News & Updates
- 2025–present 🚀 Research contributions to Amazon Quick — an agentic AI assistant for work.
- 2024 🚀 Research contributions to Amazon Q — an enterprise conversational AI assistant.
- Sep 2023 📣 Program Co-Chair of the 1st International Workshop on Human-in-the-Loop Applied Machine Learning (HITLAML), University of Luxembourg.
- Aug 2023 📄 Paper Jointly Optimizing Translations and Speech Timing to Improve Isochrony in Automatic Dubbing at Interspeech 2023.
- Sep 2022 📄 Paper Isochrony-Aware Neural Machine Translation for Automatic Dubbing published at InterSpeech 2022.
- Jul 2022 📄 Paper Sockeye 3: Fast Neural Machine Translation with PyTorch released.
- May 2022 📄 Paper Isometric MT: Neural MT for Automatic Dubbing published at ICASSP 2022.
- May 2022 📄 Co-authored the Findings of the IWSLT 2022 Evaluation Campaign.
- May 2022 🧩 Co-organized the Isometric Spoken Language Translation shared task at IWSLT 2022.
- Apr 2022 🎤 Invited talk at University of Luxembourg on multilingual neural machine translation.
- Sep 2021 📄 Paper Machine Translation Verbosity Control for Automatic Dubbing published at ICASSP 2021.
- Aug 2021 🏆 Paper Zero-Shot Neural Machine Translation with Self-Learning Cycle at LoResMT 2021 — best paper award.
- 2021 🤝 Joined the Lacuna Fund Language Technical Advisory Panel.
- Aug 2020 🚀 Started as an Applied Scientist at Amazon AI.
- Apr 2020 🎓 Defended my doctoral dissertation.
- Mar 2020 📄 Paper Low Resource Neural Machine Translation: A Benchmark for Five African Languages released, with code.
- Nov 2019 📄 Paper Controlling the Output Length of Neural Machine Translation at IWSLT 2019.
- Nov 2019 📄 Paper Adapting Multilingual Neural Machine Translation to Unseen Languages at IWSLT 2019.
- Sep 2019 📄 Paper Multilingual Neural Machine Translation for Zero-Resource Languages released.
- Apr 2019 🌐 Started internship as an Applied Scientist at Amazon AI.
- Nov 2018 ✍️ Blog: Neural Machine Translation into Language Varieties and Dialects.
- Oct 2018 📄 Paper Transfer Learning in Multilingual NMT with Dynamic Vocabulary at IWSLT 2018, with code.
- Oct 2018 📄 Paper Adapting Multilingual NMT to Extremely Low Resource Languages at IWSLT 2018.
- Aug 2018 📄 Paper A Comparison of Transformer and Recurrent Neural Networks on Multilingual NMT at COLING 2018.
- Jun 2018 📄 Paper Multilingual Neural Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages published in IJCoL.
- Dec 2017 🏆 Paper Improving Zero-Shot Translation of Low-Resource Languages at IWSLT 2017 — best paper award.
- Dec 2017 📄 Paper FBK’s Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2017 at IWSLT 2017.
- 2015 📄 Paper Using Dominant Sets for Data Association in Multi-Camera Tracking at ICDSC 2015.
- Mar 2015 🎓 Defended my MSc thesis at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.