My current research interest focus on educational applications of NLP. More specifically, feedback generation in second language (L2) learning. 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)
- Hackathon SomosNLP 2025
- 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
Workshops
- EvalLac 2024 (co-located with AIED 2024)
Reviewer
- Natural Language Processing (a Cambridge University Press journal)
- WRAICOGS 2025
- BEA 2023, 2024, 2025
- LREC-COLING 2024
- Journal of Cognitive Science
- ACL SRW 2022
- ACL-IJCNLP SRW 2021
- AACL-IJCNLP SRW 2020
- ACL SRW 2020
Interviews & Talks
- [Panelist @ 2024 AGI Odyssey Symposium] AI for Education: Transforming Learning Environments, October 2024
- [Online talk @ UAM] Trabajando en PLN: lo que debes saber (Working in NLP: what you need to know), 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