Tommaso Calò

PhD Candidate (HCI + AI)

I create interactive systems to empower people with AI. My goal is to enhance creativity and productivity in UI Design and Software Development. In my projects, I use methods from Human-Centered Design, Deep Learning and Software Engineering.

Education

Nov. 2021 —
Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence
Politecnico Di Torino, Turin, Italy
Thesis: Lowering Barriers: AI-Driven Techniques for End-User Software Creation
Advisor: Luigi De Russis, Co-advisor: Fulvio Corno
October 2021
M.S. in Data Science & Engineering
Politecnico Di Torino, Turin, Italy
Thesis: Financial Time Series Summarization
Advisor: Luca Cagliero, Co-advisor: Jacopo Fior
Thesis
March 2019
B.S. in Information Systems
Politecnico Di Torino, Turin, Italy

Honors and Awards

2018
FSAE Championship
First place in the electric vehicle category at the Formula SAE Italy competition with the PoliTo racing team
2019
Accenture Cybersecurity Competition
First place in the Accenture Cybersecurity Competition held at Politecnico di Torino

Publications

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Tech Report

Journal

J1
Enhancing smart home interaction through multimodal command disambiguation
Tommaso Calò, Luigi De Russis
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (PUC). 2024.
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Conference

C5
Towards Educator-Driven Tutor Authoring: Generative AI Approaches for Creating Intelligent Tutor Interfaces
Tommaso Calò, Christopher MacLellan
ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale (L@S). Atlanta, GA, 2024.
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C4
Towards A Visual Programming Tool to Create Deep Learning Models
Tommaso Calò, Luigi De Russis
ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS). Swansea, United Kingdom, 2023.
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C3
Leveraging Large Language Models for End-User Website Generation
Tommaso Calò, Luigi De Russis
International Symposium on End User Development (IS-EUD). Cagliari, Italy, 2023.
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C2
Generating Comparative Explanations of Financial Time Series
Tommaso Calò, Luca Cagliero, Jacopo Fior
European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS). Turin, Italy, 2022.
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C1
Style-Aware Sketch-to-Code Conversion for the Web
Tommaso Calò, Luigi De Russis
Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing System (EICS). Sophia Antipolis, France, 2022.
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Preprint

Workshop

W1
Creating Dynamic Prototypes from Web Page Sketches
Tommaso Calò, Luigi De Russis
International Workshop on Programming Abstractions and Interactive Notations, Tools, and Environments. (PAINT). Auckland, New Zealand, 2022.
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Poster

Demo

Miscellaneous

Teaching

Fall 2023
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Politecnico Di Torino, Turin, Italy
Human Computer Interaction (02JSK), Instructor: Luigi De Russis
Mentored student team projects for Human Computer Interaction (02JSK), an Master's-level course with 119 students enrolled.
Spring 2023
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Politecnico Di Torino, Turin, Italy
Image Processing and Computer vision (01TUJOV), Instructor: Bartolomeo Montrucchio
Mentored laboratory sessions for 'Image Processing and Computer Vision', a Master's-level course with 119 enrolled students.
Fall 2023
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Politecnico Di Torino, Turin, Italy
Human Computer Interaction (02JSK), Instructor: Luigi De Russis
Mentored student team projects for Human Computer Interaction (02JSK), an MS course with 119 students enrolled.
Fall 2023
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Politecnico Di Torino, Turin, Italy
Human Computer Interaction (02JSK), Instructor: Luigi De Russis
Mentored student team projects for Human Computer Interaction (02JSK), an MS course with 134 students enrolled.

Mentoring

Fall 2024
Andrea Silano
MS.C. in Computer Science, Politecnico Di Torino
Fall 2024
Francesca Russo
MS.C. in Computer Science, Politecnico Di Torino
Fall 2024
Filippo Castellarin
MS.C. in Computer Science, Politecnico Di Torino
Spring 2024
Ivan Dario Contreras Perez
MS.C. in Computer Science, Politecnico Di Torino
Large Language Models for Ambiguity Detection and Resolution in Smart Homes
Fall 2024
Giuseppe Salvi
MS.C. in Computer Science, Politecnico Di Torino
Web UI code generation: a transformer-based model applied to real-world screenshots

Service

Organizer
ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS) 2024
Reviewer
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2024, 2023, 2022
Member
2021 — Present
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

References

Dr. Luigi De Russis, Associate Professor
Department of Computer Engineering and Automation
Politecnico Di Torino
Dr. Christopher MacLellan, Assistant Professor
School of Interactive Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology