Francesco Salvi

Hi there! I am a researcher at EPFL, working at dlab with Robert West. I hold a MSc in Computational Science from EPFL and a BSc in Physics from UniBo. Previously, I was also a Visiting Fellow at FBK and I worked as an intern for 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, Natural Language Processing, Social Computing.

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