Laura Vásquez-Rodríguez

Laura Vásquez-Rodríguez

Full Stack AI Engineer | NLP | LLMs | Machine Learning | Multilinguality

Awards

2026

Outstanding Reviewer Award

award EACL 2026, Annual Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · May 2026

Awarded for high-quality peer review contributions.

2022

TSAR-2022 Shared Task on Lexical Simplification

award Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR-2022), EMNLP 2022 · December 2022

Ranked second in Spanish and third in English among all participating teams with PromptLS, a prompt learning approach to lexical simplification.

2021

Associate Fellow, Advance HE (Higher Education Academy)

certification University of Manchester, United Kingdom · June 2021

Recognized for contributions to teaching and learning support in higher education, meeting UK professional standards.

2019

Kilburn Scholarship

scholarship University of Manchester, United Kingdom · December 2019

Competitive scholarship worth approximately £114,000, covering tuition fees and an annual stipend.

2018

Train the Trainers program

grant Intel, Team4Tech and CARE · December 2018

Selected as Costa Rica's national representative to support out-of-school girls in Malawi. The project contributed 945 volunteer hours from a team of 8 volunteers, and a $160,000 donation to local communities.

Winners of Wonder program

grant Intel Costa Rica · June 2018

Awarded a $5,000 grant for leading the Experimenting with Science and Technology STEM project.