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Neko

welcome!

I'm a PhD student at Center for Information and Language Processing (CIS), at LMU, and a Junior Member at MCML. I'm advised by Hinrich Schütze.

this website is a perpetual work in progress where you can find my amateur sketches, my life and research updates, and (someday) a blog.


about me

I am interested in mechanistic interpretability, social bias, and in the intersection of NLP and ethics, linguistics, and queer theory.

outside of the lab, I like to draw and discovering punk artists around the world.

before relocating to Munich, I was:

  • a Junior Researcher at Priberam Labs, where I worked with extreme multi-label classification within the medical domain;
  • a MSc student at Instituto Superior Técnico, where I was advised by Luísa Coheur. My work focused on gender inclusivity in Portuguese NLP systems.


publications

A rewriting approach for gender inclusivity in Portuguese. [pdf]
Leonor Veloso, Luísa Coheur, and Rui Ribeiro.
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023

updates


08.01.2026 website update! unsurprisingly, links are still broken

02.12.2025 went to QueerInAI @ NeurIPS 2025 to present our in-progress dataset of queer slang

15.08.2025 Our team submitted results for the BlackboxNLP shared task! We showed that augmenting the feature mixing stage with simple non-linearities improves faithfulness in DAS.

07.12.2024 live! some links are broken