Academic
Human-centred and symbiotic AI: systems that augment people instead of replacing them, and that people can understand, question, and trust.
Postdoctoral Researcher Inria · WIMMICS Team
Andrea Esposito
Hi, I’m Andrea! I’m a postdoctoral researcher at Inria, in the Wimmics team at Université Côte d’Azur. I study how people and AI systems can work together: I’m interested in AI that augments human abilities rather than replacing them, and that people can understand, question, and trust.
Before moving to France, I earned my PhD in Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Bari Aldo Moro. Today I’m building LLM-based conversational assistants that help scientists explore metabolomics knowledge graphs.
If you want the full story, have a look at my curriculum or my publications.
Writing
Essays, brief research ideas, and personal columns on AI, science, writing by hand, and digital well-being.
Latest posts
- Frankfurt Through My Lens
- On Doom-Scrolling and Brain Fog as Escaping Mechanisms
- On Compendiums and General Notebooks Usage
- My struggle with boredom in an uninteresting city
Photography
Street and architecture, mostly: wandering around a city, trying to see familiar places under a new light.
Research interests
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Human-Centered and Symbiotic AI
Designing AI systems that augment people instead of replacing them, keeping humans in control.
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Human-AI Interaction
Studying how people perceive, use, and trust AI, including the mental models they build of it.
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Explainable AI
Making the behavior of AI models understandable to the people who rely on them.
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Conversational AI and Knowledge Graphs
LLM-based assistants that make complex scientific knowledge accessible through natural language.
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Usability, UX, and Accessibility
Evaluating and improving interactive systems so that they work well for everyone.