Summary
Rossana Cunha is an NLP researcher and software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently working on conversational AI and natural language generation at CIASC in Santa Catarina, Brazil. She combines rigorous academic training—a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics focused on NLG and conversational systems, an MA in Translation Studies, and a BSc in Computer Science—with practical research in text simplification and healthcare AI. A member of Brasileiras em PLN, she bridges computational methods and Human-Computer Interaction to make language technologies more accessible and user-centered. Her bilingual and translation background gives her a nuanced perspective on linguistic variation and simplification that informs her system design. Colleagues know her for blending empirical evaluation with real-world applicability, pushing conversational models toward safer, more understandable interactions.
11 years of coding experience
English, Portuguese, Spanish