Selected talks

  • (English) Panel "AI agents" at the "20th Internet Governance Forum (IGF 2025) alongside William Carter, Dominique Lazanski and Jayantha Fernando moderated by Jim Pendergast". [video]
  • (English) Tutorial at Khipu 2025 on "Socio Cultural Evaluation of Large Language Models" together with Marcos Gómez, Pietro Palombini, Guido Ivetta, Sofía Martinelli, Sunipa Dev, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran. [webpage]
  • (English) Tutorial at The 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics "Understanding Ethics in NLP Authoring and Reviewing". [webpage]
  • (English) Paper presentation "Bias assessment for experts in discrimination, not in computer science". [video]
  • (Spanish) Seminar at UNAM in México "Social bias and calibration in Large Multimodal Models". Muchas gracias Helena Gomez Adorno por la invitación. [video]
  • (English) Paper presentation "A recipe for annotating grounded clarifications". [video]
  • (Spanish, curated English subtitles) Launch of a the large scale course "Tools for the Classroom to Explore Social Biases and Stereotypes of Artificial Intelligence" for 500 hundred highschool teachers and their thousands of students in Argentina. [webpage] [video]
  • (Spanish) "The Artificial Intelligence Revolution: What Impact Does It Have on Journalism?" at the 12th FOPEA Congress on Multiplatform Journalism. [video] I really enjoyed giving this talk (it is in spanish, unfortunately after FOPEA posted a desconextualized tweet quoting that I have said "ChatGPT does not know what it's like to be argentinean" I was attacked by more than 400 trolls in less than 4 hours who followed me for months. This eventually led me to leave Twitter.)
  • (Spanish) Invited talk "Designing conversational agents in the #MeToo era" at the research group GIFT (Grupo de Investigación de Inteligencia Artificial, Filosofía y Tecnología) of the Universidad de Buenos Aires. [video]
  • (English) "NLP and social bias" at Khipu 2021. June 16 at 5pm UTC-3 with Laura Alonso Alemany, Shakir Mohamed and Emily Denton. [webpage]
  • (English) Presentation for the paper "Grounding as a collaborative process". [video] [paper]
  • (Spanish, my talk starts at 1:03hs in the video) Invited talk "Artificial intelligence and education" at the Latinamerican Conference on Computer Science Education [video]
  • (English)Invited talk "Two types of grounding" at the Machine Learning and Friends Lunch seminar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. [webpage] [video]
  • (English) Spotlight at Khipu 2019. [webpage] [video]

Service and volunteering to the scientific community

  • July 2025. Serving as the Senior Area Chair (SAC) in the area of Human-AI Cooperation for The 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025). [Website]
  • March 2025. Member of the steering committee of Khipu 2025. [website]
  • October 2024. The name of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) was changed to Nations of the Americas. [Announcement]
  • May 2024. I started serving as Chair of the ACL ethics committee with Min Yen-Khan and Karën Fort. [Website]
  • November 2023. I was invited by the UK Prime Minister to the UK AI safety summit in Bletchley Park where I contributed to two working groups: one related to the risks of frontier AI and the other to what the scientific community can contribute to AI regulation. [website]
  • March 2023. Member of the steering committee of Khipu 2023 doing all kinds of work for make this event a success! [website]
  • January 2022. I was elected as chair of the exec board of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL). Thank you Fundación Via Libre for your support! [website]
  • November 2021. I am a candidate for chairing the exec board of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL). Check out my candidacy statement. [website]
  • August 2021. ACL-IJCNLP 2021. Area chair for the "Dialogue and Interactive Systems" track. Social media co-chair. [webpage]
  • July 2021. I joined the advisory committee for the Young Researchers Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS 2021) [webpage]
  • July 2021. I joined the program committee for the Conference on Reasoning in Interaction 2021 (ReInAct) organized by the University of Gothemburg and the SIGSEM of the ACL. [webpage]
  • July 2021. Social media cochair at ACL-IJCNLP 2021. Organizing live tweeting for promoting papers from underrepresented communities! [webpage]
  • June 2021. Reviewing for the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2021). [webpage]
  • May 2021. Reviewing for the 22nd Annual Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. [webpage]
  • May 2021. Happy to be tutorial co-chair for ACL 2022! ACL is celebrating its 60th anniversary! [info]
  • May 2021. Excited to be an Action Editor for the new ACL Rolling Review (ARR) initiative! [webpage]
  • April 2021. Co-chair for the LatinX in AI Social at EACL 2021. [webpage]
  • March 2021. Service at Area ACL-IJCNLP 2021. Area chair for the "Dialogue and Interactive Systems" track. Social media co-chair. Member of the Ethics Committee [webpage]