bio
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Pietro Lesci is a PhD student in Natural Language Processing at the University of Cambridge, working with Prof Andreas Vlachos. His research explores the causal effects of training choices on language models, focusing on memorisation, shortcut learning, and tokenisation. His work has been presented at major NLP conferences like ACL, NAACL, and EMNLP. He received a Best Paper Award at ACL 2024 and funding from the Translated Imminent Research Grant for his research contributions. Pietro’s experience spans academia and industry, including roles at Amazon AWS AI Labs, Bain & Company, and Bocconi University. He holds an MSc in Economic and Social Sciences from Bocconi University.