Dominika Agnieszka Długosz

ELLIS PhD Student in AI

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Hi, I’m Dominika!

I am a first-year ELLIS PhD Student. I’m pursuing a double degree at Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon, Portugal) and University of Granada (Spain) under the supervision of professor Arlindo Oliveira and professor Natalia Diaz-Rodriguez. While our current work is fueled by a shared passion for AI, we are also connected by a common history: all three of us have, at different chapters of our careers, spent time working at CERN!

📰 News

My first paper as a PhD student has been accepted to EMNLP 2026!

The Importance of Being Statistically Earnest: A Critical Re-evaluation of GSM-Symbolic
A first-year warm-up side quest that proved quite instructive. The paper argues for careful statistical significance testing in LLM evaluation to avoid false-positive findings. It pushes back on blanket claims about reasoning abilities (or lack thereof) of LLMs in favour of per-model behavioural and mechanistic analysis.

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🔬 Research Interests

My research interests revolve around the idea of making Artificial Intelligence more intelligent - whether it is by following human reasoning patterns or building a separate cognitive science for LLMs. In particular, I am pursuing the topics of:

the dual-process theory of reasoning,
long-term and working memory,
epistemic curiosity (computational thaumazein).

I believe we should strive to incorporate the rich biological priors in AI while avoiding the limitations inherent in the natural design.

🧾 In short

🎓 Doctoral Student Artificial Intelligence	🇵🇹 IST Lisbon 🇪🇸 University of Granada	2025 – Present
💼 Scientific Programmer	🇳🇴 WellID	2023 – 2025
💼 Junior Fellow	🇨🇭 CERN	2020 – 2023
🎓 MSc Student Artificial Intelligence	🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 University of Aberdeen	2019 – 2020
💼 Technical Student	🇨🇭 CERN	2018 – 2019
🎓 BSc Student Biomedical Engineering	🇵🇱 Łódź University of Technology	2014 – 2018

Maybe life is a collection of side quests which you try to post-hoc compile into a coherent narrative. In any case, I’ve been enjoying myself throughout, and others seem to have enjoyed having me around too.

🌐 Connect With Me

Feel free to reach out for collaborations or just a chat about… anything, really! I challenge you to find a topic I could possibly find boring.