Summary
Marta Villegas is a senior AI researcher and technology leader based in the Greater Barcelona area with over a decade of focused experience in language technologies and research infrastructure. She has led multimodal, multimedia and multilingual corpus creation and deployed web applications for data access and visualization, bridging research and usable tools. At institutions including Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and UAB she has driven EU-funded projects that span HPC, text and data mining, and national language-resource infrastructures. Her work combines deep expertise in NLP resource engineering, standards engagement (W3C/ISO), and practical deployment for reproducible research. Marta’s career reflects a rare blend of long-term academic grounding with hands-on platform-building for large collaborative projects. Colleagues rely on her to translate complex interoperability and evaluation needs into maintainable systems that scale across languages and modalities.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer