Welcome!

I am a Professor in the Computing Sciences Department of Bocconi University in Milan, where I lead the MilaNLP lab together with Debora Nozza. I am also the scientific director of the Data and Marketing Insights research unit. Previously, I was CS faculty at the University of Copenhagen, got a PhD from USC’s Information Sciences Institute, and a master’s degree in linguistics from Marburg University, Germany.

I am interested in the interaction between language, society, and machine learning, or what computers can tell us about language and what language can tell us about society. I am also interested in ethical questions of bias and algorithmic fairness in machine learning.

I have authored over 150 articles on these topics, including 3 best and one outstanding paper awards, and have published two textbooks on text processing in Python for social scientists.

I co-founded and organized several workshops (on computational social science, and ethics in NLP), and I was a local organizer for the EMNLP 2017 conference. I was awarded an ERC Starting Grant project 2020 for research on demographic bias in NLP.

Outside of work, I enjoy cooking, leather-crafting, and picking up heavy things to put them back down.