Academic Information

- Ph.D. in Computer Science (2006)
Rey Juan Carlos University (URJC).
Doctoral programme: Computational Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, UPM).
PhD thesis title: "Self-contained Representation of HTML Documents: a proposal based on Heuristic Combinations of Criteria" PhD dissertation (in Spanish)

I successfully defended my PhD thesis on May 16th, 2006 in Madrid. The reviewing committee included the following members:

    - Manuel Palomar (Universitat d'Alacant, UA), president.
    - Horacio Rodríguez (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, UPC), president.
    - Julio Gonzalo (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, UNED)
    - Manuel de Buenaga (European University of Madrid, UEM)
    - Holger Billhardt (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, URJC), secretary.

Extraordinary Doctoral Award from the Department of Signal Theory and Communications and Telematic Systems and Computing (URJC), corresponding to Doctoral Theses read during the 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 academic years.

- M.Sc. degree in Telecommunication Engineering (2004)
Programme: Computational Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
ETSI de Telecomunicaciones, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM).

- M.Sc. degree in Theoretical Physics (1999)
Bachelor of Science, Physics Section
Faculty of Sciences, Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM)

Academic positions held

Visiting Faculty at Queens College
Sept 2012 - Dic 2012

Full Time Lecturer at URJC.
September 2006 - May 2007

Teaching Assistant at URJC.
October 2001 - September 2006

Research activity

My research activity began as a pre-doctoral fellow at the CSIC, and then developed at the URJC and UNED universities. I completed a post-doctoral stay as Visiting Faculty in the BLENDER group at Queens College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY).

My research interests focus on the study and proposal of text representation models for automatic text processing. I am currently focused on the area of distributional semantic composition and semantic similarity estimation in vector and probabilistic spaces, and within the context of the neural language models.

I have supervised a total of 4 PhD theses (2 of them awarded with Extraordinary Prize and 3 with International Mention). I have also supervised a total of 20 Master's Thesis in different research Master's Degrees at the UNED.

I am co-author of more than 80 publications in the field. In these publications I have shared authorship with more than 50 researchers from four countries (Spain, USA, Israel and Finland) and 13 universities and research centres (CSIC, URJC, UNED, UAM, UPM, UEM, UC3M, USC, UPV-EHU, UPC, CUNY, University of Helsinki, University of North Carolina).

Among my most relevant publications include 21 articles in JCR indexed journals, 15 articles published in conferences included in the main conference rankings in the field, as well as 4 papers awarded with the Best Paper Award. In addition, I have published 7 book chapters and 15 articles in the journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, a journal with the FECYT quality seal for Spanish scientific journals and a reference in the area of Natural Language Processing in Spanish.

Regarding my participation in competitive research projects, I have participted in 10 National Plan projects (one of them as PI), 3 ERC projects, as well as 11 other projects funded by different administrations or companies (being PI in two of them), in which I have successfully experienced the transfer of research to the productive sector.

Professional experience

- Researcher at the Instituto de Automática Industrial at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IAI-CSIC).
January 2000 - October 2001