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GALO CASTILLO-LÓPEZ
Computer Scientist, France, Paris
gadacast@fiec.espol.edu.ec

I am a BSc. in Computer Science from Ecuador. Currently I am a Master of Science in Computer Science student, following the Artificial Intelligence track at Universite Paris-Saclay, France. I obtained my bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL), located in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

I worked as a Data Scientist at Claro Ecuador (América Móvil group), the largest Ecuadorian telecommunications company, from 2019 to 2021. During my undergraduate studies and later (2017-2020) I worked as a Research Assistant at the Big Data Research Group of ESPOL under the guidance of Prof. Carmen Vaca. Also, in 2018 I participated as a Software Engineering Intern at the Google Summer of Code program and implemented a web application module for SPDX, a project of The Linux Foundation.

Interests

  • Natural language processing
  • Machine learning for social good
  • Computational social sciences

Academia

Université Paris-Saclay
2021 - present
M.Sc. Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence track with focus in Natural Language Processing
Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral
2014 - 2019
B.Sc. Computer Science
Specialization in Big Data Analytics

News

  • I started my studies at the MSc. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence track, at Universite Paris-Saclay. , September 2021.
  • Worked as a volunteer at the LatinX in AI research workshop at NeurIPS 2020. , December 2020.
  • Won the first place at the Saturdays AI Guayaquil Demo Day. , February 2020.

Recent Publications

See my Google Scholar profile for the complete list.
A place to go: Locating damaged regions after natural disasters through mobile phone data, 2020, Annual International Symposium on Information Management and Big Data
Galo Castillo-López , María-Belén Guaranda , Fabricio Layedra , Carmen Vaca
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The good, the bad and the ugly: Workers profiling through clustering analysis, 2019, 2019 Sixth International Conference on eDemocracy & eGovernment (ICEDEG)
Pablo Estrada-Cedeño , Fabricio Layedra , Galo Castillo-López , Carmen Vaca
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The silence of the cantons: Estimating villages socioeconomic status through mobile phones data, 2019, 2019 Sixth International Conference on eDemocracy & eGovernment (ICEDEG)
Galo Castillo-López , Fabricio Layedra , Maria-Belen Guaranda , Paolo Lara , Carmen Vaca
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