Emilio Villa Cueva
@evllcv
PhD @ mbzuai. social intelligence, multimodality, & multilinguality
🔥 Llega la IV edición del #HackathonSomosNLP 2025. Vamos a alinear los #LLMs con la cultura de los países de LATAM y la Península Ibérica. Anímate a participar, a dar una keynote, a patrocinar el evento o a apoyarnos con difusión. ¡Contamos contigo! 🚀 somosnlp.org/hackathon
It's today! Two chances to hear @Davidromogr present CVQA @NeurIPSConf: oral session 4A at 3:50 in East meeting rooms 1-3 And poster session 4 West, West Ballroom A-D, 4:30-7:30pm. I'll be there and happy to talk about this and any other research going on in my group. CU there!
Very happy to share this!🙌🏼
🎉 @evllcv former @nlp_cimat student, won 2nd place in the 2024 Best MSc Thesis in AI by @smia_mx! Supervised by @apastorlm & @FerdotSV (pictured), his NLP thesis led to 5 publications, including a regular one at #NAACL2024 and top places at PAN@CLEF2023 & PoliticEs@IberLEF2022.
🔥 Presentamos #LaLeadeboard, la primera leaderboard open-source para evaluar automáticamente #LLM en las variedades del español y lenguas oficiales de España y LATAM. huggingface.co/spaces/la-lead…
🎉Happy to share our recent collaborative effort on building a culturally diverse, multilingual visual QA dataset! CVQA consists of over 9,000 questions across 28 countries, covering 26 languages (with more to be added!) 🌐cvqa-benchmark.org 📜arxiv.org/pdf/2406.05967
so proud to have been part of this lab and really grateful for the awesome mentors i got to learn from! 🤘🏽
🎉 Today, Emilio Villa successfully defended his master's thesis in CS at CIMAT. This thesis is the first at CIMAT in the format of a compendium of articles and includes three papers from prestigious forums in NLP: IberLef@SEPLN, PAN@CLEF, and NAACL. Congratulations, Emilio!👏📚
Yesterday at the #NAACL2024 social event #MexicoCity
The preprint of our Cross-lingual Text Classification paper was published a few days ago! 🎉 Check it out here: arxiv.org/pdf/2404.02452. Hope you find our work interesting! #NAACL2024 #NLP #AI
@RiTUAL_Lab @mbzuai is growing! I'm so excited to work with this amazing group of people. I threw them a Mexican Iftar: mole, rice, chipotle pasta, guacamole, and Mexican sweets. Love the international diversity: 🇲🇽🇦🇪🇵🇰🇮🇩 #nlproc
After a 6-month stay at @MBZUAI with @thamar_solorio, Emilio Villa's (@evllcv) Cross-lingual Text Classification paper, co-authored with @apastorlm & @FerdotSV from @nlp_cimat @cimatoficial , has been accepted into #NAACL2024 Main Conference! 🚀 #NLP #AI Congratulations!