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Contact Information

Name Paloma Piot
Professional Title PhD Researcher in Natural Language Processing
Email palomapiot@udc.es

Professional Summary

PhD candidate and Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow working on computational methods for hate speech detection, multilingual NLP, and model explainability.

Experience

  • 2023 - 2026

    Spain

    PhD Researcher & Research Assistant
    IRlab - Universidade da Coruña
    • PhD thesis on hate speech detection

Education

  • 2023 - 2026

    A Coruña, Spain

    PhD
    Universidade da Coruña
    Natural Language Processing / Computer Science
    • Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow
    • Research on hate speech detection
  • 2018 - 2020

    A Coruña, Spain

    Master’s Degree
    Universidade da Coruña
    Computer Science
    • Thesis on early risk detection of mental disorders in social media
  • 2014 - 2018

    A Coruña, Spain

    Bachellor's Degree
    Universidade da Coruña
    Computer Science

Awards

  • 2021
    Best Open Source Project Award
    Universidad da Coruña

    Winner of the award for the best open-source university project in 2021.

Skills

Natural Language Processing (Advanced): Hate Speech Detection, Dataset Construction, Multilingual NLP, Benchmarking
Machine Learning (Advanced): LLMs, Model Distillation, Explainability, Debiasing

Languages

Spanish : Native speaker
Galician : Native speaker
English : Fluent (C1)

Projects

  • HYBRIDS

    European research project focused on hybrid intelligence to monitor, promote and analyse transformations in good democracy practices.

    • Human-in-the-loop hate speech detection
    • Multilingual and low-resource language focus
    • Ethical and explainable AI for content moderation