Dr. Adrián Pastor López Monroy

Dr. Adrián Pastor López Monroy

Director Associate Professor at CIMAT-Gto

Dr. Adrián Pastor López Monroy obtained his Master's and Doctorate degrees in Computer Science from the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE, Mexico) in 2012 and 2017 respectively. In 2017, he received the award for the best doctoral thesis in Artificial Intelligence (AI) from the Mexican Society of AI. Subsequently, in 2017 and 2018, he was a Full-Time Associate Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Houston, Texas, USA. Currently, Dr. López Monroy is a Full-Time Research Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Center for Research in Mathematics (CIMAT, Mexico). His research areas include Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing, and since 2013 he has led participations in machine learning competitions in European forums such as the "Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum CLEF-PAN" and the "Iberian Language Evaluation Forum IberLEF", winning first place in various editions in Spain, England, France, and Greece. He is a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) and CONAHCyT in groups for artificial intelligence (e.g., Alianza-IA, RedICA), and language technologies (RedTTL). He currently has over 60 peer-reviewed publications in journals, conferences, and book chapters, as well as more than 1300 citations and an H-index of 19 in Google Scholar.