Ramón Fernandez Astudillo
Research Scientist at IBM
USA, Spain
Summary
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SeniorRamón Astudillo is a Principal Research Scientist and manager with 13 years of experience leading interdisciplinary teams on large language model alignment, post-training techniques (SDG, RLHF, RLVR) and test-time inference at IBM Research AI. He co-leads international research challenges on generative model alignment and structured synthetic data, and previously advanced semantic parsing and neuro-symbolic architectures through MIT‑IBM collaborations. Ramón’s background spans robust speech and language processing from a DAAD‑funded PhD at TU Berlin to postdoctoral work at INESC‑ID, and he helped scale ML research into production at Unbabel. An active organizer of the Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School, he contributes to the lxmls-toolkit by refactoring core NLP tooling—demonstrating a pragmatic focus on code quality and reproducible research. Based in Yorktown, NY, he blends deep academic rigor with practical engineering to operationalize cutting-edge conversational AI.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
machine-learning10
python10
natural-language-processing9
implement9
nlp9
algorithm9
algorithms9
refactoring8
machine-learning-models8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
LxMLS/lxmls-toolkit
Jul 2012 - Jul 2020
Machine Learning applied to Natural Language Processing Toolkit used in the Lisbon Machine Learning Summer School
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & ML Engineer
Back-end Developer & ML EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 281 commits, 109 PRs in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ramón's commits primarily focused on refactoring and improving existing machine learning tools within the lxmls-toolkit repository. The user replaced `sys.path.append('path')` calls with proper imports, streamlining the code and making modules more accessible. They made targeted changes in various sequence models and classifier files to improve their clarity and functionality, along with implementing updates related to the models for the day1 exercises.
machine-learningnatural-language-processing
ramon-astudillo/ramon-astudillo.github.io
Feb 2018 - Mar 2026
Contributions:88 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 2 months
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