June 2024: Panelist at Mexican NLP Summer School 2024 (co-located with NAACL 2024), panel on career advancement challenges for Latin American researchers
April 2024: Co-chair of the Best Paper Award Committee at NAACL 2024
December 2023: Keynote speaker at the First Workshop on Bangla Language Processing (EMNLP 2023), talk on NLP in Mexican Spanish
September 2023: Organizer of IberLEF 2023 and the DA-VINCIS 2023 task on multimodal detection of aggressive/violent incidents in Spanish social media
July 2022: Keynote speaker at NAACL 2022 with talk 'NLP in Mexican Spanish: One of many stories'
November 2020: Appointed to the standing reviewer team of Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)
Member of Mexico's National System of Researchers (SNI Level II)
Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences (AMC), Mexican Society of Artificial Intelligence (SMIA), Mexican Society of Computer Science (SMCC), and Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN)
Founding member of the Mexican Association for Natural Language Processing (AMPLN) and the Mexican Academy of Computer Science (AMEXCOMP)
Research Experience
Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Language Technologies, National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE), Mexico (2002–present)
Visiting Professor at the PRHLT Research Center, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain (Sep 2017–Jul 2018)
Visiting Professor at the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA (Aug 2010–Jul 2011)
Visiting Professor at the Department of Information Systems and Computation, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain (Apr–Dec 2004)
Invited Professor at Dipartimento di Informatica e Scienze dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy (Summer 2004)
Doctoral Visiting Student at the Department of Computer Science, University of Chile (Jun 2000–Apr 2001)