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Dr Marco Volpe
Lecturer in Creative Computing

School/Department: Computing and Mathematical Sciences, School of
Email: mv163@leicester.ac.uk
Profile
I am currently a lecturer at the Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ and a member of the Creative Computing Research Group. I obtained a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Verona in 2010.
My background is in Logic, Formal Methods, Artificial Intelligence. Current research interests include Computational Creativity and Computational Storytelling.
I am also the Placement Tutor for the BSc programs of Computer Science, Software Engineering and Creative Computing.
Research
Research interests:
- Computational storytelling
- Computational creativity theory
- Applications of large language models
Selected publications:
- Sonia Marin, Dale Miller, Elaine Pimentel, Marco Volpe: . Annals of Pure and Applied Logic. 173(5): 103091 (2022)
- Fabrício Góes, Marco Volpe, Piotr Sawicki, Marek Grzes, Jacob Watson:. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC) 2023.
- Luis Mienhardt, Marco Volpe: . Proceedings of the International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS) 2021: 260-265. Springer, 2021.
Supervision
Teaching
Currently teaching:
- Computational Creativity
- Emerging Technologies
- SciArt and Big Data Analysis
- Ideation and Design
- Creative Thinking