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Contact Information

Name Julen Etxaniz
Professional Title PhD Student in Language Analysis and Processing
Email juletxara@gmail.com
Location Manuel Lardizabal Ibilbidea, 1, Donostia, Gipuzkoa 20018

Professional Summary

PhD Student in Language Analysis and Processing at HiTZ Center IXA Group EHU. Working on Improving Language Models for Low-resource Languages.

Experience

  • 2023 - present

    Donostia, Spain

    PhD Student
    HiTZ Center IXA Group (EHU)
    Research on improving language models for low-resource languages
    • Large Language Models for Basque
    • Multilingual evaluation and benchmarks
    • Natural Language Processing

Education

  • 2023 - present

    Donostia, Spain

    PhD
    University of the Basque Country (EHU)
    Language Analysis and Processing
    • Working on Improving Language Models for Low-resource Languages
    • Research at HiTZ Basque Center for Language Technology
  • 2021 - 2022

    Donostia, Spain

    Master
    University of the Basque Country (EHU)
    Language Analysis and Processing
    • Thesis on Grounding Language Models for Compositional and Spatial Reasoning
  • 2017 - 2021

    Donostia, Spain

    Degree
    University of the Basque Country (EHU)
    Computer Engineering
    • Speciality in Software Engineering
    • Final project on ProMeta system

Awards

Skills

Research: Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Multilinguality
Programming: Python, R, Java, JavaScript, PHP, C
Web Development: Hugo, Jekyll, Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS, HTML, CSS

Languages

Basque : Native
Spanish : Native
English : Fluent (C1)

Interests

Natural Language Processing: Large Language Models, Multilingual NLP, Low-resource Languages
Machine Learning: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Transformers

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