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🎓 Short Intro: Hello there! I’m a PhD Researcher, supervised by Dr. Anders Søgaard, in the CoAStaL Lab at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen. Additionally, I am involved with the Centre of Philosophy of AI, exploring the societal and ethical dimensions of AI.

🧠 Research Interests: My primary research interest lies in building evaluation frameworks that bridge the gap between technical AI capabilities and human-centric needs. This involves studying the cognitive abilities and humanlike behaviors of AI systems to make their capabilities interpretable and useful for diverse stakeholders, including developers, policymakers, and end-users. I integrate insights from AI, Machine Learning, Cognitive Science, Linguistics, and Philosophy to advance this goal.

👥 Volunteering: I’m also a community lead at Cohere for AI (C4AI), where I host talks, socials, and meetups to foster open-source research and collaborations in AI, emphasizing ethical and accessible approaches.

🚶🏽‍♀️‍➡️ Hobbies: When I’m not immersed in research, I enjoy reading about economics, business and finance.

Updates

Super happy to announce that our paper titled “Investigating the role of modality and training objective on representational alignment between transformers and the brain” was accepted to the Proceedings Track Unireps Workshop at NeurIPS 2024! Read the paper here. Coming out soon in PMLR!

My work with co-author Constanza Fierro, titled “Defining Knowledge: Bridging Epistemology and Large Language Models” was accepted to EMNLP Main Conference, 2024! Read the paper here

The first work of my PhD- “From Words to Worlds: Compositionality for Cognitive Architectures” - was accepted to the LLMs & Cognition workshop at International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2024, Vienna. Read the paper here

Our abstract for an oral presentation titled “The Completeness Problem: Beyond Human Metrics in Assessing Abilities of Cognitive Systems” was accepted to the International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience (ACAIN) 2024.