Activities
Projects and Grants
- Smarterp - a CAI system based on novel direct speech translation that improves real-time interpretation by accurately handling named entities and domain-specific terminology;
- Amazon Research Grant - Bias Mitigation and Gender Neutralization Techniques for Automatic Translation;
- FAIR - provide theoretical and experimental evidence of the advantages of Integrative AI.
- Innovaction - a tool for simultaneous/streaming speech recognition and translation for courses;
- Smurf4EU - an Extreme Scale EuroHPC grant on Jupiter with the goal of creating a Suite of Multimodal Reasoning Foundation Models for Europe;
- Meetween - a project funded by the European Commission with the mission to build the AI-based technology solutions needed to power the next generation of video conferencing platforms;
- DVPS - a project funded by the European Commission with the goal of developing an open-source toolkit to streamline the design, pre-training, fine-tuning, and modality expansion of MMFMs (Multi-Modal Foundation Models);
- LOST - PI of a Large Scale Computing grant that targets the creation of Speech-to-text (S2T) Large Language Models (SpeechLLMs) capable of processing long audio files instead of small chunks, thereby making their usage more suitable for real-world scenarios.
Students Supervision
- Lina Varella Conti - PhD Co-Advisor (2023-present)
- Dhairya Suman - PhD Co-Advisor (2025-present)
- Beomseok Lee - PhD Co-Advisor (2023-2026)
- Dennis Fucci - PhD Mentor (2021-2025)
- Sara Papi - PhD Mentor (2020-2024)
Invited Talks and Panels
Conferences and Workshop
Organization
- 2026
- 2025
- MT Summit - Research Track Chair
Shared Tasks
- 2026
- IWSLT - Chair of the Model Compression Shared Task
- IWSLT - Organizer of the Instruction Following Shared Task
- WMT - Organizer of the Instruction Following Shared Task
- 2025
- IWSLT - Chair of the Model Compression Shared Task
- IWSLT - Organizer of the Instruction Following Shared Task
- WMT - Organizer of the Instruction Following Shared Task
Program Committee
- ACL (Conference) - Area Chair (2024-present); Reviewer (2021-2023)
- EACL (Conference) - Area Chair (2024-present); Reviewer (2021-2023)
- EMNLP (Conference) - Area Chair (2024-present); Reviewer (2021-2023)
- TACL (Journal) - Reviewer (2023-present)
- TASLP (Journal) - Reviewer (2023-present)
- INTERSPEECH (Conference) - Reviewer (2023-present)
- COLM (Conference) - Reviewer (2024-present)
- ICASSP (Conference) - Reviewer (2023-present)
- ASRU (Conference) - Reviewer (2023-present)
- LREC (Conference) - Reviwer (2024-present)
- COLING (Conference) - Reviewer (2024-present)