About me

I'm a Ph.D. student in Artificial Intelligence in the National Ph.D. Program in Artificial Intelligence for Society at the University of Pisa. My research interests include detecting and analyzing online discussions to identify the unfolding of polluted environments, such as echo chambers. Her work includes the simulation of the effects of information pollution through Large Language Models.

I'm also a member of the KDD Lab, a joint initiative of ISTI-CNR and the University of Pisa.

Research interests

  • Large Language Models

    Large Language Models applied to opinion dynamics.

  • Social Network Analysis

    Data-driven analyses of social network interaction through Network Science and Natural Language Processing.

Resume

Education

  1. University of Pisa

    2023 — ongoing

    PhD student in Artificial Intelligence for Society. The focus of the PhD is on LLMs as proxies to simulate real discussion in Online Social Networks, with the aim of understanding polluted realities in online spaces.

  2. University of Pisa

    2020 — 2022

    Master's Degree in Digital Humanities.

  3. University of Pisa

    2016 — 2020

    Bachelor Degree in Digital Humanities.

Experience

  1. Tutor

    February 2024 - ongoing

    Currently working as tutor for the Social Network Analysis course (University of Pisa).

  2. Tutor

    February 2022 - June 2022

    I worked as tutor for two Digital Humanities courses, Geografia Culturale and Laboratorio di Scrittura

  3. Coding Girls tutor

    March 2022 — July 2022

    Coding Girls is an initiative promoted by Fondazione Mondo Digitale and the United States Embassy in Italy that aims to fight the inequalities in STEM field through several initiatives in middle and high schools. As a tutor, I worked with high school students to help them the development of a mobile app promoting trust in science and environmental protection.

  4. Bachelor's Degree internship

    July 2019 — November 2019

    During my Bachelor Degree I did a curricular intership at ILC-CNR in Pisa. I worked on the application of classification models on textual data for the automatic recognition of different genres.