Dr Marco Volpe
Lecturer
School/Department: Computing and Mathematical Sciences, School of
Email: mv163@leicester.ac.uk
Profile
Marco Volpe is a lecturer at the University of Leicester. He is a member of the Creative Computing Research Group. He holds a PhD in Computer Science. Background is in Logic, Formal Methods, Artificial Intelligence. Interested in Computational Creativity and Computational Storytelling.
Research
Research interests:
- Computational storytelling
- Computational creativity theory
- Applications of large language models
Selected publications:
- Sonia Marin, Dale Miller, Elaine Pimentel, Marco Volpe: From axioms to synthetic inference rules via focusing. Annals of Pure and Applied Logic. 173(5): 103091 (2022)
- Fabrício Góes, Marco Volpe, Piotr Sawicki, Marek Grzes, Jacob Watson:Pushing GPT’s Creativity to Its Limits: Alternative Uses and Torrance Tests. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC) 2023.
- Luis Mienhardt, Marco Volpe: Enhancing interactivity in Propp-based narrative generation. Proceedings of the International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS) 2021: 260-265. Springer, 2021.
Supervision
I'm currently looking for PhD students interested in computational creativity, computational storytelling, applications of large language models.
I am currently the supervisor of a number of BSc and MSc Final Year projects and the second supervisor of a PhD on "A Computational Approach based on Aesthetic to Stimulating Human Creativity".
Teaching
Currently teaching:
- Computational Creativity
- Emerging Technologies
- SciArt and Big Data Analysis
- Ideation and Design
- Creative Thinking