News
June 2026
I am co-organizing the BlackboxNLP Workshop at EMNLP 2026! Participate in our reproducibility challenge! 🔍
June 2026
I worked with talented mentees as part of the Spring'26 SPAR Program on the project "Monitoring and Attributing Implicit Personalization in Conversational Agents, and will be a mentor for the CBAI Summer Fellowship as well! 🌱
April 2026
My PhD thesis on Actionable Interpretability for Machine Translation was awarded the 2025 Best Dissertation Award by the European Association for Machine Translation! Excited to present my work in Tilburg in June 🏆
January 2026
I started a postdoctoral position at Northeastern University as a member of the BauLab. Very excited to work with the NDIF team on building cutting-edge tools for interpretability research! 🔍
December 2025
I graduated cum laude with my PhD in Natural Language Processing from the University of Groningen! 🎓 My thesis on Actionable Interpretability for Machine Translation is now available online. Huge thanks to my supervisors Arianna Bisazza, Malvina Nissim and Grzegorz Chrupała for their support during these years.
February 2025
I am visiting the IRT Saint-Exupéry in Toulouse, France, to collaborate on an interpretability project with the DEEL team.
May 2023
I was awarded two research grants from the Imminent Research Center and the Amsterdam eScience Center to fund the development of the Inseq library and my future research on machine translation.
February 2023
Inseq, our open-source toolkit for post-hoc interpretability of generative language models, is now available on Github! 🐛 We also have a demo paper with some usage examples.
July to Sep, 2022
Spent the summer at Amazon AWS New York working as an Applied Scientist Intern with the Amazon Translate team, working with Georgiana Dinu, Maria Nădejde, Xing Niu and Benjamin Hsu.
May 23-30, 2022
Hosted Michael Carl at the University of Groningen, with talks about translation processes and interpretability for machine translation.
Sep 1, 2021
Starting a PhD in interpretable neural machine translation at the worderful GroNLP group under the supervision of Arianna Bisazza, Malvina Nissim and Grzegorz Chrupała, as a part of the NWO-funded consortium InDeep: Interpreting Deep Learning Models for Text and Sound.
Jul 31, 2021
Last day of work at Aindo. In the last months I worked on structured prediction from clinical reports, few-shot cross-lingual transfer for neural QA models, GNN for molecular properties prediction, neural recommender systems and sketch-to-image generation with GANs.
Jul 23, 2021
Participated in the HuggingFace JAX/Flax Community Week building the first CLIP image-text model for Italian (demo here) and the first T5 seq2seq model pre-trained on Italian. I also cleaned the largest available Italian corpus to date, the Italian split of mc4 (full size after cleaning ~103M docs, 41B words, 215Gb), making it available on the HuggingFace Hub.
Jan 1, 2021
Started working full-time as ML research scientist for Aindo.
Dec 11, 2020
Graduated cum laude from the Data Science MSc at the University of Trieste and SISSA with my thesis Interpreting Neural Langauge Models for Linguistic Complexity Assessment, under the supervision of Felice dell'Orletta and Davide Crepaldi.
Oct 19, 2020
Developed and open-sourced LambdaBert, a BERT implementation based on lambda layers instead of self-attention. Viral on Made with ML.
Sep 28, 2020
Attended the "Deep Learning Theories in Neuroscience" session at the Oxford Virtual Autumn School in Neuroscience.
May 8, 2020
Organizing the AI, Stats & COVID-19 event with AI2S, with more than 100 participants from around the world.
Mar 22, 2020
Officially founded AI2S, the first AI student society in Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
Mar to Jun, 2020
Main developer for the Covid-19 Semantic Browser, a joint project by AILC and Area Science Park, covered in the news by many sources, including the NLP Newsletter by Sebastian Ruder and the Anthony Goldbloom talk at the Stanford HAI conference on COVID-19 and AI
Feb 13, 2020
Presented the "Hey Siri, what's computational linguistics" interactive talk at SISSA Student Day 2020.
Feb 10-14, 2020
Attended the course "Eye-tracking Methods for Cognitive Science" by Elizabeth Schotter at SISSA.
Sep to Dec, 2019
Internship at the ItaliaNLP Lab of the Institute for Computational Linguistics ILC-CNR in Pisa. Worked under the supervision of Felice Dell'Orletta on linguistic complexity assessment with neural language models.