Published in ACL, EACL, EMNLP, NAACL, CoLM, TACL, Computational Linguistics, Cognition, and Cognitive Science; Giving a tutorial on Language and Vision Models at CLIC-it 2025; Invited panelist at Metropolis (1927) Reimagined organized by BètaBreak; 3 papers accepted at ACL 2025; Preprint available on arXiv; Scientific Advisor at IVADO Labs; Keynote speaker at MultiplEYE mid-term Conference (MuMiCo); Paper accepted in Findings of EMNLP 2024.
Research Experience
Currently an Assistant Professor at ILLC, University of Amsterdam, focusing on understanding and narration of visual events, ambiguous, underspecified, and implicit language, human-inspired mechanistic interpretability, and benchmarking and evaluation.
Education
PhD from CIMeC, University of Trento, supervised by Raffaella Bernardi; Postdoc in the DREAM project led by Raquel Fernández.
Background
Research interests include Natural Language Processing, Machine and Deep Learning, and Cognitive Science. Committed to studying, teaching, and advancing language-mediated intelligence in humans and machines.
Miscellany
Member of CERTAIN, faculty member of ELLIS, board member of SigSem, and Scientific Advisor at IVADO Labs.