Working papers · speech, health & trustworthy AIVigo, 2026

About

I work on speech and language technology, with a focus on what the voice can tell us about health and on keeping AI systems that listen to people safe. I combine academic research with building systems that run in production.

  1. NowExternal advisor, Balidea: agentic AI systems for the Galician Health Service (SERGAS).
  2. IndustryBahía Software: delivered the voice classifier for the COPERIA screening platform.
  3. 2021 – 2022Galician language representative in European Language Equality (ELE), the EU-funded project of 52 partners that set the roadmap to digital language equality in Europe by 2030 for the European Commission. Author of the Language Report for Galician.
  4. 2020 – nowPhD candidate, Multimedia Technologies Group (GTM), atlanTTic Research Center, Universidade de Vigo. PhD Programme in Information and Communications Technology. Voice biomarkers for respiratory and mental health; the VisIA project on suicide-risk detection.
  5. 2017 – 2020Researcher, Images and Signals, Centro de Aplicaciones de Tecnologías de Avanzada (CENATAV), Havana. Robust speech recognition, data augmentation and spoken term detection; ALBAYZIN evaluations.

Doctoral thesis

Clinical Screening from Voice via Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of Audio Transformers. Supervised by Carmen García-Mateo and Laura Docío-Fernández, Universidade de Vigo. Expected defence: December 2026.