Prof. Alessandro Di Nuovo is Professor of Machine Intelligence at Sheffield Hallam University. He is the leader of technological and digital innovations for independent lives for the Advanced Well-being Research Institute. He is with the Department of Computing, where is leading the Smart Interactive Technologies (SIT) Research Laboratory, which is conducting internationally renowned research in interdisciplinary applications of machine intelligence, including healthcare and well-being.

In the last 3 years, ADN has been awarded as PI £1M for research project in fundamental and applied topics in AI and Robotics, funded by public (EU H2020, EPSRC), private (IBM, NVIDIA) and charities (Sheffield Children Hospital).

His research specialises in computational intelligence and its application to cognitive modelling, human-robot interaction, computer-aided assessment of intellectual disabilities, and embedded computer systems.