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Donya Rooein

Postdoctoral Fellow
Bocconi University
donyarooein (at) unibocconi.it


About Me

I am currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Computer Science at Bocconi University. I am fortunate to work with Prof. Dirk Hovy at Milan Natural Language Processing Group (MilaNLP Lab). I joined MilaNLP LAB for INTERGRATOR project to study demographic factors to language processing systems and their role of them in the future of Conversational AI.

I received my Ph.D. in Information Technology Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Barbara Pernici and Prof. Paolo Paolini. I was also a research visitor at ETH Zurich at my last year of PhD.

My Ph.D. thesis was “A Scalable, Reconfigurable, and Adaptive Framework for Chatbots in Education”. During My Ph.D., I focused on adaptive conversational agents; in particular, I designed and developed highly configurable chatbots in education to support various actors with different demographics.

My research focuses on the intersection of NLP and human-computer interaction, with a special emphasis on educational applications. My research interests include conversational AI, adaptive learning systems, intelligent tutoring systems, and human-AI collaboration in educational settings.

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