Dr Fermín Moscoso del Prado Martín

Fermín Moscoso del Prado’s teaching and research expertise span a variety of areas including computational linguistics, mathematical linguistics, artificial intelligence, psycholinguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and information theory and statistics. He is particularly interested in the computational structure of human language from all possible perspectives, as well as in more general topics in artificial intelligence, such as explainable AI.

Academic interests

Fermín Moscoso del Prado’s academic interests include:  

• Computational Linguistics
• Cognitive Neuroscience of Language
• Mathematical Linguistics
• Artificial Intelligence 
• Information Theory and Statistics 
• Causality and Time Series Analysis.

Degrees obtained

• MEng (Computer Engineering), Technical University of Madrid, Spain. 
• PhD (Linguistics), Radboud University, The Netherlands. 

Awards and prizes

• Marie Curie Fellowship (2004). 
• Outstanding Paper (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2016). 
• Distinguished Paper (European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020). 

Biography

Fermín Moscoso del Prado is a computational linguist and cognitive scientist. He is an Associate Professor of Computational Linguistics in the Department of Computer Science and Technology. He has previously held academic appointments at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, the Medical Research Council, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and at Radboud University. He has also directed AI and NLP labs in industry.

Other interests

Sailing, politics.