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Tomás Aldana

Edinburgh, Scotland

About

I'm a PhD candidate in computational linguistics working on speech and language technology for low-resource languages — mainly Quechua and Guaraní. I build datasets together with the communities that speak them, then train models that don't need a datacenter to run. Most of my work is open source.

Education

PhD in Computational Linguistics

University of Edinburgh · 2022 – Present

MSc in Speech & Language Processing

University of Edinburgh · 2021 – 2022

Experience

Teaching Assistant, NLP Courses

University of Edinburgh · 2023 – Present

Freelance Localization Engineer

Self-employed · 2020 – 2021

Skills

PyTorch

Speech Recognition

Data Engineering

Interests

Chess

Field recording

Mountain biking

Demo portfolio — fictional persona, photo AI-generated

Tomás Aldana — Academic Website · Scilio