Dr Marco Volpe

I am currently a lecturer at the University of Leicester and a member of the Creative Computing Research Group. I obtained a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Verona in 2010.
My background is in Logic, Formal Methods, Artificial Intelligence. Current research interests include Computational Creativity and Computational Storytelling.
I am also the Admissions Tutor for the Creative Computing BSc course and the Placement Tutor for UG Computing courses.

Research interests:

• Computational storytelling
• Computational creativity theory
• Applications of large language models

Selected publications:

• Abdullah Al Rabeyah, Fabrício Góes, Marco Volpe, Talles H. Medeiros: Do LLMs Agree on the Creativity Evaluation of Alternative Uses? Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC). 2025.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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. 

Currently teaching:

• Computational Creativity
• Emerging Technologies
• SciArt and Big Data Analysis
• Ideation and Design
• Creative Thinking