Published 'ReToP: Learning to Rewrite Electronic Health Records for Clinical Prediction' in WSDM2026 (to appear).
Research Experience
Teaches an average of 300 hours per year at his university, as well as at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès and the French University in Armenia. Relevant teaching includes Research Initiation (TIR), Text and network mining, and Algorithms design. Current projects include MILL-EHNAS, GUIDANCE, and Geo-R2LLM. Past projects include CoST, LawBot, MEERQAT, NewsEye, and Embeddia.
Education
PhD in Computer Sciences from Université de Caen-Normandie (Caen, France) in 2014; MSc in Computer Sciences from Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogota, Colombia) in 2011; BSc in Computer Sciences from Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Medellin, Colombia) in 2006.
Background
Associate professor at the University of Toulouse, co-head of the master specialization in Artificial Intelligence: Foundations and Applications (IAFA). Interested in information retrieval and information extraction, focusing on tasks such as Named Entity Recognition (NER), Named Entity Linking (NEL), Ad-Hoc Retrieval, and text document clustering. Works in the medical domain, multimedia domain, and historical documents. Serves as a senior area chair at ACL Rolling Review, and as a senior reviewer at SIGIR and ECIR.
Miscellany
Interested in efficient algorithms and nature-inspired models, particularly enjoys bullet chess.