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.
Background: 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.
Research interests: Multimodal AI, natural language processing, trustworthy AI, multimodal understanding and reasoning, evaluation, robustness, and AI safety.
Community: I have participated as a mentor in initiatives such as Women in Machine Learning (WiML), as a workshop organizer and speaker for LatinX in AI and as a member of SomosNLP, where I support researchers, and encourage collaboration.
Email: davi@samf.ku.dk
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News
- Oct 2026
- I’ll be in San Francisco attending COLM 2026. I’ll present our paper Reasoning Dynamics and the Limits of Monitoring Modality Reliance in Vision-Language Models and participate as a mentor at the WiML Social!
- I’m giving a talk in Cambridge University NLIP Seminar Series titled: Understanding Multimodal Reasoning Beyond Final Answers
- Attending EMNLP in Budapest. I’ll give a keynote at GroundLM Workshop. See you there!
- Sep 2026
- Our paper What’s the Catch? Evaluating Temporal Consistency in Vision-Language Models has been accepted in GroundLM Workshop @ EMNLP 2026 🥳
- 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.
- Our new pre-print is available: What’s the Catch? Evaluating Temporal Consistency in Vision-Language Models