CV
Education
- Ph.D in Computer Science & Linguistics, Interdisciplinary Doctoral School, University of Warsaw, 2025 (expected)
- M.S. in Computational Logic, Technical University of Madrid, 2011
- B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering, Universidad del Valle, La Paz, 2001
Work experience
Research Scholar
Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences (IMPAN), Warsaw, Poland
Oct. 2021 – Sep. 2024
- Scholarship-funded research position focusing on deep learning and Python programming.
Software Developer
San Calixto Observatory, La Paz, Bolivia
Oct. 2017 – Jun. 2018
- Designed and developed the “Boletín Sísmico” system, including database (MySQL), backend logic, and user interface using Python.
Researcher
University of Kassel, Formal Methods and Software Verification Group, Kassel, Germany
Sep. 2011 – Jul. 2014
- Full-time research position focused on model checking and programming in OCaml.
Research Scholar
Technical University of Madrid, COSTA Research Group, Madrid, Spain
Nov. 2009 – Feb. 2011
- Scholarship-funded research position focused on programming in Prolog.
Publications
Manuel Vargas Guzmán, Jakub Szymanik, and Maciej Malicki (2024). "Testing the limits of logical reasoning in neural and hybrid models." Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL. Pages 2267–2279.
Manuel Vargas Guzmán, Maria Boritchev, Jakub Szymanik, and Maciej Malicki. (2022). "Compositionality in a simple corpus." Journées Jointes des Groupements de Recherche Linguistique Informatique, Formelle et de Terrain (LIFT) et Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL). Pages 55-63.
Aleksander Leczkowski, Justyna Grudzińska, Manuel Vargas Guzmán, Aleksander Wawer, and Aleksandra Siemieniuk. (2022). "Prepositions Matter in Quantifier Scope Disambiguation." 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Pages 3960–3970.
Martin Lange, Etienne Lozes, and Manuel Vargas Guzmán. (2014). "Model-checking process equivalences." Theoretical Computer Science. 560(3). Pages 326-347.
Martin Lange, Etienne Lozes, and Manuel Vargas Guzmán. (2012). "Model-Checking Process Equivalences." Games, Automata, Logic and Formal Verification (GandALF). Pages 43-56.
Talks
February 10, 2025
Talk at 33rd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic - Workshop on Learning and Logic (LeaLog@CSL 2025), Amsterdam Science Park, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
June 13, 2024
Conference proceedings at 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Online (Virtual Poster), Mexico City, Mexico
July 31, 2023
Talk at 34th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Teaching