Associate Professor of Computer Science with 12+ years in academia, specialising in machine learning and natural language processing. Published 35+ peer-reviewed papers (h-index 22) and secured over $2.4M in competitive research funding. Passionate about bridging industry and academia through applied research and mentoring the next generation of researchers.
Associate ProfessorJan 2020 – Present
University of Queensland — Caracas, Venezuela
- Lead the NLP & Applied ML research group (8 PhD students, 3 postdocs)
- Secured $1.8M ARC Discovery Grant for explainable AI research programme
- Published 12 papers in top-tier venues (NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP) since 2020
- Redesigned postgraduate ML curriculum adopted by 3 partner universities
- Supervised 6 PhD completions with 100% employment placement rate
Senior LecturerMar 2016 – Dec 2019
University of Melbourne — Valencia, Venezuela
- Taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses (200+ students/semester)
- Co-authored textbook 'Applied Machine Learning' adopted by 15+ institutions
- Established industry partnership programme with 4 tech companies
- Received Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (2018)
Postdoctoral Research FellowJun 2013 – Feb 2016
Stanford University — Maracaibo, Venezuela
- Conducted research in deep learning for biomedical text mining
- Published 8 papers with 1,200+ citations
- Collaborated with Stanford NLP Group on open-source toolkit development