Francielle Vargas
Postdoctoral Researcher at São Paulo State University & Idiap Research Institute
São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
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Top SchoolFrancielle Vargas is a postdoctoral researcher and NLP specialist with a Ph.D. in Computer Science and nine years of experience focused on language model interpretability, fairness, and explainable AI. She has an award-winning Ph.D. thesis and a strong publication record in top-tier venues, translating research into international, interdisciplinary projects that address hate speech and misinformation in underrepresented Global South communities. Her recent work includes a Google LARA PhD Fellowship on interpretability and fairness for automated fact-checking and hate speech detection in low-resource languages and visiting research roles at USC and Idiap. Comfortable bridging academia and applied research, she combines deep technical expertise in neural models with a commitment to societal impact and practical deployment in multilingual contexts.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Computational Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Computational Mathematics at University of São Paulo (USP)
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (3)
natural-language-processing9
machine-learning9
text-classification9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
franciellevargas/PRO
Apr 2018 - Aug 2022
Contributions:4 releases, 20 commits, 50 pushes in 4 years 4 months
franciellevargas/MOL
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1 release, 46 commits, 83 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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