Emiliana Dimitrova

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow 2026

About:
My name is Emiliana Dimitrova, and for the summer of 2026 I’ll be working as a research intern at INSAIT, the Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology, at Sofia University. I am an undergraduate student at MIT studying Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making. My research work focuses on multi-objective alignment of LLMs and specifically, making models more empathetic while preserving their reliability. My advisors are Dr. Yuxia Wang and Dr. Federico Marcuzzi.

Education:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (September 2025 – present) – Candidate for Bachelor of Science in Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making (Course 6-4)

Sofia High School of Mathematics, Sofia, Bulgaria (September 2017 – May 2025) – Intensive specialization in Mathematics and Computer Science, GPA 6.00/6.00

Research Experience:
Undergraduate Researcher, MIT EECS – Interpretative Jury Learning (February 2026 – May 2026). Developing an interpretative jury learning algorithm to investigate whose voices LLMs represent the most. Advisors: Prof. Mitchell Gordon, Andre Ye.

Research Science Institute (RSI) 2024 Scholar, MIT CSAIL – Towards the Synergy Between the Linear Transformer Model and Retentive Networks. Advisors: Prof. Yoon Kim, Han Guo.

Finding Winning Lottery Tickets in Graph Neural Networks (August 2023 – May 2024). Improving the Stability of the Linear Transformer Model Through Proportional Increase in Its Complexity (December 2022 – May 2023). Advisor: Radoslav Dimitrov, University of Oxford.

Awards:
European Girls’ Olympiad in Informatics (EGOI) – Silver (2025, 2023, 2021), Bronze (2022)

International Informatics Olympiad in Teams (IIOT) – Honorary Gold (2024)