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Current Posdoc, PhD and MSc students

  • Daniel Taborda is doing a PhD in Medicine on patient simulation with multimodal models for training students of medicine for clinical conversational skills in Clinica I and II of the Hospital de Clínicas in Córdoba.
  • Sofía Martinelli is doing an MSc on multicultural benchmarks for large language models,
  • Guido Ivetta is doing a PhD in Computer Science on socio cultural evaluation of large multimodal models.
  • Julian Eisenschlos is doing a PhD in Computer Science on representing structured knowledge in large multimodal models.
  • Hernán Maina is doing a PhD in Computer Science on improving large multimodal models for answering questions to visually impaired people.


Alumni

  • Valentín Basel did his PhD on learning to program using open hardware and open software
  • Marcos Javier Gómez did his PhD student working on applying natural language acquisition concepts to learning to program
  • Lucia González did her MSc thesis on social biases in language models at FAMAF-UNC, starting in 2022 (co-supervised with Laura Alonso Alemany)
  • Francisco Marsiglione completed his MSc thesis on keyword extraction in educational forum messages at FAMAF-UNC in 2023 (co-supervised with Emilia Echeveste)
  • Guido Iveta completed his MSc thesis on artificial intelligence in agroecological gardens at FAMAF-UNC in 2022. He is currently collaborating with the PROCODAS project at the Ministry of Science and Technology
  • Mariano Piatti completed his MSc thesis on forward and backward looking speech acts in educational forums at FAMAF-UNC in 2021. He is currently an engineer at Microsoft in Canada
  • Tomás Vadora completed his MSc thesis on questions under discussion in visual dialogue at FAMAF-UNC in 2020 (co-supervised with Mauricio Mazuecos). He is currently the CTO of Splight
  • Marco Moresi did his MSc student working on automatic generation of formative feedback for programming exercises
  • Alki Collias did his MSc student working on modeling student time response in tutoring dialogue
  • Ignacio Queralt was a MSc student working on Generation of Plural Referring Expressions
  • Romina Altamirano did her PhD Thesis working on Generation of Referring Expressions and Applications
  • Santiago Avalos did his MSc Thesis working on natural language generation for pedestrian navigation for the GRUVE Challenge
  • Andrés Luna did his MSc Thesis about generation of natural language for a virtual assistant in a virtual fair
  • Juan Ignacio Navarro did his MSc Thesis working on Identifying leaders by their writing style in collaboration with IBM.
  • Nicolás Bertoa did his MSc Thesis on Computer Science working on Using Natural Language Techniques for Building Flexible Game Tutorials
  • Boris Godin is a MSc Student working on Building Collaborative Bots using planning.
  • Martín Villalba did an Internship funded by IBM on the project [publications]
  • David Nicolás Racca did his MSc Thesis working on Grounding Strategies for Giving Instructions in Virtual Environments
  • Sasha Luccioni got her MSc in Cognitive Science from the École normale supérieure de Paris. Her Masters in Science thesis was "Overspecified References: An Experiment on Lexical Acquisition in Virtual Environments" [contact Alexandra to get a pdf].

Graduate Teaching

  • [2011] Natural Language Generation (invited lecture at FaMAF, the lecturer was Pablo Duboue)
  • [2010] Natural Language Generation and applications (1 week course at ELIC School, together with Carlos Areces), Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2010
  • [2010-2011] Artificial Ingelligence, lecturer (together with Laura Alonso Alemany) of the full-semester course at FaMAF
  • [2007-2010] Dialogue and Discourse, teaching assistant (the lecturer was Patrick Blackburn) at INRIA Nancy Grand Est, France

Undergraduate teaching

  • [2010-2013] Lecturer of Introduction to Algorithms at FaMAF
  • [2003-2004] Teaching assistant at Artificial Intelligence and Theoretical Foundations of Computer Science at Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Neuquén, Argentina