Fernando Balbachan

Fernando Balbachan

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RAG, GenAI & AgenticAI Specialist - NLP, Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics
Buenos Aires F.D., Argentina

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  • JPMorganChase
    LLM/SLM Specialist
    JPMorganChase
    Jun 2025 - Current (1 year)
    LangraphStudio-based AgenticAI, AWS Bedrock GenAI platform
  • ITTI
    NLP Expert
    ITTI
    Sep 2024 - Apr 2025 (8 months)
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    NLP Specialist
    CHATCENTER
    Jan 2024 - Jul 2024 (7 months)
    Prompt Engineering, RAG pipelines, Agentic AI, Few-shot learning text classification for WhatsApp-based virtual assistants
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    Senior NLP Specialist (Contractor)
    etermax AI Labs
    Oct 2023 - Dec 2023 (3 months)
    Research and Development of LLM-based models for NER, dataset handling and benchmarking. Few-shot learning NER via spaCy-LLM for notary document pipeline, relation-extraction, event-extraction
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    NLP Senior Consultant (2 periods)
    Lexalytics an InMoment Company
    Jul 2022 - Jun 2024 (2 years)
    LLM-based Agentic and Gen AI Collaborate with Head of Linguistics in developing and curating NLP language-specific resources Understanding Lexalytics' NLU engine architecture: Salience, with focus on customer-oriented content
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    External NLP Consultant
    MeaningCloud
    Dec 2017 - Mar 2018 (4 months)
  • N
    Founder & CEO
    Natural Tech
    Nov 2014 - Apr 2022 (7 years 6 months)
    State-of-the-art in NLP, NLU & NLG Understanding Natural Language the way we do_
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    Co Founder
    Tecnolecto Group
    Jan 2013 - Nov 2014 (1 year 11 months)
    We are a group of Computational Linguists from Argentina working in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). We have designed, developed and implemented solutions and algorithms for Information Retrieval, Named-Entity Recognition and Classification (NERC), Sentiment Analysis, Machine Learning and other tasks in this field. We have worked for institutions such as Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires (in the area of Health Informatics), as well as for companies in Argentina and from abroad. Our projects deal mostly with Spanish, Portuguese and English unstructured data.
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    Senior Computational Linguist
    Keepcon
    Jan 2012 - Apr 2013 (1 year 4 months)
  • Verizon Business
    Technical Writer
    Verizon Business
    Jan 2006 - Dec 2007 (2 years)
  • Universidad de Buenos Aires
    Professor
    Universidad de Buenos Aires
    Aug 2001 - Current (24 years 10 months)
    Computational Linguistics
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    Documentation & Training Coordinator
    Core Security Inc
    Jan 2000 - Dec 2003 (4 years)
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  • Universidad de Buenos Aires
    Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D, Computational Linguistics
    Universidad de Buenos Aires
    Jan 2009 - Dec 2014 (6 years)
  • Indiana University Bloomington
    Master of Arts (M.A, Computational Linguistics
    Indiana University Bloomington
    Jan 2004 - Dec 2006 (3 years)
  • Universidad de Buenos Aires
    Bachelor of Arts (B.A, Linguistics
    Universidad de Buenos Aires
    Jan 1993 - Dec 1999 (7 years)
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    Natural Tech - Products
    NaturalTech is a technology company with a specific goal: make computers understand natural language the way native speakers do. For this purpose, we use our expertise in linguistics and natural language understanding to generate disruptive and innovative technology and products for several industries that handle large amounts of unstructured information from spanish, portuguese and english texts. In recent years, we have developed SentiLecto, our flagship NLU engine on which TecnoNews and SentiAnswer are built. Our products can be integrated into a thorough NLP pipeline to enable the creation of virtual assistants, provide social media monitoring services, perform automated text summarization and content generation, among many other capab
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    HackLabs Challenge 2014
    Hacks Hackers BA
    Aug 2014
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    Graduated Cum Laude
    Universidad de Buenos Aires UBA Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
    Jul 2002
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    Best GPA in Argentina for B.A. in Linguistics
    Academia Argentina de Letras
    Nov 2000
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    Google Scholar
    Google Index
    Sep 2023
    All my academic papers and citations
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    Podcast: modelos-de-lenguaje-chatgp-y-linguistica
    Diego Basch
    Feb 2023
    Not just another and predictable chat about #ChatGPT , the #Skynet syndrome and more stuff :) Thanks @DiegoBasch for the nice talk!
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    Deep Learning-based Natural Language Understanding Models and aPrototype GPT-2 Deployment Fine-Tuned for a Specific Natu
    Universidad Nacional de Cuyo Argentina
    Dec 2021
    Since the year 2013 on, connecctionist paradigm in Natural Language Processing (NLP) has been reborn in academic scenarios by means of new architectures to be adopted later by the software industry (appealing to enormous large computing power) as a truly algoritmic revolution known as Deep Learning. Several models have been offered in a speedy race in order to obtain metrics that get close to the state-of-the-art level for general domain NLP tasks, according to the most used standards (BLEU… Mostrar más
  • Universidad de Buenos Aires
    PhD Thesis dissertation
    Universidad de Buenos Aires
    Jul 2014
    Among statistical models for Natural Language Processing (NLP) approaches, clustering techniques have turned of interest to both computational linguistics and psycholinguistics, as a plausible solution on how a grammar can be acquired completely from scratch (from a tabula rasa). We propose this current research as one of the first systematic clustering experiments on large corpora in Spanish, which presents substantial improvements with respect to previous work (Redington et al.… Mostrar más