Carlos Daniel Hernandez Mena

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Biography

He earned his degree in Communications and Electronics Engineering from the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) in Mexico City. He later pursued a Master of Engineering in Computer Engineering at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), where he also completed his Ph.D. in Digital Signal Processing, specializing in Automatic Speech Recognition. In 2019, he began a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Linguistics & Language Technology (ILLT) at the University of Malta. In 2021, he joined the University of Reykjavík as a postdoctoral researcher at the Language and Voice Lab (LVL). In 2023, he moved to the Barcelona Supercomputing Center as a research engineer. His primary research interests include Automatic Speech Recognition for minority languages, corpus curation and creation, and applied phonetics.

Education

- 2021 - 2023. Postdoc.

Research Scientist at Reykjavík University.

- 2019 - 2021. Postdoc.

Research Support Officer III at The University of Malta.

- 2011 - 2018. PhD Degree.

Digital Signal Processing at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).

- 2007 - 2010. Master's Degree.

Computer Engineering at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).

- 2001 - 2005. Engineer Degree.

Communications and Electronics Engineering at Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), México.

Research

My main research interests include, but are not limited to, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Datasets Creation, Datasets Curation and Applied Linguistics.

Memberships

- Member of the Speech Team of the Languges Technologies Unit (LTU) of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).

- Member of the Laboratory L52+ of the Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas (IIMAS) of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).

https://l52mas.gitlab.io/members/carlos-mena/
 
- Founder of the CIEMPIESS-UNAM Project
https://ciempiess.org/about
https://huggingface.co/ciempiess
 

Qualifications

Throughout my career, I have worked with various ASR systems such as: CMU-Spinx, HTK, Kaldi, Nvidia-NeMo, Wav2Vec, Whisper.

I am also proficient in programming microcontrollers and digital signal processors (DSPs) in both assembly language and C/C++.

Teaching

- 2008 - 2019. Microcontrollers Course.

I taught PIC Microcontrollers in C and assembly language for 10 years at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) as a Interim Professor.