I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in the MilaNLP Lab at Bocconi University and an Associate Member of Nuffield College at the University of Oxford.

I work at the intersection of computation, language, and society.

In my current research, I focus on evaluating and improving the safety of large language models (LLMs), as well as studying their societal impacts.

News

  • Feb 2025: I won a UK AISI Grant to study the distortive effects of AI writing assistance.
  • Dec 2024: Our PRISM alignment dataset won Best Paper (D&B) at NeurIPS 2024 🏆
  • Dec 2024: I was elected Associate Member of Nuffield College at the University of Oxford.
  • Nov 2024: I joined an EU JRC expert panel to consult on the implementation of the EU AI Act.
  • Aug 2024: Our work on LLM values and opinions won Outstanding Paper at ACL 2024 🏆
  • Jun 2024: I am at NAACL 2024 in Mexico City to present XSTest and organise WOAH.
  • Jan 2024: I published SafetyPrompts.com, a living catalogue of open datasets for LLM safety.
  • Jul 2023: The Sexism Detection Task we organised won Best Paper at SemEval 2023 🏆
  • Jun 2023: I joined Dirk Hovy's MilaNLP Lab as a postdoctoral researcher.
  • May 2023: I defended my PhD thesis in Oxford, assessed by Scott Hale and Maarten Sap.
  • May 2023: The HateCheck project that I led won the Stanford AI Audit Challenge 🏆
  • Mar 2023: My work on OpenAI's red team for GPT-4 was covered by various media outlets.
  • Mar 2023: The AI start-up Rewire that I co-founded in 2021 was acquired by ActiveFence.
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Research

I am very excited about large language models (LLMs). This is why I work on improving their safety and understanding their societal impacts. For my recent work in this area, I won an Outstanding Paper Award at ACL and a Best Paper Award at NeurIPS D&B.

LLMs are now being used globally by hundreds of millions of people. I am particularly interested in the risks created by this widespread adoption, and how we can mitigate them.

For a complete record of my publications, please visit my Google Scholar profile.

Supervision

If you are a student at Bocconi or Oxford, and you are interested in working together on a topic related to my research, I am happy to discuss potential thesis supervision. Just get in touch :)

Press

I enjoy talking about my work, and I have been fortunate to have it featured across many different media outlets. Here are a few examples:

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