Virgile Rennard

Postdoctoral Associate

Dr. Virgile Rennard is a postdoctoral associate in SERC. He received his PhD in computer science from École Polytechnique in 2025 where his dissertation focused on dialogue understanding and summarization, with applications to political discourse and meeting conversations. His research lies between the intersection of natural language processing and political science. He is particularly interested in the development of large language models (LLMs) for dialogue and debate, and in understanding how these models reflect and reproduce political and cultural biases. In addition to bias and fairness, Virgile’s research addresses the practical deployment of dialogue systems. At MIT, he will be working on leveraging LLMs and generative AI for deliberative democracy.