Scholar
Danae Sánchez Villegas
Google Scholar ID: jafwsyYAAAAJ
University of Copenhagen
Citations & Impact
Citations
106
H-index
7
i10-index
3
Publications
13
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Publications: 'Evaluating Multimodal Language Models as Visual Assistants for Visually Impaired Users' received the SAC Award; 'MuSeD: A Multimodal Spanish Dataset for Sexism Detection in Social Media Videos' accepted to appear in COLM 2025; 'Movie Facts and Fibs (MF2): A Benchmark for Long Movie Understanding' available in arXiv.
Research Experience
- Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Copenhagen, working with the LAMP group and affiliated with CoAStaL NLP and the Pioneer Center for AI. Previously, worked as a Research Associate in the SheffieldNLP group and as an Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon Alexa Shopping, focusing on generative language models.
Education
- Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing from the University of Sheffield (UK), supervised by Professor Nikos Aletras; MSc in Computer Science from the University of Sheffield; BSc in Computer Engineering from ITAM (Mexico City).
Background
- Research Interests: NLP, vision-and-language modeling, and socially impactful AI. Brief Introduction: Currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Copenhagen, focusing on the development, evaluation, and applications of vision-and-language models.
Miscellany
- Personal Interests: Yoga and Pilates. Passionate about mentoring students, especially women from Latin America and other underrepresented communities in AI. Co-organized the LatinX in AI Workshop at NAACL'24 and is part of the core team of SomosNLP, the Iberomerican NLP community.
Co-authors