About me

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I hold a PhD from the CDT in NLP programme in the University of Edinburgh, under the supervision of [Shay B. Cohen] and [Matthias Galle]. Previously, I completed my master studies at the Language & Communication Technologies programme (LCT), and my bachelors at the National University of Engineering in Lima, Peru.

I am mainly interested in the following problems in natural language understanding and generation. In NLU, my research has focused on using memory efficient ways to do deep semantic understanding over long inputs of text (long documents or collections of documents). In NLG, I have focused on controlling for properties of text (e.g. writing style) during generation. I draw ideas from psycholinguistics by looking at how human memory works, and from linguistics models of information organization. Previously, I developed language tools for under-resourced languages of the Peruvian Amazon.

Google Scholar: [here]

Experience

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• Applied Scientist Intern

  Alexa Team
  Amazon Research Cambridge

  June 2019 - August 2019

• Research Intern

  Information Sciences Institute
  University of Southern California

  May 2018 - August 2018

• Visiting Researcher

  School of Informatics
  University of Edinburgh

  Jun 2017 - Dec 2017

• Research Programmer

  Rural Telecommunications Research Lab
  Pontifical Catholic University of Peru

  Nov 2016 - Jun 2017

• Research Assistant

  Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  Pennylvania State University

  Jan 2016 - Jul 2016

• Research Assistant

  Research Institute of Mechanics and Software
  National University of Engineering, Peru

  Aug 2014 - Dec 2015

• Student Representative

  Artificial Intelligence and Control Systems Research Lab
  National University of Engineering, Peru

  Aug 2014 - Dec 2015

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  Artificial Intelligence and Control Systems Research Lab
  National University of Engineering, Peru

  Jul 2013 - Aug 2014

Education & Training

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• PhD Sep 2019 - Jan 2024

  CDT in NLP

  University of Edinburgh

• M.Sc. Sep 2017 - June 2019

  Language and Comunication Technologies

  Charles University in Prague

  University of Malta

• B.Sc. 2015

  Mechatronics Engineering

  National University of Engineering (Lima, Peru)

• Attendee,Panelist,Tutor 2014,2020,2022

  Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School

  Technological Institute of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)

• Attendee 2022

  Mediterranean Machine Learning Summer School

  Milano-Bicocca University in Milan, Italy

• Attendee 2021

  Advanced Language Processing Winter School

  University of Grenoble, Alpes, NAVER Labs Europe

• Attendee 2015

  Machine Learning Summer School

  Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan)

• Attendee 2015

  Summer by Design: Peru

  ESAN University & Penn State U. (Lima, Peru)

• Attendee 2013

  Competitive Programming Summer School

  Campinas State University (Sao Paulo, Brasil)