Hi, I’m Dan! Here is some information about me:

• I am a third-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico supported by a FCT PhD Studentship.
• I am very fortunate to be co-advised by Giuseppe Attanasio, André Martins, and Maarten Sap.
• I am a member of both the Sardine 🐟 and Sapling 🌱 Labs, making me a Sap-line 🤷?
• Here is a link to my curriculum vitae.

Interests

• I am broadly interested in multilingual NLP, human-computer interaction, computational social science, and linguistics.
• I am specifically interested in observing and incorporating user perspectives of language technologies into building more speaker-centered translation and multilingual systems, with specific emphasis on minoritized dialects and low resourced languages.

Highlights

• (Jul. 2026) Our paper Locating Translation as a Craft in the Age of AI Translation has been accepted to AIES! See you in Malmö 🇸🇪!
• (Jun. 2026) Our paper Making a Name for Myself: On Academic Naming Policies and their Impact won a Best Paper Honorable Mention at FAccT in Montreal 🎉!
• (Jun. 2025) I presented our paper Not Like Us, Hunty: Measuring Perceptions and Behavioral Effects of Minoritized Anthropomorphic Cues in LLMs at FAccT in Athens 🇬🇷!

Prior Experience

• I was previously a research assistant for Nikola Banovic and Nel Escher in the Computational HCI Lab at the University of Michigan. I was also formerly a SULI Intern at Argonne National Laboratory and a DSI Summer Lab RA at the University of Chicago Data Science Institute.
• Before that, I spent four impactful years at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. Alongside my coursework, I also completed an honors project where I prototyped a Google Maps extension designed to reduce driving anxiety. I am still a very active part of the alumni community at yMac, so if you are a current Macalester student or a recent grad please don’t hesitate to reach out! Go Scots!

Contact Me

Please feel free to contact me! My email address is linked on the sidebar, but here is another link for good measure.