Projects

Funded research projects I lead (from 2023 onwards).

Current 4

KALM 2024 – 2027

Knowledge-Aware Language Models

Integrating structured and unstructured knowledge into neural language representations for more interpretable, robust and data-efficient NLP.

CNPq · Productivity Grant

KENSI 2024 – 2027

Knowledge-Enhanced NLP for Social Impact

Knowledge-enhanced NLP for socially relevant problems (misinformation, harmful content, health communication), with a focus on Brazilian Portuguese.

FAPERJ · Young Women Researchers in Rio de Janeiro

XMuR 2026 – 2027

eXplainable MUltilingual Reasoning

Evaluating and explaining how LLMs reason across languages, and why they process equivalent problems differently.

KUNUMI Labs

Past 3

AIDA 2024 – 2026

AI for Financial Document Analysis

NLP and LLM methods to extract, interpret and summarize information from financial documents, focused on the Brazilian market.

CNPq · IAIA

LENS 2023 – 2026

Low-Resource ML for Social Impact

Machine learning under scarce data, low compute and underrepresented languages, applied to health, safety and social inclusion.

FAPERJ · Young Scientist from Rio de Janeiro