Anna Sotnikova

Anna Sotnikova is a Lecturer at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), affiliated with the Natural Language Processing (NLP) Group within the School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC). She holds a dual role as a Scientific Collaborator (Collaboratrice scientifique) in NLP and a Course Lecturer (Chargée de cours) in the EDIC-ENS unit. Her research focuses on AI ethics, multilingual language models, and the societal implications of NLP systems, particularly in education and bias mitigation.

Her work bridges technical advancements in AI with their real-world applications, addressing challenges such as bias propagation in multilingual models and AI's impact on higher education. Recent projects include evaluating ChatGPT's potential to disrupt engineering education and analyzing how LLMs perpetuate human stereotypes across languages.

Anna collaborates with institutions like Cornell University and MIT, and her research is supported by funders such as the Swiss National Science Foundation. She teaches advanced courses like Topics in Natural Language Processing and maintains an active presence in EPFL's interdisciplinary research ecosystem.