Mercedes Martínez
Manager AI Scientist at Uniphore
Greater Valencia Metropolitan Area Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolMercedes Martínez is an AI research leader with a PhD in computer science and 13 years of hands-on experience focused on Neural Machine Translation, NLP and speech technologies. She has led R&D teams in both academic and corporate settings—most notably as chief research scientist at Pangeanic and now progressing through senior to managerial AI scientist roles at Uniphore. Her work blends deep academic expertise (factored NMT from Le Mans University) with production-focused ML engineering developed across European research projects and industry deployments. Comfortable bridging research and product, she has managed teams of 10+ and driven translation and spoken-language projects from prototyping to operational use. Based in Valencia, she combines multilingual research roots with practical system-building skills often overlooked in purely academic profiles. Her background in both speech recognition and terminological database management gives her a rare end-to-end perspective on language AI pipelines.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ingeniería informática, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ingeniería informática at Le Mans UniversitéEngineer's degree, Informatics, Engineer's degree, Informatics at University of LeicesterUniversitat Politècnica de València
English, French, Catalan, Spanish, danés
Github Skills (27)
neural-machine-translation10
translation9
machine-translation9
deep-learning8
pytorch8
nlp6
language-model6
python6
linux5
conda5
machine-learning5
package-management4
workbench4
korean-nlp3
classification3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
merc85garcia/fnmt
Nov 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
merc85garcia/PhD
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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