is a Lecturer at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Alongside several academic collaborations, he also completed research collaborations with Amazon Alexa AI, Meta AI, and the European Space Agency focused on developing innovative Multimodal Generative AI models for embodied and situated human-robot interaction tasks.
Featured Publications
Recent Publications
(2026). VoyagerVision: Investigating the Role of Multi-modal Information for Open-ended Learning Systems. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 1468)).
(2026). Retrievit: In-context Retrieval Capabilities of Transformers, State Space Models, and Hybrid Architectures. CoRR.
(2026). Same Answer, Different Representations: Hidden instability in VLMs. CoRR.
(2026). VLM-RobustBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Robustness of Vision-Language Models. ICML 2026.