Assistant Professor at Data and Artificial Intelligence Initiative, Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, University of Chile. I am a researcher in Natural Language Processing, with interests in interpretability, fairness, safety and alignment. My research aims to advance trustworthy language models for harmful speech and high-stakes applications and underrepresented communities.

I hold a Ph.D. and an M.Sc. in Natural Language Processing, both in Computer Science and Computational Mathematics from the University of São Paulo. I have an interdisciplinary academic background in computer science, linguistics, and computational mathematics. During my doctoral studies, I was a visiting researcher at the University of Southern California, and an invited speaker at the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. My work has received national and international recognition, including the Google Latin America Research Award, the Maria Carolina Monard Award for the Best Thesis in Artificial Intelligence, the PROPOR International Best Thesis Award in Natural Language Processing, and the Trevisan Prize for Students “AI for Good,” awarded by the Computer Science Department of Bocconi University and EDGE.

I actively contribute to the international artificial intelligence and natural language processing research community, serving as a program committee member and area chair for venues such as ACL, NeurIPS, IJCNN, AAAI. I have also co-organized the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms, and Explainable Deep Neural Networks for Responsible AI, as well as shared tasks on hate speech detection [i] [ii].