About
I am Ignacio Iacobacci, an NLP Expert and a member of the ELLIS Society, currently working at ELM Europe. I’m also in charge of the “Textual Data Analysis” course at Unitelma Sapienza. I worked as a Senior Researcher and Team Leader at the London Speech and Language team at Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab for six years. I was research fellow and received my PhD. in Computer Science from Sapienza University in Rome (Italy), as a member of two ERC-funded projects (MultiJEDI and MOUSSE). I also hold a MSc. in Computer Science from University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). I interned at the YouTube Content ID in Google (Zurich, Switzerland). Prior to my PhD, I worked 10 years as a software engineer, including 4 years as a machine learning / NLP specialist.
Research
My current research interests are in dialogue systems and natural language understanding, question answering and commonsense reasoning, Large Language Models (LLMs) for automatic code understanding and generation, and LLMs-based autonomous agents. During my PhD my main field of study was about neural-grounded distributional models, such as word and sense embeddings, and word sense disambiguation.
Lastest News
Mar 2025 Invited to be external collaborator of the Intelligent Information Mining
group.
Feb 2025 I’ve been nominated to join ELLIS Society (European Laboratory for Learning Intelligence Systems) as a member.🎉
Feb 2025 Attended LEAP 2025 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦.
Jan 2025 “Code-Optimise: Self-Generated Preference Data for Correctness and Efficiency” authored by Leonidas Gee, Milan Gritta, Gerasimos Lampouras, Ignacio Iacobacci has been accepted at Findings of NAACL 2025 (Findings)
Jan 2025: I have been appointed teacher of “Textual Data Analysis” course at Unitelma Sapienza 🇮🇹
Dec 2024: First time acting as Senior Area Chair at ACL 2025 🎉
Nov 2024: Joined ELM Europe
as Senior NLP Researcher.
Nov 2022: Invited to participate on as Speaker at Cambridge Language Technology Lab Seminars, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
July 2022: PanGu-Coder: Program Synthesis with Function-Level Language Modeling Technical Report published.
June 2022: Invited to participate as Speaker on the 1st Cardiff NLP Summer Workshop, University of Cardiff
, Cardiff, Wales, UK
Jan 2021: Participated for the first time at the UCL IXN Programme.
Nov 2020: Became a member of the Editorial Board of the “Language Resources and Evaluation” journal.
Feb 2019: Defended my PhD. Thesis “Neural-grounded Semantic Representations and Word Sense Disambiguation: A Mutually Beneficial Relationship”
Sep 2018: Moved to London, UK 🇬🇧 and joined Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab
as NLP Researcher.