Alexandra Sasha Vorobyova[1][2] was born in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1990. When she was four years old, her family relocated to Ontario, Canada.[3] Her interest in science is influenced by her family's history; her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother all pursued careers in scientific fields.[3]
In 2019, she became a postdoctoral researcher at Université de Montréal and Mila, collaborating with computer scientist Yoshua Bengio on a project titled This Climate Does Not Exist. This initiative utilized generative adversarial networks to visualize the effects of climate change.[3][4] During this time, she also contributed to integrating fairness and accountability into machine learning education at Mila.[4]
Luccioni briefly worked with the United Nations Global Pulse in 2021, developing tools to monitor COVID-19 misinformation.[4] Later that year, she joined Hugging Face as a research scientist. Her role includes quantifying the carbon footprint of AI systems, co-chairing the carbon working group in the Big Science project, and advancing responsible machine learning practices.[4][5]
