short cv
Research experience
- Senior researcher – Digital Humanities group, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy (2024–)
- Researcher – Digital Humanities group, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy (2021–2024)
- Visiting Ph.D. fellow – NLPnorth group, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark (2019–2020)
- Research assistant – The Microsoft Research COSBI, Italy (2017–2020)
Education
- Ph.D. in Information and Communication Technology, ICT International Doctoral School, Italy (2017–2021)
- M.Sc. in Computer Science (110/110 cum laude), University of Trento, Italy (2015–2017)
- B.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Trento, Italy (2011–2015)
- Others: selected participant, AthNLP Summer School, Greece (2019)
Invited talks and seminars
- Invited seminar – “Ethics in NLP” seminar, University of Turin (03/2025)
- Invited seminar – DiSLL seminar series, University of Padua (10/2024)
- Invited talk – “De bèlt um ins” international conference, Bersntoler Kulturinstitut (10/2024)
- Invited talk – “Technology meets local and minority languages” workshop, University of Parma (12/2023)
- Invited talk and panelist – “Multi* workshop on linguistic variation”, IT University of Copenhagen (10/2023)
- Invited seminar – Digital Humanities seminar series, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (06/2021)
- Invited seminar – MilaNLP seminar series, Bocconi University (04/2021)
- Invited seminar – Content-centered Computing seminar series, University of Turin (04/2021)
Professional service
Organizing committee
- W-NUT 2025 – Workshop organizer, “Workshop on Noisy and User-generated Text”, 10th edition (Albuquerque, USA)
- NL4AI 2023 – Workshop organizer, “Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence” workshop, 7th edition (Rome, Italy)
- BoF @EACL 2023 – Session organizer, Birds-of-a-Feather on “Linguistic Variation and Diversity” (Dubrovnik, Croatia)
- GeoLingIt @EVALITA 2023 – Task organizer, Task on Geolocation of Linguistic Variation in Italy (Parma, Italy)
- HaSpeeDe3 @EVALITA 2023 – Task organizer, Task on Hate Speech Detection, 3rd edition (Parma, Italy)
- MultiLexNorm @W-NUT 2021 – Task organizer, Task on Multilingual Lexical Normalization (Punta Cana, Dom. Rep.)
Area chairing and editorial activities
- ACL 2025 – Area Chair for the area “Multilingualism and Cross-Lingual NLP” (2025)
- IJCoL journal – Guest editor, special issue on LLMs in the “Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics” (2024)
Program committee and reviewing (selected)
- ACL (2023, 2022, 2021) – Annual Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- EMNLP (2024, 2022, 2021) – Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
- EACL (2023, 2021) – European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- NAACL (2022) – Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- COLING (2025, 2024) – International Conference on Computational Linguistics
- LREC (2024) – International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (jointly organized with COLING)
- CoNLL (2021) – Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning
- W-NUT (2025) – Workshop on Noisy and User-generated Text
- SemEval (2022) – International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation
- AKBC (2021) – Conference on Automated Knowledge Base Construction
- CLiC-it (2023) – Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics
- ACL SRW (2022) – ACL Student Research Workshop
- EVALITA (2023) – Evaluation Campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech Tools for Italian
- ARR (2021–current) – ACL Rolling Review: a centralized reviewing service for top-tier *ACL conferences
Teaching and supervision
Teaching activities
- Adjunct professor – Computational linguistics beyond “standard” language varieties (Ph.D.), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy (2024)
- Guest lecturer – Computational linguistics and language-based interaction (M.Sc.), University of Trento, Italy (2024)
- Guest lecturer – Applied natural language processing (M.Sc.), University of Trento, Italy (2024)
- Guest lecturer – Applied natural language processing (M.Sc.), University of Trento, Italy (2023)
- Teaching tutor – Intro to computer science and programming (B.Sc.), University of Trento, Italy (2017–2019)
- Teaching tutor – Computer programming I (B.Sc.), University of Trento, Italy (2016–2017)
Supervision and mentoring
- Gaudenzia Genoni – M.Sc. in Data Science, University of Trento, Italy (2024–2025)
- Agnese Daffara – M.A. in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Pavia, Italy (2023–2024)
- Parvaneh Soleimany – M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence, University of Bologna, Italy (2023–2024)
- Giovanni Valer – B.Sc. in Information Engineering, University of Trento, Italy (2022–2023)
- Benedetta Testa – M.A. in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. University of Pavia, Italy (2021–2022)
- Others: mentoring committee, ACL Student Research Workshop, co-located with ACL (2022)
Awards and grants
- Trentino Young Researchers for Innovation Award (Wired article) – Provincia Autonoma di Trento (2024)
- Full meeting grant – European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST), CA21167 general meeting (2023)
- Outstanding paper award (Paper) – Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), EACL 2021 demo track (2021)
- Travel and accomodation grant – Facebook AI Research (FAIR), EurNLP 2019 summit (2019)
- Merit prize for distinguished graduates – University of Trento (2017)