Maria Grazia Miccoli is a PhD student in Digital Innovation and E-Health at the University of Bari “Aldo Moro”. She graduated in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence curriculum) in July 2025, defending the thesis “Quantum Emotional Classification in Social Robotics”. Her research focuses on the development of artificial intelligence systems capable of analyzing an individual’s psycho-physical state through multimodal and multisource data collected from social robots and wearable or environmental sensors, with the goal of predicting quality-of-life indicators across different dimensions and preventing psycho-physical distress. She has collaborated on the national project QUADRI, dedicated to Quantum Social Robotics, and conducted research at the same university through a scholarship supporting the completion of her bachelor’s studies, working on AI-based systems for narrative medicine support. The supervisor of the research studies is Prof. Berardina Decarolis. The co-supervisor is Prof. Corrado Loglisci

Research Interests

Social Robotics, Quantum Computing, Quantum Social Robotics, Machine Learning, Deep Learning.

Maria Grazia Miccoli
PhD Student



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2025
Berardina Nadja De Carolis, Corrado Loglisci, Maria Grazia Miccoli, Giuseppe Palestra, Sergio Violante:
Quantum-Enhanced Social Robotics: The QUADRI Project. UMAP (Adjunct Publication): 151-155 (2025)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3708319.3735545
Maria Grazia Miccoli, Berardina Nadja De Carolis, Giuseppe Palestra, Aurora Toma:
Enhancing Digital Narrative Medicine through Emotion Analysis in Conversational Agents. UMAP: 290-294 (2025)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3699682.3728334
Nicola Macchiarulo, Berardina De Carolis, Corrado Loglisci, Vito Nicola Losavio, Maria Grazia Miccoli, Giuseppe Palestra, Carlos Nombre:
XFERa: Xplainable Emotion Recognition for improving transparency and trust (short paper). IUI Workshops: 69-77 (2025)
DOI: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3957/AXAI-paper08.pdf


2024
Ilenia Amati, Berardina Nadja De Carolis, Stefania Massaro, Maria Grazia Miccoli, Giuseppe Palestra, Loredana Perla, Aurora Toma:
Investigating Nao's Impact on Promoting Motor Skills in Young Children with ASD (short paper). F4MR@AI*IA: 35-39 (2024)
DOI: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3932/paper6.pdf
Giovanna Castellano, Maria Grazia Miccoli, Raffaele Scaringi, Gennaro Vessio, Gianluca Zaza:
Using LLMs to explain AI-generated art classification via Grad-CAM heatmaps. XAI.it@AI*IA: 65-74 (2024)
DOI: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3839/paper5.pdf