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.

2023
- Talk at the ISCA SIGSLT Seminars - Towards Augmented Speech Translation: Joint Speech Translation and Named Entity Recognition
2019
- Deep dive in Spark code generation
2017
- Silhouette: Birth of a new Apache Spark ML algorithm

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