Simone Conia

Simone Conia is an Assistant Professor at Sapienza University of Rome specializing in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. He leads research at the intersection of Large Language Models and multilingual systems while maintaining an active research collaboration with Apple as a Research External Collaborator.

His research interests focus on Large Language Models, particularly investigating their fundamental capabilities and limitations with emphasis on improving reasoning abilities and reducing hallucinations; Multilingual NLP, developing robust systems for multiple languages with attention to low-resource settings; and Retrieval Augmented Generation, enhancing language models through external knowledge integration to improve factual accuracy.

His scholarly contributions include over 40 publications in top-tier conferences with significant citation impact (1,063 total citations, h-index 14). His work has been recognized with multiple awards:

• Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2024
• Outstanding Paper Award at NAACL 2021
• Distinguished Program Committee member at IJCAI
• Honor Student at Sapienza University

Dr. Conia's research demonstrates strong industry-academia collaboration, particularly through his ongoing work with Apple on multilingual language models and real-world applications. His citation trajectory shows rapidly growing impact, with citations increasing from 23 in 2020 to 399 in 2024.

He actively contributes to the open-source NLP community through GitHub repositories including unify-srl, wsd-hard-benchmark, and multilabel-wsd, focusing on semantic role labeling, word sense disambiguation, and knowledge graph integration with language models.