José Pérez
Director, Language Technology Research at expert.ai
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolJosé Pérez is a seasoned AI scientist and research executive based in Madrid, with over two decades of experience translating language technology research into commercial products and strategic business initiatives. As Director of Language Technology Research at expert.ai he leads teams across language understanding, generation, and knowledge graphs, and served as Scientific Director for an industry-tailored enterprise LLM for insurance. His career blends academic rigor—a PhD and postdoctoral work in semantic web and computational logic—with hands-on R&D leadership at companies like Expert System and iSOCO, where he also sat on boards and fostered industry-academic partnerships. Known for lifting projects from concept to product, he combines technical contribution to corporate strategy with mentorship of managers and junior talent. An early systems optimizer, he once engineered a 10x speedup in telecom billing processes, illustrating a practical bent for measurable impact.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Ph.D. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Github Skills (16)
binder9
nlp8
notebook8
natural-language-processing7
linked-data6
edit-distance5
specification5
translation4
python3
java3
nmt3
crate2
rust2
neural2
machine-translation2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
expertailab/HybridNLP
Oct 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
HybridNLP2018/tutorial
Oct 2018 - Jan 2020
Repo with the notebooks and overall materials of the HybridNLP 2018 tutorial (http://expertsystemlab.com/hybridNLP18/)
Contributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 46 pushes in 1 year 3 months
nlpnotebooknotebooksnatural-language-processingbinder
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