About Me

My journey started a long long time ago, I can still remember ♫♪♪... in a place called Morelia, which is located in the central part of Mexico, some hours away from Mexico City and Guadalajara. This gorgeous place is where I grew up.

After high school, I enrolled at the Instituto Tecnológico de Morelia to pursue a bachelors degree on Computer Engineering. I enjoyed very much computer science and engineering, and started to learn languages, kind of as a hobby, and I really liked it, so I learned English, French, German, and had a few lessons of Chinese, Latin, Portuguese, and eventually some other.

After obtaining my bachelors degree I started working super hard but at some point I ended up in Germany pursuing a masters degree on Computational Linguistics at the Saarland University, which pretty much changed my life.

I got a MSc. degree on Computational Linguistics and then (ok, perhaps a little earlier) I realized that I was also interested on the psychological part of linguistics, so I started a PhD on Computational Psycholinguistics. And then, after a very long time, I finished and got my degree (yay!).

After spending a couple of years in the USA as a postdoc at the Applied Cognitive Science Lab of the Penn State University, and a covid-stay in Mexico with my family, I returned to the German lands, where the winters are long and the summers very hot.

Currently, I am a postdoc at the Language and Information Institute of the Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, where I am building computational models of human sentence processing, using Recurrent Neural Networks, and focusing on temporal dependencies.

A more detailed list of my professional interests is: computer science, linguistics, psycholinguistics, machine learning, artificial neural networks, explainable AI, information theory, programming, syntax, semantics, language production/generation, language understanding, among possibly others but these are the most important.

Things that I do outside of work: I like swimming, a lot. I also like dancing. I like music of pretty much all kinds and enjoy movies tarantino-style. I like to cook, I love traveling and enjoy having a beer with good company.