
I am a postdoc at the University of Copenhagen. I completed my PhD in NLP at the University of Edinburgh, supervised by Michael Rovatsos. My PhD was supported by a Bloomberg Data Science PhD Fellowship. I spent time at Bloomberg as a research intern working on legal language modeling, and as a research engineer working on natural language understanding and agentic systems.
I am interested in understanding language models and their behavior when faced with non-standard language and registers like legal language.
Before all that, I completed a master’s of research in computer science from Paris Dauphine and École des mines de Paris, during which I was a research assistant advised by Alexis Tsoukias in the LAMSADE lab. I was born and grew up in Nice, France.
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News
- October 2026: Started my postdoc at the University of Copenhagen
- July 2026: I will be a panelist at the AI for Law workshop at ICML.
- June 2026: I have been awarded my PhD degree!
- January 2026: I passed my viva with minor corrections. Thanks to the examiners: Simone Teufel, Nikos Aletras and Adam Lopez.
- November 2025: Started working at Bloomberg AI in London
- August 2025: Our paper LexTime: A Benchmark for Temporal Ordering of Legal Events, has been accepted at EMNLP Findings. We will also present it at the XTempLLMs workshop hosted at COLM.
- May 2025: Our paper on Faithfulness and Content Selection in Summarisation has been accepted at ICAIL
- January 2025: Are we done with MMLU?, our paper presenting MMLU-Redux will be at NAACL 2025
- October 2024: Our paper Information Extraction for Planning Court Cases was accepted to NLLP 2024 (hosted at EMNLP)
- April 2024: Consider attending/submitting to BAIPsy 2024, a student workshop that aims to faciliate discussion and exchange between Artificial Intelligence and Psychology researchers.
- From May to August 2024, I will be interning at Bloomberg (CTO office) in New York, focusing on information extraction in the legal domain.
- November 27th 2023, NYC, I will be co-organizing a workshop on NLPxFinance at the 4th ACM Conference on AI in Finance - NLP and Network Analysis in Financial Applications. Deadline for submission coming soon, November 10th!
- October 2023, 2 papers accepted at the NLLP workshop, EMNLP 2023! I will present them on December, 7th in Singapore
- October 2023, I will present my work at the Women in HPC workshop hosted at SC2023, Denver, CO
- July 2023, I’m very happy to announce that I received the Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship
- July 2023, Our paper presenting a new information extraction pipeline for legal documents was published in ACL Findings
- June 2023, I received the Best Doctoral Consortium Paper Award at ICAIL 2023