Nestor Alvaro
Director De IA Y Analítica Avanzada at Spain AI
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolNestor Alvaro is an AI and ML leader based in Madrid with over 15 years of experience bridging research, product and enterprise delivery, currently directing AI and Advanced Analytics at Santalucía Seguros. He combines deep NLP expertise—anchored by a PhD and research roles at The University of Tokyo and NII—with hands-on production work building information-extraction and early detection systems for real-world text corpora. Nestor has led cognitive and analytics teams at Deloitte and BBVA, architected AI solutions in industry, and teaches advanced neural networks and big data courses, reflecting a blend of academic rigor and commercial impact. As co-founder and board member of Spain AI he has helped scale a national AI community to 10+ cities and 3,000+ members, showing a talent for ecosystem building beyond the lab. Fluent in Spanish and experienced with Japanese research environments, he brings multicultural perspective to global NLP problems and AI adoption strategies.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PDL, PDL at IESE Business SchoolPhD in Natural Language Processing Computational Linguistics, PhD in Natural Language Processing Computational Linguistics at NII (国立情報学研究所) and The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI) (総合研究大学院大学)Japanese language certificate, Japanese language certificate at ISI Language SchoolBsC Computer Science (“Ingeniería Informática”) Computer Science, BsC Computer Science (“Ingeniería Informática”) Computer Science at Universidad de AlcaláJapanese language certificate, Japanese language certificate at Tokyo University of Foreign StudiesSummer stay at the University of Cambridge Computer Science, Summer stay at the University of Cambridge Computer Science at University of CambridgeBachelor in Computer Science, Bachelor in Computer Science at Oxford Brookes University
English, French, Japanese, Spanish
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Github Skills (8)
nltk6
nlp6
twitter6
macos6
sentiwordnet6
python6
r6
package6
Github contributions (5)
nestoralvaro/JBI_Pharmacovigilance
Oct 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:32 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
nestoralvaro/BLAH2015
Mar 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:33 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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