Alejandro Vaca Serrano

Alejandro Vaca Serrano is the CEO & Founder of LenguajeNatural.AI, a company at the forefront of natural language processing and Generative AI. He is the creator of nlpboost, a library designed for the automatic training, optimization, and benchmarking of Transformer models, now rebranded as autotransformers.

He was awarded the Best Poster Presentation Award at NAACL 2022, the 1st Prize at the SomosNLP Hackathon 2022, and the 1st Prize at the EXIST22 competition during Iberlef 2022. As the main author of RigoBERTa, a state-of-the-art language model for Spanish, he has led the development of subsequent, unpublished evolutions like RigoBERTa 2.0 and RigoCHAT.

In 2021, he earned the Best Data Scientist Award at the SpainAI Hackathon, securing 1st place in the Computer Vision Challenge and the Prescriptive Analytics: Time Series category. He also took 3rd place in the NLP Challenge at the same event. Additionally, in 2020, he won the 1st Prize at the Minsait Land Classification challenge during the Cajamar UniversityHack.

Corporate Experience

• CEO & Founder – LenguajeNatural.AI, 2024 - Present

• Senior Data Scientist – IIC, 2019 - 2024

Academic Experience

• Adjunct Professor – IE, 2022 - Present

• Professor- AFI Escuela de Finanzas, 2022 - Present

• Professor – Universidad Europea, 2024 - Present

• Professor – Datahack, 2022 - Present

Academic Background

• Masters in data science and Big Data – AFI Escuela de Finanzas, 2019

• Business Administration – CUNEF, 2018