• Andrea Piergentili, Doctorate in IECS, U. Trento, April 2026. Dissertation: “Towards Gender-Inclusive Machine Translation”.
  • Beomseok Lee, Doctorate Program in Industrial Innovation, U. Trento, April 2026. Dissertation: “Multilingual Spoken Language Understanding — Efficient Speech Dataset Collection, Architectural Exploration, and Zero-Shot SLU”. First job after PhD dissertation: GetVocal AI, France.
  • Dennis Fucci, Doctorate in IECS, U. Trento, October 2025. Dissertation: “Towards Trustworthy Speech Technologies: Enhancing Explainability and Mitigating Gender Bias in Speech Transcription and Translation”.
  • Sara Papi, Doctorate in IECS, U. Trento, April 2024. Dissertation: “Direct Speech Translation in Constrained Contexts: the Simultaneous and Subtitling Scenarios”. First job after PhD dissertation: Post-doctorate at FBK, Italy.
  • Beatrice Savoldi, Doctorate in Linguistics, U. Trento and U. of Augsburg, June 2023. Dissertation: “Gender Bias in Automatic Translation”. First job after PhD dissertation: Post-doctorate at FBK, Italy.
  • Marco Gaido, Doctorate in IECS, U. Trento, April 2023. Dissertation: “Direct Speech Translation Toward High-Quality, Inclusive, and Augmented Systems”. First job after PhD dissertation: Post-doctorate at FBK, Italy.
  • Alina Karakanta, Doctorate in ICT, U. Trento, October 2022. Dissertation: “Machine Translation for Machines”. First job after PhD dissertation: Assistant Professor, Leiden University, Netherlands.
  • Amirhossein Tebbifakhr, Doctorate in ICT, U. Trento, October 2021. Dissertation: “Machine Translation for Machines”. First job after PhD dissertation: VUI Inc., Italy.
  • Mattia Antonino Di Gangi, Doctorate in ICT, U. Trento, April 2020. Dissertation: “Neural Speech Translation From Neural Machine Translation to Direct Speech Translation”. First job after PhD dissertation: AppTek, Aachen, Germany.
  • Surafel Melaku Lakew, Doctorate in ICT, U. Trento, April 2020. Dissertation: “Multilingual Neural Machine Translation for Low Resource Languages”. First job after PhD dissertation:  Amazon, California, U.S.
  • Rajen Chatterjee, Doctorate in ICT, U. Trento, October 2019. Dissertation: “Automatic Post-Editing for Machine Translation”. First job after PhD dissertation: research scientist at Apple, California, U.S.
  • Duygu Ataman, Doctorate in ICT, U. Trento, September 2019. Dissertation: “Learning Morphology for Open-Vocabulary Neural Machine Translation”. First job after PhD dissertation: postdoctoral researcher at Universität Zürich, Switzerland.
  • Ruchit Agrawal, PhD student candidate, Nov 2017-December 2018.
  • Mohammad Amin Farajian, Doctorate in ICT, U. Trento, Aprl 2018. Dissertation: “Online Adaptive Neural Machine Translation: from single- to multi-domain scenarios”. First job after PhD dissertation: Unbabel, Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Nicholas Ruiz, Doctorate in ICT, U. Trento, April, 2016. Dissertation:”Speech Adaptation Modelling for Statistical Machine Translation”. First job after PhD dissertation: senior scientist at Interaction LLC, USA.
  • Prashant Mathur, Doctorate in ICT, U. Trento, April, 2016. Dissertation:”Adaptation Methods for Statistical Machine Translation In Business Scenarios”, First job after PhD dissertation: research scientist at eBay inc. in Aachen, Germany.
  • José Guilherme Camargo de Souza, Doctorate in ICT, U. Trento, April, 2016. Dissertation: “Adaptve Quality Estimation for Machine Translation and Automatic Speech Recognition”. First job after PhD dissertation: reserach scientist at eBay inc. in Aachen, Germany.
  • Vishal Khadake, former Phd student at HLT-MT.
  • Arianna Bisazza, Doctorate in ICT, U. Trento, April, 2013. Dissertation: “Linguistically Motivated Reordering Modeling for Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation”. First job after PhD dissertation: Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Amsterdam.
  • Yashar Mehdad, Doctorate in ICT, U. Trento, March 23, 2012. Dissertation: “Cross Lingual Textual Entailment and Applications”. First job after PhD dissertation: ML/NLP scientist at Airbnb, in San Francisco.
  • Christian Hardmeier, former PhD student at U. Trento, he left in 2011 to start a PhD program at University of Uppsala, Sweden.
  • Daniele Pighin, Doctorate in ICT, U. Trento, May 26, 2010. Dissertation: “Greedy Feature Selection in Tree Kernel Spaces”. After a postdoc at UPC Barcelona he joined Google Inc. in Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Dino Seppi, degree obtained: Doctorate in Computer Science, U. Bolzano/Bozen, 2008. “Dissertation: Prosody in Automatic Speech Processing”. After holding a post doctoral position at FBK-irst, Dino moved to Polderland Language & Speech Technology in Nijmegen (NL), then to Leuven University (Belgium) and now he is researcher at Nuance Communications Inc.
  • Matteo Gerosa, degree obtained: Doctorate in ICT, U. Trento, Mar 2006. Dissertation: “Automatic Speech Recognition for Children”. After holding post-doc positions at U. of Southern California and at FBK-irst, Matteo joined in 2010 an innovation lab of FBK.
  • Nicola Bertoldi, degree obtained: Doctorate in Mathematics, U. Trento, February 2005. Dissertation: “Statistical Models and Search Algorithms for Machine Translation”. Now staff researcher at FBK in the HLT-MT Research Unit.
  • Vanessa Sandrini, degree obtained: Doctorate in ICT, U. Trento, Mar 2005. Dissertation: “Systematic Comparison of Maximum Entropy Models for Tagging Problems”. Now at VMEC srl, Verona.
  • Vu Hai Quan, degree obtained: Doctorate in ICT, U. Trento, Mar 2005 Dissertation: “Applications of Word Graphs in Spoken Language Processing”. After a post-doc at Katholic University Leuven, he joined University of Science Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He is now associate professor and vice-president for international relationships.
  • Laurens Van der Werff, PhD student candidate, Nov 2004-Apr 2005. After leaving FBK, he joined the PhD program at U. of Twente, Netherlands, where he graduated in 2012 and currently holds a post-doctoral position.