I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for AI in Society (CAISA), University of Copenhagen. I am affiliated with the LAMP group, CoAStaL NLP, and the Pioneer Centre for AI. My research focuses on developing and evaluating vision-and-language models, with a particular interest in multimodal understanding and reasoning, AI safety, robustness, and responsible AI.
I completed my Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing at the University of Sheffield (UK), supervised by Professor Nikos Aletras, where I worked on computational social science, political communication, and multimodal learning. During my Ph.D., I was also an Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon Alexa Shopping.
More broadly, I am interested in multimodal AI, natural language processing, and trustworthy multimodal AI systems, particularly their understanding, evaluation, and real-world applications.
Outside of research, I enjoy connecting with the research community through organizing and participating in events. I am an active member of the LatinX in AI community and an organizer of SomosNLP, where I support researchers, encourage collaboration, and help build a more connected Ibero-American NLP community.
📧 Email: davi@di.ku.dk
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News
- Aug 2026
- Started a new position as a Postdoctoral Researcher at CAISA, University of Copenhagen. Excited to continue my research on vision-language models with a focus on trustworthiness and safety.
- Jul 2026
- Our paper Reasoning Dynamics and the Limits of Monitoring Modality Reliance in Vision-Language Models has been accepted to appear at COLM 2026 🥳 See you in San Francisco!
- 🎉 Our work, Beyond Binary Classification: Detecting Fine-Grained Sexism in Social Media Videos, has been published in Computational Linguistics.