Francesco Salvi

Hi there! I am a first-year PhD student in Computer Science at Princeton University, advised by Manoel Horta Ribeiro. I am affiliated with Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) and supported by the Gordon Wu Fellowship.

Previously, I received my MSc at EPFL’s DLAB, working with Robert West, and my BSc in Physics at the University of Bologna. During my studies, I also spent some time as a Visiting Fellow at FBK and interning at Bain & Company and DemoSquare.

My research broadly focuses on connecting computational methods and machine learning with society, analyzing the societal impacts of LLMs and drawing insights on human behavior. I am particularly interested in the persuasive capabilities of frontier models and in political phenomena such as online polarization and misinformation.

Keywords: Computational Social Science, Social Computing, Natural Language Processing, Persuasion.

Outside of work, I enjoy hiking, playing board games, and being a psephology geek.