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.

I am interested in what computers can tell us about language and what language can tell us about society. That includes 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), was a local organizer for EMNLP 2017 and general chair for EMNLP 2025. 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.