Paloma Piot is a MSCA PhD candidate at Universidade da Coruña specializing in NLP and hate speech detection for the HYBRIDS project, combining rigorous research with applied machine learning. With nine years of software engineering experience, she brings hands-on expertise across Java, Kotlin, .NET, and Flutter, and a track record building robust backend systems in fintech and industry. Her work bridges functional and non-functional requirements, often translating research insights into production-ready solutions. She has complemented her PhD with multiple visiting researcher stints across European institutions, gaining interdisciplinary perspectives on social-science-driven NLP. Based in A Coruña, Spain, Paloma pairs academic rigor with practical engineering discipline, uniquely positioning her to tackle real-world content moderation challenges. An early polyglot developer who moved from mobile and backend engineering into LLMs and hate-speech detection, she retains a developer’s pragmatism alongside scholarly depth.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Máster Universitario en Ingeniería Informática, Máster Universitario en Ingeniería Informática at Universidade da Coruña
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