Team

Manuel Herranz
A founding member of TAUS and data sharing initiatives, Manuel has focused on consulting and development of MT technologies with real practical applications and provides true value to clients. His ongoing research and development made PangeaMT’s initial statistical offerings to become based on neural networks, adaptive technologies, pattern recognition and deep learning applied to Natural Language Processing supplying cutting-edge solutions at institutional and government level in Europe, the US and Japan.
Manuel is also committed to supporting NGO actions like the Malima Project for primary education in Africa, as well as Translators Without Borders, medical research into rare diseases and sports events.

Amando Estela
He has a background in internet Projects, security and on-line distributed environments, distributed infrastructure management, building workflows and Document Management Systems.

Anna Fernández
She has worked as an external consultant for different companies in anonymization / GDPR, personal data and social networks, copyright and accessory services, e-Commerce and Forms of preventive and reactive protection (Enforcement).
She has participated in the drafting of the Framework Agreement on Data Sharing of the European Commission’s NEC-TM Project.

Laurent Bié
Soon after graduating, Laurent fell in love with the poetry of code and his life-long passion for software engineering was born. He has specialised in practically all computer languages for the last 15 years. “What I love most is to put into practice the research I do”, he says.
His most recent passion is how Artificial Intelligence will impact [positively] our lives and how it can enhance our capabilities, particularly in the language field and in general in most NLP disciplines such as knowledge management, NER, anonymization and machine translation.

Mercedes García
She has also taken specialized courses in neural networks, and on machine translation. Mercedes has also participated in courses on translation technologies and research on the translation process at the Copenhagen Business School. In addition, she has over 25 scientific publications in international journals and conferences and 166 citations in Google Scholar. Know more about her here.