I’m a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Copenhagen working on multimodal models for video understanding and NLP. I completed my Ph.D. in NLP at The University of Sheffield under the supervision of Professor Nikos Aletras. Previously, I obtained an MSc in Computer Science from Sheffield University and a BSc in Computer Engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. I worked as a Research Associate at SheffieldNLP group at The University of Sheffield and as an Applied Scientist intern at Amazon with the Alexa Shopping Science team based in London.

My research interests are natural language processing, vision-and-language modeling, and computational social science.

In my free time, I enjoy yoga and pilates.

I am passionate about mentoring students, particularly those from Latin America, though I’m happy to help anyone. If you’re a student seeking guidance on your CV, applications for MSc. or Ph.D. programs, or simply want to chat about the Ph.D. experience or related topics, feel free to reach out via email—I’d be glad to help!

Email: davi@di.ku.dk

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News

• Jan 2025 Teaching NLP topics at the University of Copenhagen Deep Learning
• Oct 2024 Visiting CLASP, University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪. I will give a talk on multimodal models for computational social science.
• Sep 2024 Attending DisAI Summer School in Bratislava 🇸🇰, and teaching a class at Delve on Multimodal Natural Language Processing.
• Aug 2024 Enjoying the olympics in Paris! 🎾 🤸 🇫🇷
• Jul 2024 In Sheffield attending my PhD graduation! 🎓