Principal Investigators
Dr. Edwin Puertas
Principal Investigator
Director of the Ph.D. and Master’s Programs in Engineering at Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar and is an active member of the Artificial Intelligence Standards Committee.
Dr. Juan Carlos Martinez
Principal Investigator
Senior Researcher at VerbaNexAI Lab. Dr. Martinez has extensive experience directing research focused on predictive analytics, machine learning modeling, and NLP algorithms.
Dr. Jairo Serrano Castañeda
Principal Investigator
Key faculty member leading the development of advanced neural network architectures and pushing boundaries in computational linguistics.
Graduate Researchers
Melissa Moreno
Graduate Researcher
Researching semantic matching of multilingual job titles and enhancing vocational guidance with machine learning models.
Andrea Menco Tovar
Graduate Researcher
Specializing in Vision Transformers, multispecies identification in vegetation images, and automated detection of food hazards using NLP.
Anderson Morillo
Graduate Researcher
Developing multilayer AI models for semantic relationship detection and working on financial targeted sentiment analysis.
Jeison D. Jimenez
Graduate Researcher
Focusing on Multi-Model LLM approaches for complex tasks like onomastic wordplay translation and human-AI collaborative text classification.
Daniel Peña Gnecco
Graduate Researcher
Working on Hybrid Re-ranking for Biomedical Entity Linking using SapBERT Embeddings and enhancing entity-aware machine translation frameworks.
Research Assistants & Staff
Andres Quinones
Research Assistant & Web Master
Systems engineer at the mayor's office of Cartagena, with experience in web development, database management, and system administration. Master student in engineering (AI, NLP).