Principal Investigators

Marco Baroni

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

Gemma Boleda Torrent

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

Thomas Brochhagen

Brochhagen, Thomas
Tenure-track professor, studies emergence and change of patterns in natural and artificial languages.

Post-docs

Carmen Saldana Gascon

Saldana Gascon, Carmen
Studying the impact of human cognition on cross-linguistic regularities in morphology and their evolution over time.

Corentin Kervadec

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

Francesca Franzon

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

Germán Kruszewski

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

Iria de Dios Flores

de Dios Flores, Iria
Studying cognitive and computational science of language and, more specifically, in understanding and leveraging the linguistic capabilities of artificial language models.

Iuri Macocco

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.

PhD Students

Emily Cheng

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

Eleonora Gualdoni

Gualdoni, Eleonora
Studying referential language, language & vision.

Jeanne Bruneau–Bongard

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.

Matéo Mahaut

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

Marta Garcia Casado

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

Nathanaël Carraz Rakotonirina

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

Yulia Yakubenkova

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

Lab Technicians

PAOLA GONZALEZ TRIANA

GONZALEZ TRIANA, PAOLA
Assisting in data collection and processing.

Visiting Researchers

  • Beatrix Nielsen
    Visiting COLT September 2024 - January 2025. Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark
  • Carmen Amo Alonso
    Visiting COLT April 2024. AI Center, ETH Zurich
  • Andrea Santilli
    Visiting COLT September 2023 - January 2024. GLADIA, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
  • Daniela Mihai
    Visiting COLT October 2023 - December 2024. University of Southampton, United Kingdom
  • Zaninello, Andrea
    Visiting COLT June 2023 - January 2024. University of Bolzano and Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento, Italy.
  • Øvrelid, Lilja
    Visiting COLT September 2022 - June 2023. Language Technology Group (LTG) at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo (UiO), Norway.
  • Di Natale, Anna ​​​
    Visiting COLT January-March 2023. Section for Science of Complex Systems, CeMSIIS, Medical University of Vienna.
  • Jeanne, Bruneau-Bongard
    Master student September-February 2023 under the supervision of Thomas Brochhagen.
  • Amidei, Jacopo
    Visiting COLT January-May 2020. School of Computing & Communications, Open University.
  • Bruera, Andrea
    Visiting COLT January-September 2021. Cognitive Science research group, Queen Mary, University of London.
  • Hupkes, Dieuwke
    Visiting COLT March 2020. Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam.
  • Pado, Sebastian
    Visiting COLT February 2020. Institute for Natural Language Processing, Stuttgart University.
  • Pezzelle, Sandro
    Visiting COLT February 2020. Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation, University of Amsterdam.

 

Past Members

  • Jamie Wright
    Lab technician at COLT 2024
  • Weber, Lucas
    PhD student at COLT from 2020 to 2024.
  • Liao, Xixian
    PhD student at COLT from 2020 to 2024.  
  • Dessì, Roberto
    PhD student at COLT from 2020 to 2024.
  • Bolea Centelles, Marina
    PhD student at COLT from 2022 to 2024.
  • Mädebach, Andreas
    Post-doctoral researcher at COLT 2021-2023;
  • Sorodoc, Ionut-Teodor
    PhD student at COLT from 2017 to 2022; moved to researcher at Amazon, Inc.
  • Aina, Laura
    PhD student at COLT from 2017 to 2022; moved to researcher at Amazon, Inc.
  • Melero, Maite
    Senior Researcher at Barcelona Supercomputing Center; COLT member from 2017 to 2021.
  • Bruni, Elia
    Post-doctoral researcher at COLT 2018-2020, moved to Interim Professor of Computational Linguistics at the Institute for Cognitive Science of Osnabrück University.
  • Marín, Rafael
    Chargé de Recherche CNRS; COLT member 2017-2021.
  • Silberer, Carina Helga
    Post-doctoral researcher at COLT 2017-2020, moved to Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics at the IMS, University of Stuttgart.
  • Westera, Matthijs
    Post-doctoral researcher at COLT 2017-2020, moved to Assistant Professor in Humanities and AI at LUCL, University of Leiden.
  • Gulordava, Kristina
    Post-doctoral researcher at COLT 2018-2019, moved to researcher at Shift Technology, France.