Summary
Helena Adorno is a researcher in natural language processing and computational linguistics with a PhD from the National Polytechnic Institute and eight years of professional experience spanning academia and industry. Currently based at IIMAS-UNAM and UNAM as a postdoctoral and associate researcher, she focuses on automatic machine reading, semantic similarity, and novel text representation methods to advance question answering over natural language. Her background includes seven years as an Oracle DBA and software developer in Paraguay and hands-on contributions to Spanish-language text analysis at IBM Watson Analytics. She combines deep academic rigor—top grades across her degrees—with practical systems experience teaching database administration and developing production database applications. Notably, her work bridges theoretical modeling and deployable language technologies, reflecting both research depth and real-world impact.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico
Master's Degree, Computer Science, 9.41 / 10, Master's Degree, Computer Science, 9.41 / 10 at Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla
Bachelor's Degree, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, 4.11 / 5, Bachelor's Degree, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services, 4.11 / 5 at Facultad Politécnica UNA
English