Chiara Semenzin

Chiara is a postdoctoral researcher at ESP, where her work brings together linguistics, machine learning, and biology. She builds computational and information-theoretic tools to probe the structure and meaning of animal communication, currently centering on dolphin acoustic communication. Trained in linguistics and cognitive science (MA and MSc, University of Edinburgh), she is fascinated by what happens when speech and representation models are stretched past the human voice and turned toward other species.