Experience

Research Engineer, Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA)

University of Cambridge, UK

Research primarily focuses on:

  • Under-Resourced Languages
  • Digitally Disadvantaged Languages
  • Knowledge Graphs
  • Responsible AI
  • Web for all
  • Quechua languages

Programme Chair, SIMBig 2026 Shared Task on ASR and Language Resources for Indigenous Languages

SIMBig 2026, Arequipa, Peru

Responsibilities include:

  • Co-organised a shared task on speech recognition and language resources for Indigenous languages of South America, starting with Puno Quechua
  • Released the Puno Quechua datasets, test set and baselines, and coordinated the review of submissions
  • Brought together 35 registered teams from 14 countries across three tasks

Program Committee Member, AmericasNLP 2026

Sixth Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (ACL)

Quechua Language Teacher

Department of Linguistics, University of Innsbruck

Responsibilities include:

  • Designing and delivering a comprehensive introductory Quechua language course
  • Creating learning material, focusing on grammar, phonology, and morphosyntax
  • Managing course assessment, student projects, and a final written exam

Project Manager, Open Multilingual Speech

Mozilla Foundation

Responsibilities include:

  • Led community-driven efforts to collect and validate more than 15 hours of open-source speech data
  • Localizing and adapting Mozilla Common Voice platform for Quechua languages
  • Bridged technical and non-technical stakeholders to align to language preservation goals

Web Community Coordinator

Endangered Languages Project

Responsibilities include:

  • Facilitated knowledge-sharing between researchers and native speaker communities
  • Designed workflows to make language resources more accessible to non-technical users
  • Led Skill Share Sessions on Project Management, Grant writing, and Funding processes

Data Consultant

Digital Science Center (DISC), University of Innsbruck, Austria

Responsibilities include:

  • Assist with the modelling and deployment of medieval mining text data
  • Support the assessment of data correctness for the Historical Mining Texts Project

The outcome enabled the identification of data modelling issues and prevented from representing inconsistent data.

E-learning Developer

Wikimedia Foundation

Responsibilities include:

  • Develop, implement, and localize the Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom program for the Spanish-speaking user group in Peru
  • Create and develop an e-learning course using the OpenEdX Learning Management System

The blended program reached 130 teachers, and the program materials were translated to the Quechua language.

E-learning Facilitator

Wikimedia Foundation, USA (Remote)

Responsibilities include:

  • Support the development of e-learning programs such as Training of Trainers. The program hosted +20 participants from different countries
  • Assist its smooth implementation and assessment.
  • Creat e-learning materials to present complex concepts of the free knowledge ecosystem to non-expert audiences.

Lecturer

Computer Science Department, Innsbruck University, Austria

Responsibilities include to teach groundbreaking subjects:

  • Knowledge graphs and Smart Data
  • Advance topics in computer science
  • Online communication and marketing
  • Programming methodology

Research Assistant

Semantic Technology Institute (STI), University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Responsibilities include:

  • Developed and implement data and knowledge management strategies
  • Research and develop a knowledge graph curation framework in order to assess the quality of knowledge graphs
  • Assist the development of the MindLab and WordLiftNG projects

The outcome highlighted the tasks; assessment, cleaning, and enrichment, which is described in the book: Knowledge Graphs: Methodologies, Tools, and Selected Use Cases.

Education

PhD in Computer Science (candidate)

Innsbruck University, Austria

Thesis on Knowledge Graph Quality Assessment. I researched the representation, curation, and assessment of knowledge graphs, e.g. data modelling, ontologies, knowledge representation, and knowledge curation.

MSc in Web Engineering

University of Oviedo, Spain

I specialized in Semantic Web technologies that can allow the representation, validation, and deployment of data on and off the web.

Courses included:

  • New Developments in Semantic Web
  • Languages and web standards
  • Ethical and legal aspect of the web
  • Direction and Management of web projects
  • Web content manager
  • Architecture and systems development E-Learning
  • Business models in electronic commerce and web

MSc in Digital Information Systems

University of Salamanca, Spain

I focused on the management, preservation, digitalization, and organization of digital resources. Furthermore, I did my internship at the GREDOS repository of the university of Salamanca.

Courses included:

  • Research in virtual environments and open science
  • Content management systems
  • Data science: social network analysis
  • Digital preservation
  • Description, representation and organisation of digital content
  • Digital information indexing and retrieval systems
  • Digital inclusion and sustainability

BSc in Systems Engineering

National University of Altiplano - Puno, Peru

I focused on implementing a web system for managing students and teachers data of the National University of the Altiplano of Puno.

Courses included:

  • Structure of data and algorithms
  • Technologies for application development
  • Planning and assessment of systems projects
  • Software engineering
  • Information systems
  • Quality in organizations and re-engineering
  • Distributed information systems
  • Implementation of information systems