My current research interest focus on educational applications of NLP. Other research interests include knowledge acquisition for machine reading comprehension and question answering, particulary when common sense knowledge is required. I am also interested in temporal reasoning, especially on it’s application to the clinical domain. On a personal note, I love sports and music.
Previously, I was a Specially Appointed Assistant Professor in the Tohoku NLP Group led by Professor Kentaro Inui at Tohoku University, Japan. Before moving to Japan, I worked as Data Manager of a clinical trial at the National Institute of Psychiatry Ramon de la Fuente Muñiz in Mexico City. I hold a PhD and Master’s degree in Information Science from Tohoku University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with a major in Networking and Security from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education.
Education
- Doctor of Information Science, Tohoku University, 2018 - 2021
- Master of Information Science, Tohoku University, 2016 - 2018
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Technology, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, 2006 - 2010
Awards
- Excellence Award, 26th Annual Meeting of the Language Processing Society of Japan. 2020
- Funding for selected candidates, Data Science Summer School at the University of Göttingen, Germany. 2019
- 3rd Best Poster, Third Annual Data Science in Life Science and Engineering Collaboration and Symposium at Case Western Reserve University. 2017
- Monbukagakusho (Japanese Government) MEXT Graduate Scholarship. 2015-2021
Activities
Diversity and Inclusion (D&I)
- NAACL 2024 Ethics Co-chair
- LatinX in NLP 2024 workshop
- Mexican NLP Summer School 2024
- NAACL 2022 D&I Co-chair
- LatinX in NLP 2022 workshop
- LatinX in AI (LXAI) socials: EMNLP 2020, EACL 2021, EMNLP 2022
Reviewer
- BEA 2023, 2024
- LREC-COLING 2024
- Journal of Cognitive Science
- ACL SRW 2022
- ACL-IJCNLP SRW 2021
- AACL-IJCNLP SRW 2020
- ACL SRW 2020
Interviews & Talks
- [Online talk @ UAM] Trabajando en PLN: lo que debes saber (Working in NLP: what you need to know), scheduled for April 2024
- [Online talk @ SomosNLP] Escritura de abstracts: presenta tu proyecto a LatinX in NLP (how to write an abstract tutorial), 2024
- [Interview @ QueerInAI] Making a Home for all the Parts, 2023
- [Interview @ EmbamexJP] Lenguaje e Inteligencia Artificial (Language and Artificial Intelligence), 2023