Alessandro Vietti is a linguist at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, where he directs the Alpine Laboratory of Phonetic Sciences (ALPS). He received his PhD in Linguistics from the University of Pavia and held postdoctoral positions at the Universities of Bern and Bergamo before joining Bozen-Bolzano. His research focuses on sociolinguistics, phonetics, and computational linguistics. He has worked on language contact and variation in Italian, bilingual speech and sociophonetic variation, and the structure of vowel systems. More recently, his work explores speech recognition with deep neural models, with a focus on low-resource languages and the interpretability of speech models. He has conducted research on Italian, Southern Bavarian (South Tyrol), Sardinian (Campidanese), and Ladin (Fassa Valley).