People

Baroni, Marco
UPF / ICREA Research Professor, studies natural and artificial intelligence, with a focus on language-mediated intelligence.

Boleda Torrent, Gemma
UPF / ICREA Research Professor, studies how people convey meaning through language with quantitative and computational methods.

Brochhagen, Thomas
Tenure-Track Professor, studies language evolution and change in humans, non-human animals, and machines.

de Dios Flores, Iria
Assistant Professor, studies how humans and machines process linguistic structure using psycholinguistic and computational experiments.

Franzon, Francesca
Studying how natural and artificial languages efficiently encode information, using methods from computational linguistics and cognitive science.

Kervadec, Corentin
Studying the ways in which LLMs share information and respond to prompts.

Kruszewski, Germán
Studying how open-ended evolutionary processes can emerge, with applications to artificial intelligence.

Macocco, Iuri
Studying the inner structure and processing of LLMs by means of their geometrical and statistical properties employing tools borrowed from the field of unsupervised and manifold learning.

Cheng, Emily
Studying emergent communication through human experiments and multi-agent modeling.

Bruneau–Bongard, Jeanne
Studying language evolution and cross-linguistic regularity in meaning, investigating how micro-level dynamics of language use and acquisition lead to regular outcomes at the language-level.

Lysova, Iuliia
Studying how syntax and meaning interact, and how this relationship changes over time. I'm particularly interested in comparing how language models represent meaning and linguistic structures with how humans actually understand language.

Mahaut, Matéo
Studying population and diversity in emergent communication, multi-agent Reinforcement learning.

Garcia Casado, Marta
Studying semantic change, more specifically how language models can potentially detect semantic neology.

Graichen, Nora
Studying the relationship between linguistic structure and computational models, with a focus on multilingual and low-resource context.

Rakotonirina, Nathanaël Carraz
Studying how language models process unnatural language.

Saif, Arwa
Studying the internal representations of language models and how they encode linguistic structure

Ürker, Ecesu
Studying semantic change across languages and modeling its dynamics through neural agent simulations.

Yakubenkova, Yulia
Studying the evolution language, specifically vocal plasticity in animal communication and the socio-ecological factors promoting vocal learning.

Zagidov, Kebed
Studying Natural Language Processing for low-resource and endangered languages, focusing on the development of digital infrastructures, corpora, and computational tools to support their documentation, revitalization, and digital representation.

Gonzalez Triana, Paola
Assisting in data collection and processing.