Teresa Salazar
ML NLP Research Scientist at Universidade de Coimbra
Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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Top SchoolTeresa Salazar is an ML/NLP Research Scientist at Priberam with a decade of experience bridging academic research and industry products in responsible language technologies. She holds a PhD in Machine Learning (University of Coimbra) after an MSc in Informatics from Edinburgh and has applied her expertise at Talkdesk building human-like virtual agents and at CISUC conducting ML research. As an invited professor she mentors the next generation of ML practitioners while translating fairness and responsibility research into production-ready NLP systems. Teresa combines rigorous academic training with hands-on engineering—she’s as comfortable publishing research as she is shipping models in an industrial setting, and often focuses on practical evaluation of fairness metrics in deployed language tech.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Informatics, Master's degree Informatics at The University of EdinburghSciences Sciences, Sciences Sciences at Escola Secundária Quinta das FloresDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Universidade de Coimbra
English, Spanish, French, Portuguese
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Github Skills (61)
google-assistant9
bots9
dialogue-systems9
voice9
conversations9
bot-framework9
nlp8
watson8
dialogflow8
freeswitch8
chatbot8
conversational-ai8
natural-language-processing8
rasa8
nlu8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
teresalazar13/FairFedDrift
Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:7 PRs, 340 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 4 months
jeKnowledge/juniorempresa
Mar 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 10 months
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