{"id":759,"date":"2020-07-22T19:04:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T17:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/persuasivelab\/?p=759"},"modified":"2026-03-17T13:54:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:54:40","slug":"alessandro-silacci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/persuasivelab\/2020\/07\/alessandro-silacci\/","title":{"rendered":"Alessandro Silacci"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">I obtained a master of science in engineering degree at the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, where I specialised in complex information systems. I mostly worked around data science and machine learning. As I am a huge sports enthusiast, I focused my master thesis around virtual coaching for road cyclists. My research interests are mostly focused around physical activities and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I started informatics with an apprenticeship, hence I have a general practical knowledge of IT on which I capitalised early on. I worked for many different clients, mostly doing web development. I also did two years of mobile development for a motorsports company based in England. It is while doing my bachelor thesis that I first experienced the research field, with Mr. Michel Beaudouin-Lafon and Mrs. Wendy E. Mackay at Universit\u00e9 Paris-Sud, and I fell \u201cin love\u201d with this constantly growing knowledge environment. Finally, I made a one-year civil service work developing a system to support patient healthcare after hospital discharge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I think that computer science really needs to be seen as a human partner and not replacement and thus users shall always be included in the creation process. I am thrilled to provide any contribution to the research world and encourage, a bit more, the partnership of computer science and humanity towards a common good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I obtained a master of science in engineering degree at the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, where I specialised in complex information systems. I mostly worked around data &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002070,"featured_media":1838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-external-collaborators","8":"category-phd-students-alumni"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/persuasivelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/persuasivelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/persuasivelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/persuasivelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002070"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/persuasivelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/persuasivelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/persuasivelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions\/2251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/persuasivelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/persuasivelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/persuasivelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/persuasivelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}