Alejandro Villegas
Scientific Researcher In Artificial Intelligence And Data Science
Mexico
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Top SchoolAlejandro Villegas is a PhD-trained researcher in Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics with over a decade of experience applying AI and data science to real-world problems in Mexico. Since 2017 he has led research in artificial intelligence and data science at the National Geointelligence Laboratory under CONACyT, after prior work as a text-mining expert for CONABIO. He combines academic rigor—PhD (Honours) from Avignon and an MS from UNAM—with applied skills in pattern recognition, algorithms and voice recognition, coordinating Mexico’s Automatic Voice Recognition Group since 2016. A founder member of the Mexican Association of Natural Language Processing, he brings both domain leadership and hands-on research development to cross-disciplinary teams. Notably, his career bridges biodiversity informatics and geointelligence, reflecting a knack for adapting language technologies to diverse national challenges.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidad Autónoma MetropolitanaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING at Avignon Université
English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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40answers
12questions
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Github Skills (59)
python10
speech-to-text8
corpus8
word-embeddings8
data-mining8
fasttext8
lda8
topic-modeling8
word2vec8
arabic-nlp7
latent-dirichlet-allocation7
machine-learning7
information-retrieval7
natural-language-processing7
sentence-similarity7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alemol/covidminer
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
Text Mining Emergent Library for Information Extraction from Medical Notes in Spanish during COVID-19 pandemic
Contributions:99 commits, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 4 months
information-extractiontext-mining
alemol/voces-misoginas
Aug 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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