Canada
arturoComputes [at] gmail [dot] com
👨💻 I'm a computer scientist specialized in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
I'm also
🗺 a traveler,
🍪 a cook,
🍲 an avid eater,
📷 a photographer,
🎧 a podcast listener,
💉 an unexpected translator, science-based public health information spreader & information-access-in-different-languages advocate,
🚲 a cyclist,
⚽ a soccer player,
👅 a polyglot 🇲🇽 🇨🇦 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇯🇵 🔜 🧏,
🎪 an event organizer,
👂 and a good listener
🐍 Python is what I mostly code in, but I have experience with shell scripting, MATLAB, LaTeX and some JavaScript
🖥 For projects I've used LLM APIs, HuggingFace, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, pandas, XGBoost and Jupyter/IPython
👉 You can read more about my background on LinkedIn
🕐 TL;DR: Before grad school, I was a Natural Language and Data Scientist at Awake Labs, a Speech Scientist at Nuance, a Research Assistant in TAGlab in the Computer Science department at the University of Toronto, and a Software Development intern at Psiphon
👨🎓 NAIST NLP master's student 2022-2024. Before, I did a full degree in computer science at the University of Toronto, as well as a psychology major and a linguistics minor. I've published some of my projects with Prof. Graeme Hirst on text classification in a medical setting, as well as with Prof. Taro Watanabe and colleagues on reframing and on Indigenous Languages educational resources.