I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing Sciences at Villanova University. My research insterests are in computational linguistics, machine learning, natural language processing and computational social science. Before joining Villanova, I was a post-doc research associate at the Institute for Data Exploration and Applications (IDEA) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) hosted by professor Tomek Strzalkowski. I received my PhD degree from RPI, advised by professor Sibel Adalı.
My last name is Gouvêa Gruppi, so my full name is Maurício Gouvêa Gruppi, but I go by the name Maurício Gruppi.
Research
News
2025-09-17
Presented a talk on the role of AI in disinformation to the CEET Technology and Society colloquium series.2025-01-16
Our work "On the Effects of Fine-tuning Language Models for Text-Based Reinforcement Learning" was presented at COLING 2025.2024-06-06
Presented our work "NELA-PS: A Dataset of Pink Slime News Articles for the Study of Local News Ecosystems" at ICWSM 2024 , collaboration with Ben Horne.2024-01-15
I am joined by students Jessica Esch, Joaquin Justiniano and Tom Wang who were selected by the Match program to work on the project Analyzing Language Evoltuion in Fiction and Society.2023-08-22
I have joined the Department of Computing Sciences at Villanova University as an Assistant Professor!Students
Steve Halley, Graduate Research, Spring 2026
Allyssa Panganiban, Undergraduate Research, Spring 2026
James Vo, Undergraduate Research, Spring 2026
Huyen Nguyen, Undergraduate Research, Spring 2026
Jake Bellenger, Undergraduate Research, Spring 2026
Emily Lugos, MSc Thesis, Spring 2025 - Current
Alexander Grosh, Undergraduate Research, Spring-Summer 2025
Sankalpa Rijal, Graduate Research Assistant, Fall 2024 - Spring 2025
Giorgi Tsartsidze, Graduate Research, Spring 2025/Fall 2025
Sethumadhava Mekala, Graduate Research, Fall 2024/Spring 2025
Adam Brownell, Undergraduate Research, Spring 2025
Tom Wang, Undergraduate Research, Spring/Summer 2024
Zaynah Khan, Undergraduate Research, Summer 2024
Jessica Esch, Undergraduate Research, Spring 2024
Joaquin Justiniano, Undergraduate Research, Spring 2024
