Michele Cafagna
NLP Data Scientist @Okra.ai

Leiden, The Netherlands
I’m Michele [miˈkɛːle], NLP R&D Scientist at Okra.ai,
I’m work in Medical NLP. however, my interests lie at the intersection of Computer Vision, Natural Language, Cognitive Sciences, and XAI,
I’ve received my Phd from the Institute of Linguistics & Language Technology at the University of Malta, 🇲🇹, supervised by Prof. Albert Gatt and co-supervised by Prof. Kees van Deemter. Here I was a Marie Curie PhD Fellow and Early Stage Researcher in the NL4XAI Project During my Phd, I worked as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Utrecht, 🇳🇱 focusing on Multimodal Grounding and interning at the 🍊Orange Innovations Labs, Lannion, 🇫🇷.
Previously, I was Machine Learning Research Scientist at Aptus.AI, a RegTech startup based in Pisa, 🇮🇹. I earned my Master’s in Computer Science and AI, at the University of Pisa 🇮🇹, with a thesis project in NLG carried out as a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Language and Cognition of the University of Groeningen (CLCG), 🇳🇱 . I’ve also collaborated with the ItaliaNLP Lab at the Institute of Linguistics of the National Research Center (ILC-CNR) based in Pisa, 🇮🇹.