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Currently, I am an assistant professor at the Department of Advanced Computing Sciences (DACS) and at Maastricht Law+Tech Lab (Faculty of Law), at Maastricht University (UM) in the Netherlands. My current work/research lies in the area of Social Computing and includes computational social media modeling, dialogue systems (conversational agents) and information retrieval, topic detection and tracking from text data and pattern discovery from multimodal data sources. More specifically, I am interested into using Large Language Models (like chatGPT) in a controlled way and build useful applications that have added value for all relevant stakeholders.

Current roles/contributions:

• Member of the research area Cognitive Systems (at DACS/UM)
• Member of the Maastricht Law and Tech Lab
• PI for the EU project VOXReality
• Co-organizer of the Natural Legal Language Processing (NLLP) Workshop 
• Technical expert for E-enforcement academy project (EU CPC Network)
• Coordinator of MaastrichtNLP (MNLP), a reading group for NLP for the whole UM community
• Member of the I-research domain of Maastricht University
• Member of the Open Science Community Maastricht

Fun fact: You can find a guide to my name here.

News

• Oct/2024: I will be presenting at the following 4 events:
  11/Oct: “Insights from the Digital Services Act Transparency Database: Understanding Content Moderation on Online Platforms” (Maastricht, REKA Workshop on Countering Hybrid Threats While Protecting Digital Rights)
  
  14-16/Oct: “Detection of product safety issues based on consumers’ online reviews” (Brussels,International Product Safety Week, IPSW 2024, organized by EC) 
  
  17-19/Oct: “A computer science perspective on AI liability” (Maastricht, “The New Product Liability Directive: Doctrinal, Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approaches”)
  
  25/Oct: “Automated Transparency: A Legal and Empirical Analysis of the Digital Services Act Transparency Database” (online, DSA Transparency Database workshop organized by EC)
  
  
• Sep/2024: DACS students looking for a thesis topic can have a look on Canvas (“Thesis Topics”) and/or check here