Elfia is a PhD candidate in the Department of Informatics at King’s College London, working in the field of Argumentation. She is part of the UKRI Safe and Trusted AI Centre for Doctoral Training, where she is also a representative of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) committee.

Her research aims to support the development of technologies for human-human and human-AI ethical debate, so as to enable transparent and rational joint reasoning, in particular about matters of ethical significance. On top of her research, Elfia is a Graduate Teaching Assistant at King's for level 6/7 modules and she is also undertaking the Associateship of King’s College London programme.

Prior to these, Elfia obtained an MSc cum laude in Artificial Intelligence at Utrecht University, in 2021, and an Integrated Master in Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the National Technical University of Athens, in 2018.

Thesis title

Debating Ethics: Using Natural Language Datasets to Support Human and AI Debate

Principal supervisor: Dr Oana Cocarascu 
Second supervisor: Dr Sanjay Modgil 

Research interests

• Artificial Intelligence
• Argumentation
• Argument Schemes
• Ethics
• Value alignment