Education
- PhD in Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation. University of Edinburgh (expected graduation date: 2023)
- Master in Informatics, Computer Science. Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú. 2016
- Bachelor of Science, Informatics Engineering. Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú. 2012
Research experience
- PhD researcher, University of Edinburgh, Feb 2019 - present, 3.5+ years.
- Research intern, Knowledge Graph team, Huawei UK, Jan 2022 - Aug 2022, 7 months.
- Pre-doctoral researcher, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Jan 2016 - Jan 2019, 3 years (external collaborator since then).
Awards & Grants
- NAACL Emerging Region Funding (2020-2021): To support the organisation of NLP events in LatAm (NLP summer school in Peru).
- Amazon Web Services Research Credits (2018): Research credits to support my NLP research for language technologies development in Peru.
- NVIDIA GPU Grant Program (2017): Titan Xp awarded to support my NLP research for language technologies development in Peru.
- CONCYTEC funding: (2015, 2018): Research grants for the development of language technologies for Amazonian languages in Peru.
- PAIP - PUCP (2015): Research grant from the Vice-Rectorate of Research to support my master’s thesis.
Service
- Co-organiser of AmericasNLP, Workshop series on NLP for the Indigenous Languages of the Americas
- Organiser of the NLP & MT summer school series (2020-2021) in Peru.
- Co-founder of Chana and host of a bi-weekly reading club on Computational Linguistics and NLP for Amerindian languages.
- Reviewer of: ACL Rolling Review WMT, MT Summit, LoResMT, ACL SRW, WiNLP, LatinX.
