Umberto Zona, PhD

Member of the Innovatus Editorial Board

Notable Assignments

• Research Fellow at the Department of Education Sciences of Roma Tre University
• Subject Expert for the discipline “Inclusive Didactics”, Department of Education Sciences of Roma Tre University
• Annual research fellowship "Virtual assistants as cultural constructs. Machine education as a challenge for the inclusive society" at the Department of Educational Sciences of the Faculty of Education, Roma Tre University
• Annual research fellowship "Educating machines in the inclusive society. Limits and problems of machine learning. The case of virtual assistants"
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the editorial series Education and Artificial Intelligence, Roma Tre University

Publication Highlights

1. Zona U. & De Castro M. (2022). Machine Education and Social Inclusion. How the algorithmic choices affect human behavior. Chișinău: Eliva Press, ISBN 978-1636486000
2. Zona U. & De Castro M. (2020). Edusfera. Processi di apprendimento e macchine culturali nell'era social. RADICI E FUTURO. Lecce: Pensa MultiMedia, ISBN 978-88-6760-684-9
3. De Castro M., Zona U. & Bocci F. (2020). L’apprendimento macchinico tra Skinner box e Deep Reinforcement Learning. Rischi e opportunità. In Cecchinato G. & Grion V. (a cura di), Dalle Teaching Machines al Machine Learning (pp. 27-33). Padova: Padova University Press, ISBN 978-88-6938-199-7
4. Zona U. & De Castro M. (2018). Apprendimento e macchine didattiche nell’era social. Roma: Didagen.net, ISBN 978-1980-359814

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• Google Scholar Profile