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University of Edinburgh
Arturo Ocevay has PhD studies from the Machine Translation and Edinburgh Natural Language Processing groups at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on low-resource machine translation and NLP. Arturo is interested in integrating linguistic typology knowledge with NLP and developing new corpora for under-represented languages.
PUCP
Erasmo holds a Master's degree in Engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, where he is currently a professor of Natural Language Processing. He is a specialist in the computational processing of Peruvian indigenous languages and a member of the Artificial Intelligence Group at PUCP.
Universidad Nacional Intercultural de la Amazonía
Jorge Sato is a professor at the National Intercultural University of the Amazon, with a Bachelor's degree in Primary Education from the National University of Ucayali, and a Master's degree in Information and Communication Technologies in Education and Training from the Autonomous University of Madrid. He also holds diplomas in Public Management and Economic Valuation of Natural Heritage, among other courses.
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Frederic is a PhD student at the group for "Computer-Assisted Language Comparison" and mainly studies the history and diversity of South American Languages. His main research topic is the history of the South American Pano-Takana language family and its relation with other language families of the area.
Universidad de Harvard
Damian Blasi is an ICREA Research Professor and associate professor at the Center for Brain and Cognition at Pompeu Fabra University. His research covers topics ranging from the emergence of new languages, pervasive form-meaning associations, the adaptability of speech sound systems, and the prehistory of worldwide linguistic diversity.
MIT
Roger Levy directs the Computational Psycholinguistics Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Levy is Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. This work furthers our understanding of the cognitive underpinning of language processing and acquisition, and helps us design models and algorithms that will allow machines to process human language.
PUCP
María Fernández-Flecha holds a PhD in Language Intervention from the Complutense University of Madrid. She is currently an associate professor in the Department of Humanities at PUCP. Her main research line is the acquisition of native languages, with a particular emphasis on communicative development in general and linguistic development in particular, specifically in Peruvian Spanish.
Universidad de Oxford
Asifa Majid is Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Oxford. Majid investigates the relationship between language, culture, and thought by conducting studies with adults in different cultures and sub-cultures, and by tracing how concepts develop over a child’s lifetime in diverse cultural contexts.
Universidad de California en San Diego
Rafael Núñez is a professor of cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego. From the perspective of the embodied mind, he investigates high-level cognitive phenomena such as conceptual systems, abstraction, and inference mechanisms, and how they manifest naturally through largely unconscious bodily/mental activities (for example, gestures).
Universität Zürich
Sabine Stoll is head of the Psycholinguistics Laboratory at the Department of Comparative Linguistics, University of Zurich. Sabine 's research focus is first language acquisition from a comparative perspective, linguistic typology and morphology. Her current main project is on learning mechanism in typologically diverse languages.
Universidad de Leiden
Rik van Gijn is an associate professor at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. His interests focus on the indigenous languages of (western) South America, and in particular on the question of the historical development of the stunning linguistic diversity there.