Assistant Professor - Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Sicilia’s research interests lie broadly in the areas of natural language processing and human-AI collaboration with a particular focus on AI systems that use language to coordinate communication, perception, and action in uncertain, multimodal environments. Current examples of interest include application of Large Language Models for scientific discovery and healthcare.
His expertise has been recognized with multiple paper and reviewer awards from top computational linguistics and machine learning venues, including *ACL venues, AISTATS, and UAI, and through service as an Area Chair for ACL, CoNLL, and EMNLP. Sicilia’s research has also been applied in publicly deployed AI systems, most notably in the Amazon-funded Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge II, where he led a team to a third-place finish.
Education
Ph.D., Computer Science, Northeastern University, 2025.
B.S., Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, 2019.