I am Juan Vásquez (he/him), a second-year PhD student in Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder. I am being supervised by Dr. Maria L. Pacheco and Dr. Alexis Palmer.
I am part of BLAST and LECS, where I am currently working on neurosymbolic approaches to NLP. Our goal is to combine symbolic rules and methods with neural architectures to take advantage of the modeling capabilities displayed by both paradigms, and create more robust, efficient and explainable NLP models.
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
Introduction to Natural Language Processing with Python II
Facultad de Ingeniería (Faculty of Engineering), UNAM
March - July
Main instructor
Materials created for the course available here (in Spanish)
2021
Introduction to Natural Language Processing with Python I
Facultad de Ingeniería (Faculty of Engineering), UNAM
Sept - June
Main instructor
Materials created for the course available here (in Spanish)
other work
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 :)