Jesús Germán Ortiz Barajas

Doctoral Student

About me
I am a PhD student at the Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Technology (INSAIT) where I am working on multimodal fact-checking supervised by Prof. Iryna Gurevych.
Previously, I was a Research Assistant at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), focusing on parameter-efficient fine-tuning techniques for Large Language Models (LLMs) under the guidance of Prof. Thamar Solorio.
I completed my MSc in Computer Science at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where I worked on paraphrase identification under the mentorship of Dr Gemma Bel-Engix.

Education

  • National Autonomous University of México (UNAM) – MSc in Computer Science, 2022
  • National Autonomous University of México (UNAM) – BEng in Computer Engineering, 2020

Relevant experience

  • Research assistant at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), January – October 2024
  • Research assistant at the Linguistic Engineering Group (GIL) from the National Autonomous University of México, January 2019 – September 2020

Publications
See my google scholar profile:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3FzuZasAAAAJ&hl

Awards

  • José Negrete Award 2023 for Best Master’s Thesis in an AI-Related Field, awarded by the Mexican Society of Artificial Intelligence (SMIA).

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