Scholar
Esaú Villatoro Tello
Google Scholar ID: GzaiunYAAAAJ
Idiap Research Institute
Citations & Impact
Citations
792
H-index
14
i10-index
23
Publications
20
Co-authors
39
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Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Authored over 100 publications including conference papers, journal articles, and book chapters
- Supervised more than 28 Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD theses
- Served as Program Committee member for major NLP conferences such as ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, COLING, etc.
- Regular Area Chair for the ACL Rolling Review System
- Organizing committee member of the Mexican NLP Summer School co-located with NAACL in 2021 and 2024
Research Experience
- Current researcher at Idiap Research Institute’s Speech and Audio Processing Group
- Former tenured faculty at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Cuajimalpa (UAM-C)
- Principal Investigator (PI) of more than five projects funded by Mexico’s CONACyT
- Recipient of a 2025–2029 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) grant for AI technologies in mental health and well-being
- Involved in projects including ORIENTER, ELOQUENCE, CRITERIA, ROXANNE, and SARAL
Background
- Researcher in the Speech and Audio Processing Group at Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland (since September 2019)
- Held a tenured position at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Cuajimalpa (UAM-C), Mexico City from June 2012 to December 2022
- Over 15 years of experience in Computer Science
- Research interests include Computational Linguistics (CL), Information Retrieval (IR), and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Recent work focuses on the intersection of NLP and Social Sciences, with applications in Mental Health, Authorship Analysis, Natural and Spoken Language Understanding (NLU/SLU), Semantic Analysis, and News Media Profiling
