Francesco Salvi
salvi[dot]fnc[at]gmail[dot]com
Hi there! I am a last-year MSc student at EPFL, working at dlab with Robert West. Currently, I am also a Visiting Fellow at FBK, where I am writing my Thesis with Riccardo Gallotti. Before EPFL, I completed a BSc in Physics at UniBo.
My research broadly focuses on connecting computational methods and machine learning with society, analyzing large-scale digital social systems to provide insights on human behavior and social dynamics. I am particularly interested in political phenomena such as misinformation and polarization.
Keywords: Computational Social Science, Natural Language Processing, Network Science, Complex Systems.
Outside of work, I enjoy hiking, playing board games, and being an election forecasting geek.
Selected Publications
- On the Conversational Persuasiveness of Large Language Models: A Randomized Controlled TrialarXiv preprint, Mar 2024
- MEDITRON-70B: Scaling Medical Pretraining for Large Language ModelsarXiv preprint, Nov 2023
- Studying Lobby Influence in the European ParliamentAnnual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2024)