Debora Nozza

Debora Nozza is an Assistant Professor in Computing Sciences at Bocconi University, where she leads research on ethics in Natural Language Processing with a focus on hate speech detection and algorithmic bias in multilingual contexts. She was awarded a €1.5 million ERC Starting Grant (2023) for her project PERSONAE, exploring personalized and subjective approaches to NLP. Previously, she secured a €120,000 Fondazione Cariplo Grant (2019) for the MONICA project analyzing Italian responses to the pandemic.

• Education:
  • PhD in Computer Science (2018), University of Milano Bicocca

Her research spans hate speech detection, gender bias in language models, and computational social science. She organizes key workshops like the Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) and Gender Bias in NLP (GeBNLP) at ACL conferences, and co-led shared tasks including HODI (Homotransphobia Detection in Italian) and HatEval (hate speech against immigrants).

Recent publications address actionable bias metrics, gender pronoun handling in translation, and large-scale stereotype amplification via text-to-image generation. Her work combines model interpretability, cross-lingual frameworks, and social impact analysis to tackle systemic biases.

• Scientific Awards:
  • ERC Starting Grant (2023)
  • Fondazione Cariplo Grant (2019)

She actively participates in international conferences, including keynotes at ECCV 2024 and WASSA 2024, and collaborates with groups like MilaNLP and ACL workshops.