I am Juan Vásquez (he/him), a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder.
I am currently working on conversational analysis following the work of Dr. Justine Zhang.
During my master's (in AI), I worked on heteronormative language detection, and hate-speech detection in Mexican Spanish under the supervision of Dr. Gemma Bel Enguix and Dr. Karla Ramírez Pulido.
In my free time I enjoy playing J-RPGs, watching horror films and reading contemporary Latin-American and queer literature.
Contact
You can contact me via email at juan[at]vasqueza.com
→ 14th annual out in STEM (oSTEM) conference | Portland, Oregon; USA | October 17th - 20nd
→ Organizer | Queer in AI Workshop @ NAACL 2024 | Mexico City, Mexico | June 16th - 21st
→ Attending student | 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) | Mexico City, Mexico | June 16th - 21st
→ Program commitee member | XVI Mexican Congress of Artificial Intelligence (XVI Congreso Mexicano de Inteligencia Artificial) | Celaya, Mexico | June 3rd - 7th
2024
→ Organizer | 14th annual out in STEM (oSTEM) conference | Portland, Oregon; USA | October 17th - 20nd
→ Organizer | Queer in AI Workshop @ NAACL 2024 | Mexico City, Mexico | June 16th - 21st
→ Attending student | 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) | Mexico City, Mexico | June 16th - 21st
→ Program commitee member | XVI Mexican Congress of Artificial Intelligence (XVI Congreso Mexicano de Inteligencia Artificial) | Celaya, Mexico | June 3rd - 7th
2023
→ Attending student | The 34th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2023) | Ljubljana, Slovenia | July 31st - August 11st
→ Attending student | 13th Lisbon Machine Learning School | Lisbon, Portugal | July 14th - 20th
→ Keynote speaker - The State of NLP in Latin America | Queer in AI workshop @ The 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) | Toronto, Canada | July 9th
→ Attending student | 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) | Toronto, Canada | July 10th - 14th
→ Guest speaker - Hate speech detection using NLP techniques | Instituto de Investigaciones Matemáticas y en Sistemas (IIMAS), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). | Mexico City, Mexico | April 13th
2022
→ Program commitee member | The 21st Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI) | Monterrey, Mexico | October 24th - 20th
→ Presenter - Heterocorpus: Detección y mitigación del lenguaje heteronormado en inglés | Grupo de Ingeniería Lingüística (Language Engineering Group), UNAM | Mexico City, Mexico | September 29th
→ Presenter - HeteroCorpus: A Corpus for Heteronormative Language Detection | The 4th Workshop on Gender Bias for Natural Language Processing located at NAACL | Seattle, Washington; USA | July 15
→ Attending student | 1st Caltech Neurosymbolic Programming Summer School | Pasadena, California; USA | July 11st 13rd
2021
→ First place in the task Sentiment Analysis for Mexican Touristic Places | IberLEF 2021 | Tepic, Mexico | July 8th
→ Talk - Inteligencia Artificial Aplicada al Análisis de Sentimientos de Reseñas Online en Español (Applied Artificial Intelligence for Sentiment Analysis of Online Reviews in Spanish) | Grupo de Ingeniería Lingüística (Language Engineering Group) - internal seminar | Mexico City, Mexico | May 14th
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RESEARCHERS
these are some researchers whose work I follow closely, and that I find very cool/interesting. Check out their work if you want to learn more about various areas in Computer Science :)
these are some cool tools i use, and i think are worth checking out if they fit any of your needs.
→ command-line
espanso - it allows you to define your own text completions in a custom toml file. More advance features allow you to execute shell commands by just typing whatever string you define.
F2 - a CLI tool for batch renaming files and directories quickly and safely.
Stirling-PDF - a locally hosted app with tons of features to modify, edit, and export pdfs.
typst - a markup-based typsetting language designed to resolve LaTeX ambiguities, and with a simpler syntax.
→ python
uv - a super fast dependency, python version installer and manager. it is also a great way to manage your project environments (way better than virtualenv and poetry, IMO.)
→ LaTeX
detexify - a simple web/mac os app that takes as input a handwritten scrible, and returns the equivalent LaTeX command.