đź‘‹ Andrei C. Coman
Research Assistant at Idiap and Ph.D. Candidate at EPFL

About

I am a Research Assistant at the Idiap Research Institute and a Ph.D. Candidate at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), specialising in Deep Learning (DL) at the intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Knowledge Graphs (KG). My research focuses on advancing Knowledge Representation and Language Understanding by developing models that integrate unstructured text and structured relational data to improve Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. This work builds on my background in Information Retrieval, Big Data Analysis, and Data Science.



I bring applied research experience, rigorous experimental methodology, and hands on exposure to real world challenges through industry internships, along with a track record of translating theoretical advances into practical, high performing systems. I value collaboration and have worked closely with researchers, engineers, and practitioners across multiple projects and institutions, believing that openness, respect, and kindness are essential for successful teamwork and innovation.



Publications
2025
Andrei C. Coman, Christos Theodoropoulos, Marie-Francine Moens, James Henderson
ACL 2025 Findings

Fehr, F. J., Baia, A. E., Chang, X., Coman, A. C., Hajal, K. E., Zein, D. E., Kumar, S., Gomez, J. P. Z., Cavallaro, A., Teney, D., and Henderson, J
ICLR 2025 SCSL Workshop

Christos Theodoropoulos, Andrei C. Coman, Marie-Francine Moens, James Henderson
arXiv

2024
Andrei C. Coman, Christos Theodoropoulos, Marie-Francine Moens, James Henderson
ACL 2024 KnowledgeNLP Workshop

Christos Theodoropoulos, Andrei C. Coman, Marie-Francine Moens, James Henderson
IEEE Access

2023
Andrei C. Coman, Gianni Barlacchi, AdriĂ  de Gispert
EMNLP 2023 Findings

James Henderson, Alireza Mohammadshahi, Andrei C. Coman, Lesly Miculicich
EMNLP 2023 Big Picture Workshop

2021
Christos Theodoropoulos, James Henderson, Andrei C. Coman, Marie-Francine Moens
CoNLL 2021

2019
Andrei C. Coman, Koichiro Yoshino, Yukitoshi Murase, Satoshi Nakamura, Giuseppe Riccardi
INTERSPEECH 2019

2018
Andrei C. Coman, Giacomo Zara, Yaroslav Nechaev, Gianni Barlacchi, Alessandro Moschitti
AI*IA 2018 NL4AI Workshop

Andrei C. Coman, Yaroslav Nechaev, Giacomo Zara
CLiC-it 2018 EVALITA Workshop