Scholar
Alexander Shvets
Google Scholar ID: BWiWj-sAAAAJ
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Citations & Impact
Citations
256
H-index
9
i10-index
9
Publications
20
Co-authors
44
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Author of 70 publications, h-index 10, 450+ citations, with papers in A/B-ranked conferences
- Participant in 20 R&D projects including dialogue agents, opinion-driven design, and disaster management
- Reviewer for top-tier conferences and journals (ACL, CoNLL, COLING, AAAI, IJCAI, EMNLP, Computational Intelligence)
- Involved in research proposal writing and dissemination at conferences and invited seminars
- Virtual Conference Lead Chair for COLING 2025
- Co-organizer of CheckThat! shared tasks at CLEF 2024 (Checkworthiness, Subjectivity, Persuasion, Roles, Authorities, Adversarial Robustness)
- Runner-up in feedback comment generation challenge, RIKEN, Tokyo (2022)
- Winner of Flow.ai hackathon on language generation at INLG, Tilburg (2018)
- Runner-up in €15K AI poem generation competition by Sberbank of Russia (2018)
Research Experience
- 2024–present: Head of Data for AI, Language Technologies Unit, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
- 2018–present: Lead Researcher (information extraction and natural language generation), NLP Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
- 2016–2018: Postdoctoral Researcher (NLP in economics of mass media), Department of Economics and Business, UPF
- 2012–2016: Applied Scientist (computational linguistics and information retrieval), Technologies for Systems Analysis LLC, Moscow
- 2011–2016: Researcher and Ph.D. candidate, Computational Linguistics Lab, Russian Academy of Sciences (national scholarship for excellent research)
- 2010: Visiting Researcher, Ulm University, Germany
- 2009–2011: Junior Researcher, Siberian Federal University, Russia
