Nicole Novielli
Full Professor at PeoplewareAI
Bari, Apulia, Italy
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Top SchoolNicole Novielli is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bari and a decade-long researcher specializing in affective computing, sentiment analysis, and multimodal emotion recognition. She combines academic leadership—with roles from research fellow to Delegato del Rettore per la Transizione Digitale—with industry impact as Chief Scientist at PeoplewareAI and former CTO/co-founder of Splashmood. Her work bridges machine learning, NLP, biometrics, and human-computer interaction to analyze emotions in social media and collaborative systems, often focusing on embodied conversational agents and dialogue modelling. Known for translating research into products and institutional digital strategy, she brings a practical knack for moving prototypes into real-world deployments. Based in Bari, Italy, she pairs deep scholarly output with entrepreneurial experience, making her equally fluent in research methodology and applied innovation.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea Specialistica in Informatica - Software and Knowledge Engineering, Computer Science, Laurea Specialistica in Informatica - Software and Knowledge Engineering, Computer Science at Università degli Studi di Bari
English
Github Skills (33)
emotion-recognition10
polarity10
emotion10
classifier10
sentiment10
wordnet10
emotion-detection10
sentiment-classification9
sentiment-analysis9
lexicon9
nlp8
natural-language-processing7
deep-learning5
machine-learning5
pytorch5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
collab-uniba/qa_sentiment
Mar 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:12 PRs, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
collab-uniba/regression_study_stackoverflow
Dec 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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