Alberto Muñoz Ortiz
Location
Vaud
Field of Study
Artificial Intelligence
Expertise
Natural Language Processing
About
Predoctoral researcher in Natural Language Processing, graduating this fall.
Predoctoral researcher in Natural Language Processing, focusing on innovative solutions for low-resource scenarios. My main research interest is to find innovative data-efficient approaches to enhance NLP system performance in low-resource environ- ments. I focus on leveraging techniques such as transfer learning, grokking, visual text representation, synthetic data generation, and the integration of linguistic information, particularly syntactic dependencies. I have published peer-reviewed articles in top tier NLP conferences and journals (*ACL) as first author. Planned graduation this fall, already living in Lausanne.
Skills
Academic Research
Academic Writing
Artificial Intelligence
Conference Speaking
Deep Learning
English
French
German
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Python
SQLite
Spanish
Open for
fulltime
freelancer
cofounder
Work Experience
Alstom
2019-10 - 2020-10
Python Developer
Madrid, Spain
internship
Developed a Python application for database management, automatizing the storage of reliability and maintainability data.
EPFL
2024-09 - 2025-03
Visiting Researcher
Vaud
fulltime
- Visiting EPFL's NLP Lab, hosted by Antoine Bosselut and Gail Weiss - Studying grokking phenomenon and its effect during training transformer
University of A Coruña
2021-02 - 2025-08
Graduate Research Assistant
A Coruña, Spain
fulltime
- Leverage ortographic and linguistic information for transfer-learning for low-resource languages and scenarios. - Synthetic data generation using morphological inflection models. - Study the effects of data quantity and quality on models for linearized representations of dependency parsing. - Evaluation of the syntax capabilities of multilingual language models.
Ludwing Maximilian University (LMU) Munich
2023-06 - 2023-09
Visiting Researcher
Munich, Germany
fulltime
- Visited MaiNLP lab, hosted by Barbara Plank - Pretrained a pixel-based language model on German and evaluated its performance on tasks involving German dialects
University of A Coruña
2023-01 - 2025-06
Graduate Teaching Assistant
A Coruña, Spain
parttime
- Instruct undergraduate courses in Python, focusing on object-oriented programming and data structures. - Instruct undergraduate courses in Natural Language Processing and Text Mining. - Delivered guest lectures on automata theory applications using Flex at University of Vigo. - Bachelor's theses co-director: developing a web application applying language models for Reddit content moderation, identifying machine-generated text using explicit syntactic information
Academic Experience
UNED -
2020.09 - 2021.09
Master of Science, MSc in Language Technologies
Universidad Complutense de Madrid -
2014.09 - 2019.06
Bachelor of Science, BSc in Physics
University of A Coruña -
2021.09 - 2025.10
Philosophical Doctorate, PhD in Computer Science