My google scholar, research gate, orcid and dblp listings. I host code on github.

Journal

How should an explanation be? A mapping of technical and legal desiderata of explanations for machine learning models [pdf]
Alejandra Bringas Colmenarejo*, Laura State*, Giovanni Comande (*shared first authorship)

International Review of Law, Computers & Technology, 2025.

The explanation dialogues: an expert focus study to understand requirements towards explanations within the GDPR [pdf]
Laura State, Alejandra Bringas Colmenarejo, Andrea Beretta, Salvatore Ruggieri, Franco Turini, Stephanie Law

Artificial Intelligence and Law, 2025.

Policy advice and best practices on bias and fairness in AI [pdf]
Jose M. Alvarez, Alejandra Bringas-Colmenarejo, Alaa Elobaid, Simone Fabrizzi, Miriam Fahimi, Antonio Ferrara, Siamak Ghodsi, Carlos Mougan, Ioanna Papageorgiou, Paula Reyero, Mayra Russo, Kristen M. Scott, Laura State, Xuan Zhao, Salvatore Ruggieri

Ethics and Information Technology, 2024.

Explaining Short Text Classification with Diverse Synthetic Exemplars and Counter-Exemplars [pdf]
Orestis Lampridis, Laura State, Riccardo Guidotti, Salvatore Ruggieri

Machine Learning, 2022.

Conference/Workshop (selected)

From Explaining to Diagnosing: A Justice-Oriented Framework of Explainable AI for Bias Detection [pdf]
Miriam Fahimi*, Laura State*, Atoosa Kasirzadeh (*shared first authorship)

Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES) 2025.

Reason to Explain: Interactive contrastive explanations (REASONX) [pdf]
Laura State, Salvatore Ruggieri, Franco Turini

The 1st World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI) 2023.

Explainability in Practice: Estimating Electrification Rates from Mobile Phone Data in Senegal [pdf]
Laura State, Hadrien Salat, Stefania Rubrichi, Zbigniew Smoreda

The 1st World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI) 2023.

Declarative Reasoning on Explanations Using Constraint Logic Programming [pdf]
Laura State, Salvatore Ruggieri, Franco Turini

Short paper. European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA) 2023.

Can We Trust Fair-AI? [pdf]
Salvatore Ruggieri, Jose M. Alvarez, Andrea Pugnana, Laura State, Franco Turini

Senior Member Track. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2023.

PhD and master thesis

Explainability requirements and a declarative explanation tool: an integrated approach [pdf]
PhD thesis, 2024.

Training Delays in Spiking Neural Networks [pdf]
Master thesis, 2019.