Francielle Vargas
Scholar

Francielle Vargas

Google Scholar ID: 42bzuFQAAAAJ
PhD in Computer Science, University of São Paulo
Natural Language ProcessingHate SpeechFact-CheckingExplainable AIFairness/Bias
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
253
 
H-index
8
 
i10-index
7
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
20
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • 2025: Awarded the Maria Carolina Monard Award for Best Thesis in Artificial Intelligence.
  • 2025: Nominated by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) for Thesis Awards in Computer Science and in Multimedia, Hypermedia, and the Web.
  • 2024: Recipient of the Google Latin America Research Award (LARA).
  • 2024: Awarded ACL Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Grants for both EMNLP and NAACL.
  • 2020: SINCH Doctoral Research Scholarship; 2015: CAPES Master’s Scholarship; 2013: CNPq Undergraduate Scholarship.
  • 2012 and 2013: Outstanding Academic Achievement Award in Computational Linguistics (UFMG).
  • Served as program committee member for ACL and AAAI; co-organized ICWSM, WOAH, DeepXplain workshops and hate speech shared tasks.
  • 2025: Paper accepted at EMNLP introducing a multilingual benchmark to evaluate moral reasoning in LLMs handling hate speech via multi-hop explanations.