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Leo Laugier

[Last updated on March 10th, 2025]

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Distributed Information Systems Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL).

Prior to joining EPFL, I spent 3 years as a Ph.D. researcher in the Department of Computer Science, Data and Artificial Intelligence at the Polytechnic Institute of Paris (IP Paris), funded by a Google doctoral fellowship and working on deep learning models for natural language processing. I was supervised by Prof. Thomas Bonald (Télécom Paris) and Dr. Lucas Dixon (Google). My thesis focus was on the analysis and control of online interactions through Neural Natural Language Processing.

I hold an engineering degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from CentraleSupelec and a M.Eng. in Data Science & Systems from the University of California, Berkeley. Before my PhD, I worked as a research engineer at A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R).

Interests

My research aims at leveraging the capabilities of Large Language Models to address issues emerging from online discussions. Web interactions on social media and news platforms may have serious consequences in real life but I am convinced that Artificial Intelligence technologies are poised to foster more constructive online behaviors. More generally, I am interested in applications of machine learning and I am always curious in learning new topics in computer science and engineering.

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