I am a postdoctoral researcher in Aalto University in Espoo, Finland. I work on adapting large language models for personalized learning and human-robot interaction.

I obtained my PhD in 2022 from Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, Portugal under the supervision of André Martins and Vlad Niculae, where I researched modeling the structure of language with deep neural networks. During my master studies, I worked on fact-checking and question answering, supervised by Preslav Nakov. Before joining academia, I worked in industry as a software developer.

News

• April 2025. I am starting a new postdoc position in the Department of Computer Science in Aalto University, where I will work on large language models for personalized learning.

• March 2025. Our paper Pedestrian Vision Language Model for Intentions Prediction was accepted for publication in the IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems.

• March 2025. I presented our paper Injecting Conflict Situations in Autonomous Driving Simulation using CARLA at the Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2025).

• Our Workshop on Safe and Trustworthy Autonomous Driving was accepted to IEEE IV 2025.