I'm a PhD in Computer Science and researcher at the Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar, based in Cartagena, Colombia. My work sits at the intersection of Natural Language Processing, phonetics, and AI-driven software architecture.
- 🔬 Research focus: Phonesthemes, multilingual affective computing, and language models
- 🏛️ Affiliated researcher at UTB — registered in Colombia's Scienti/MinCiencias system
- 🌎 Passionate about NLP for Spanish and low-resource languages
- 📬 Reach me at [email protected]
I lead VerbaNexAI Lab at UTB — a research group exploring the convergence of NLP, AI, and computational linguistics. Our work spans shared tasks (IberLEF, SemEval, CLEF), hate speech detection, computer vision, and applied AI for Spanish-speaking communities.
| Research Line | Featured Repo |
|---|---|
| 🗣️ NLP & Hate Speech | PhoneticHateSpeech |
| 🏆 Shared Tasks | IberLEF2025 · CLEF2025 · SemEval2025 |
| 👁️ Computer Vision | Bacteria-morphology-classification |
| 📊 Applied AI | SmartlinkAnalytics · TPM |
| Project | Description | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| PhonesthemsLM | Language model for phonestheme analysis | Python · Jupyter |
| PhoneticAffectIntensityMultilingual | Multilingual phonetic affect intensity tool | Python · NLP |
Full list on Google Scholar · ORCID · Scienti MinCiencias
- 📄 A sustainability maturity model for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) based on a data analytics evaluation approach — Journal, 2021 · DOI
- 📄 Detection of Sociolinguistic Features in Digital Social Networks for the Detection of Communities — Journal, 2021 · DOI
- 📄 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Strategies of COVID-19 Vaccination in Colombia: Comparison of High-Risk Prioritization and No Prioritization Strategies With the Absence of a Vaccination Plan — Journal, 2022 · DOI