Michele Cafagna
Msida, Malta
I’m Michele [miˈkɛːle], third-year Marie Curie PhD Fellow at the Institute of Linguistics & Language Technology at the University of Malta, 🇲🇹. My primary interests lie at the intersection of Computer Vision, Natural Language, Cognitive Sciences, and XAI.
I’m supervised by Prof. Albert Gatt and co-supervised by Prof. Kees van Deemter. I’m an Early Stage Researcher in the NL4XAI Project, which is part of the project Horizon2020 funded by the EU. I’ve been a Visiting Researcher at the University of Utrecht,🇳🇱 working on Multimodal Grounding and interning at the 🍊Orange Innovations Labs, Lannion, 🇫🇷.
Previously, I was a Machine Learning Research Scientist at Aptus.AI, a RegTech startup based in Pisa, 🇮🇹. I’ve been a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Language and Cognition of the University of Groeningen (CLCG), 🇳🇱 where I worked on my Master Thesis project on Natural Language Generation, I’ve also collaborated with the ItaliaNLP Lab at the Institute of Linguistics of the National Research Center (ILC-CNR) based in Pisa, 🇮🇹.