Maria聽Pacheco
Assistant Professor at University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolMaria Pacheco is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at CU Boulder and a PhD-trained researcher specializing in neural-symbolic methods for modeling natural language discourse. With 11 years of experience spanning academic teaching, industrial research stints at Microsoft and Twitter, and interdisciplinary collaborations with security labs, she applies NLP to both political discourse and practical network-security problems. Her work bridges deep statistical relational learning and applied NLP for extracting actionable information from technical documentation, reflecting a rare mix of theoretical rigor and real-world impact. Having led large undergraduate courses and mentored sizable TA teams, she combines research leadership with strong pedagogy and industry-facing collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science & Engineering at Universidad Sim贸n Bol铆varDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Purdue University
Spanish, English, Japanese, German
Github Skills (38)
acl10
computational-linguistics10
phonetics10
natural-language-processing10
ranking10
science10
computer-science10
react10
audio9
nlp9
speech-recognition8
python8
deep-learning8
machine-learning8
llm8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mlpacheco/CSrankings
Jul 2023 - Sep 2025
A web app for ranking computer science departments according to their research output in selective venues, and for finding active faculty across a wide range of areas.
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 1 month
mlpacheco/acl-anthology
Jul 2020 - Jul 2022
Data and software for building the ACL Anthology.
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
acl-anthologyaclanthology
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