Raul Vazquez
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Helsinki
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolRaul Vazquez is an applied mathematician and postdoctoral researcher based in Helsinki with eight years of experience developing multilingual and multimodal NLP systems. His work spans decoding strategies, evaluation methods, knowledge distillation, and uncertainty propagation in neural models, grounded in a PhD in Computational Linguistics and multidisciplinary MSc training in mathematical modelling. He has led ERC- and Academy-funded projects advancing massively multilingual translation and multimodal inputs (speech, images, video), and has held visiting roles at MBZUAI and the University of Amsterdam. Prior to academia he built ML-driven remote-sensing and production-optimization systems for government and industry, blending statistical rigor with practical deployment. Curious and lifelong-driven to learn—his GitHub motto reflects a researcher's mindset—he connects deep optimization and representation learning to real-world NLP challenges. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex probabilistic modelling into robust, multilingual tooling.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Studies, Mathematics and Statistics, Exchange Studies, Mathematics and Statistics at Universität des SaarlandesMSc Technomathematik, Computational and Applied Mathematics, MSc Technomathematik, Computational and Applied Mathematics at University of HamburgMSc Ingenieria Matematica, Mathematical Modelling and Optimization, MSc Ingenieria Matematica, Mathematical Modelling and Optimization at Università degli Studi dell'AquilaPhD Computational Linguistics, Field of Study: NLP, Machine Translation, Generative Language Models, PhD Computational Linguistics, Field of Study: NLP, Machine Translation, Generative Language Models at University of HelsinkiBachelor of Science (BSc), Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Applied Mathematics at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Github Skills (19)
nlp10
neural-machine-translation9
translation9
pytorch9
python9
machine-learning9
natural-language-processing9
bert9
tensorflow9
deep-learning9
speech-recognition9
transformer9
sequence-to-sequence9
language-model8
transformers8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Helsinki-NLP/FoTraNMT
Sep 2018 - Jun 2022
Open Source Neural Machine Translation in PyTorch
Contributions:2 reviews, 180 commits, 69 PRs in 3 years 9 months
pytorchmachine-translationtranslationsequence-to-sequenceneural-machine-translation
Helsinki-NLP/Geometry
Jan 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:64 commits, 10 PRs, 53 pushes in 9 months
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