Summary
Alejandrina Cristia is a Research Director at CNRS and leader of an interdisciplinary team at ENS-Ulm with over a decade of experience designing and delivering large-scale, multidisciplinary research programs on language acquisition. She brings together cognitive science, humanities, machine learning, and software development to study how children across cultures learn language, and has spearheaded a unique consortium enabling lawful, ethical sharing of thousands of hours of child-centered audio data. Her work has produced state-of-the-art speech technology models and practical research infrastructures that bridge academic rigor and real-world application. In addition to leading research, she advises institutions on research design and interpretation and has coached professionals seeking impactful, balanced careers. Trained with a PhD in Linguistics from Purdue and an Habilitation from ENS, she combines deep theoretical grounding with a demonstrated talent for building collaborative, cross-disciplinary ecosystems.
10 years of coding experience
Habilitation à diriger des recherches Cognitive Science, Habilitation à diriger des recherches Cognitive Science at Ecole normale supérieure
Profesorado Letras, Profesorado Letras at Universidad Nacional de Rosario
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Linguistics at Purdue University
Spanish, French, English, Italian