I am a NLP data scientist working at IOMED. I develop tools to extract information from noisy clinical data, helping make medical studies easier and faster. To do so, I coordinate the data adquisition and labelling process, and then build models using cutting-edge Natural Language Processing. I am particularly interested on the following problems:
Before joining IOMED, I worked at Hutoma creating multilingual document-based chatbots, and at Insikt Intelligence building tools to analyze social media automatically.
I received a PhD from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. I worked at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC) under the supervision of Marco Schorlemmer. My general area of research was multi-agent communication. More concretly, I was interested in the problem of vocabulary alignment between heterogeneous agents in task-oriented interactions. I developed learning techniques that improved mutual understanding by using only the procedural information about how to perform a task by using Reinforcement Learning methods. I evaluated them on a real corpus of data obtained from the WikiHow collaborative website.
During my doctoral studies I was part of the ESSENCE Marie Curie Initial Training Network, that brings together PhD students working on different aspects of semantic evolution in artificial systems. I spent some time working in other parter institutions, such as the CISA group at the University of Edinburgh.
Before starting my doctoral studies, I received a Computer Science licenciatura (in general, equivalent to a MSc degree) from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. During my last year I spent three months as an intern at INRIA-LORIA in Nancy, France, where I conducted the research for my final thesis A study of the Combination Problem: dealing with multiple theories in SMT solving (PDF). Before that, I was a teacher assistant in different courses at my university, I took part on several science communication projects, and I worked as a freelance web developer for some time.
To contact me, write me an email to name+surname@gmail.com