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AI Expert & Human Computation Advocate
Academia
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge (2017–2019)
US Postdoctoral Associate in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL, PI: R. Barzilay)
Research in Information Extraction for Health Care, Pharmaceutical Industry and Fake News Detection
Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore (2016–2017)
Postdoctoral Fellow in Information Systems Technology and Design (ISTD, PI: Y. Zhang)
Research and teaching in Natural Language Processing
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong (2013–2016)
PhD in Computational Linguistics (Supervisors: C.-R. Huang, Q. Lu)
Making Sense: from Word Distribution to Meaning
GPA: 3.9
University of Pisa, Italy (2009–2013)
M.A. in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (Supervisors: A. Lenci, S. Schulte im Walde)
SLQS: An Entropy Measure
GPA: 3.8, Graduation: 110/110 cum laude
University of Pisa, Italy (2005–2009)
Bachelor in Modern Literature (Supervisor: D. Romagno)
Leggendo Narrativa: Appunti sulla Lettura e Comprensione del Testo Narrativo
GPA: 3.9, Graduation: 110/110 cum laude
International Research Experience
Free University of Bolzano, Italy (2016)
ESSLLI - European Summer School in Language, Logic and Information
Role: Co-Chair of the Student Session for Language and Computation
Nara Institute of Science and Technology (Supervisor: Y. Matsumoto) (2016)
Attachment at NAIST. Nara, Japan
GPA: N/A
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (2015)
ESSLLI (European Summer School in Language, Logic and Information)
VU University Amsterdam (2014)
LOT Winter School in Linguistics and Related Fields
Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS), University of Stuttgart (2013)
Erasmus Placement, Internship Program
Summer School at the University of Trento, Italy (2010)
Harvard Summer School in Mind/Brain Sciences
GPA: 3.5
Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, Italy (2010)
Criminology Seminar with Roberto Saviano
Organization Activities
Sponsorship Chair at the Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2022)
Co-Organizer of the Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2022) workshop (2022)
Publicity Chair at the North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2021)
Co-Organizer of the Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2021) workshop (2021)
Co-Organizer of the CogALeX Shared Task, CogALeX 2020 (COLING 2020, Barcelona, Spain) (2020)
Area Chair at the Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2020), Semantics (2020)
Area Chair at the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2020), Lexical Semantics (2020)
Co-Organizer of the Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2020) workshop (2020)
Co-Organizer of the Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2019) workshop (2019)
Co-Organizer of Task 9 on Hypernymy Discovery, SemEval (NAACL 2018, New Orleans, US) (2018)
Area Chair in Lexical Semantics at *SEM 2018 (NAACL 2018, New Orleans, US) (2018)
Co-Organizer of the CogALeX Shared Task, CogALeX 2016 (COLING 2016, Osaka, Japan) (2016)
Invited Talks
Conference of Science and Space Practitioners - Turin, Italy (2024)
Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA), University of Cambridge (2024)
SDSU Computational Science Research Center - Deep Medicine - Virtual (2022)
RE-WORK - NLP for Healthcare - Virtual (2022)
WAIC - Round table - Virtual (2021)
WAIC - Covid Vaccine Opinion Analysis - Virtual (2021)
AI4 Healthcare - NLP: Challenges and Opportunities in Healthcare - Virtual (2021)
AI4 - NLP: Challenges and Opportunities in Healthcare - Las Vegas, USA (Sep 2020)
EGG on air, Dataiku - Virtual (2020)
AI Summit - How to Generalize Neural Networks - New York, USA (Dec 2019)
GlobalLink Next - Round Table on New Technology and the Importance of Data - San Francisco, USA (Oct 2019)
The White House - Natural Language Processing for Administrating a Country - Washington DC, USA (Sep 2019)
EmTech (MIT Review) - Information Extraction in Healthcare and Pharma - Mexico City (Jul 2019)
El Tiempo - Artificial Intelligence in Media and Journalism - Bogotá, Colombia (Apr 2019)