Irina is a research fellow at the LIDER-Lab at Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, where she joined in 2022 as part of the National PhD in Artificial Intelligence for Society. Irina is licensed to practice law in Italy and her research focuses on developing accountability frameworks for the development and deployment of AI systems. Irina's interests include AI governance, product liability for AI-embedded products, algorithmic accountability, and the impact of Generative AI on fundamental rights.

As part of her work, she partakes in designing, developing, testing, and validating an automatic anonymization tool using NER technologies, and gaining experience in product compliance for AI systems from design to market placement.