I am Juan Vásquez (he/him), a first-year PhD student in CS at CU Boulder Colorado and I am being supervised by Dr. Maria L. Pacheco and Dr. Alexis Palmer. Also, I am part of BLAST, where I am currently working on neurosymbolic approaches that help computational social scientists find patterns in their data.
During my masters, I worked on heteronormative language detection, and hate-speech detection in Mexican Spanish under the supervision of Dr. Gemma Bel Enguix and Dr. Karla Ramírez Pulido.
In 2023, I worked as a consultant for the University of Arizona. I collaborated with Dr. Javier Osorio on automatic classification of news articles related to organized crime in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico.
In my free time I enjoy playing J-RPGs, watching horror films and reading contemporary latin-american and queer literature.
You can find my resume here.