Roberto Pieraccini

Roberto Pieraccini (born 15 November 1955 in Genoa, Italy) is an Italian-American electrical engineer, scientist, and author whose work has shaped the fields of speech recognition, natural language understanding, and spoken dialogue systems over more than four decades. He has been an active contributor to speech and language research and technology since 1981, with formative roles at CSELT in Italy, Bell Laboratories, and IBM Research, and leadership positions at SpeechWorks, SpeechCycle, the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Jibo, Google Zurich, and Uniphore, where he served as VP and Chief Scientist. He is the author of two books published by MIT Press: ''The Voice in the Machine'' (2012) and ''AI Assistants'' (2021). and holds an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Heriot-Watt University. Provided by Wikipedia