Dr. Carlos Rodriguez Penagos is a researcher and expert in Language Technologies. Works within the BSC at the LT Unit to use HPC to exploit the possibilities of Natural Language Processing for Public and Private institutions, within the frameworks of the AINA and PlanTL  projects.

He has been senior researcher at tech transfer and consulting companies. He has a Ph.D. in Linguistics at the Pompeu Fabra University, with Computational Linguistics focus. His major areas of interest are Information Extraction, Text Mining, Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Engineering and Opinion Mining. He has taught and coordinated various international research projects at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and the National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), where he mined biomedical literature. He has been awarded various research grants by the National Science and Technology Council (Mexico) and the Generalitat de Catalunya Government (Spain).

• Big data analytics and visualization
• Innovative use of LT
• Supercomputing for Artificial Intelligence
• Biomedical Text Mining
• Natural Language Processing
• Avionics