Sara Pieri

I am a PhD Student in Computer Vision at Inria Paris and ENS-PSL, working in the Willow team under the supervision of Cordelia Schmid and Shizhe Chen. I am also part of the ELLIS program where I am supervised by Josef Sivic.

Previously I was a Student and Research Assistant in the Computer Vision department at MBZUAI.

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Research

I am interested in Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing and Multimodal Learning.
Currently focusing on advancing trustworthiness of Vision and Language Models.

	BiMediX2: Bio-Medical EXpert LMM for Diverse Medical Modalities Sahal Shaji Mullappilly, Mohammed Irfan Kurpath, Sara Pieri, Saeed Yahya Alseiari, Shanavas Cholakkal, Khaled Aldahmani, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Salman Khan, Timothy Baldwin, Hisham Cholakkal Pending Venue, 2025 arXiv / code / hf Enhancing MMLMs for unifying text and visual modalities enabling advanced image understanding and medical applications.
	BiMediX: Bilingual Medical Mixture of Experts LLM Sara Pieri, Sahal Shaji Mullappilly, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Salman Khan, Timothy Baldwin, Hisham Cholakkal EMNLP, 2024 arXiv / code / hf Advancing LLMs for medical question-answering and dialogue applications.
	Handling Data Heterogeneity via Architectural Design for Federated Visual Recognition Sara Pieri, Jose Renato Restom, Samuel Horvath, Hisham Cholakkal NeurIPS, 2023 arXiv / code An experimental study on how to achieve better performance in federated tasks using architectural design.
	G42: Research and Development Intern Sara Pieri, Boulbaba Ben Amor, Hisham Cholakkal Learn cell shape through signed distance function (SDF) and associate them with latent codes to analyze cell morphology in low-dimensional spaces.

Blog Posts & Others

Here's a collection of my resources on interesting things I learned recently!

Build Your First Hugging Face Space with Gradio
Sara Pieri
Article

A tutorial on how to present your HF model in Spaces with Gradio.

Artificial Intelligence - Updates and Challenges with Short Stories
Sara Pieri
Slides (ITA)

Intellignza Artificiale - Brevi Storie (Volunteering 2023, Progress and Challenges of AI explained to young adults)

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