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Oct 28, 2026 Presented “Artificial Intelligence and Mental Health: What Can Social Media Tell Us?” with Anxo Pérez Vila at the Faculty of Computer Science, Universidade da Coruña, as part of 12th Healthy October programme.
Oct 22, 2026 Served as a mentor at Datathon Justicia 2026 on 21–22 October, supporting the Childhood and Youth challenge.
Sep 25, 2026 Participated in G-Night / European Researchers’ Night, contributing to science outreach at Universidade da Coruña.
Jul 24, 2026 Two papers this July: “Improving clinical reliability of LLM reasoning for depression assessment via structured generation and GRPO” in Science Progress, and “Learning Evidence of Depression Symptoms via Prompt Induction” at SIGIR 2026 in Melbourne, Australia.
May 19, 2026 Gave an invited talk, “Explainable AI for Depression Symptom Detection on Social Media,” at International University of La Rioja (UNIR), presenting explainable AI for depression symptom detection and the MindWell conversational agent.
Feb 13, 2026 Presented “Explainable depression symptom detection in social media” at the 2nd Symposium on Mental Health and Artificial Intelligence, Université de Caen Normandie, France.
Nov 12, 2025 Presented ReDSM5, our new Reddit dataset for DSM-5 depression detection, at CIKM 2025 in Seoul, South Korea. Also published a new paper in Online Social Networks and Media on modeling depression language with relevance-based statistical models.
Oct 01, 2025 Started a three-month research stay (Oct-Dec 2025) with the Natural Language Processing Group at the University of Sheffield, hosted by Dr. Xi Wang.
Jul 15, 2025 Presented “Towards Explainable and Safe Systems for Health Data” at the SIGIR 2025 Doctoral Consortium in Padua, Italy.
Jul 11, 2025 Attended the 16th European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2025), hosted by the University of Wolverhampton, UK.
Apr 08, 2025 Presented MindWell, a demo of our open-source depression-screening chatbot, at ECIR 2025 in Lucca, Italy.
Feb 26, 2025 Awarded the Extraordinary Master’s Award by Universidade da Coruña for the 2023/2024 Máster Universitario en Enxeñaría Informática cohort.
Oct 18, 2024 Spain’s third most widely read general newspaper publishes about our participation at VII XoveTIC [ES] [link]
Dec 29, 2023 GCiencia, a digital newspaper for the promotion of scientific and technological knowledge, publishes an article about our work in adapting LLMs for underrepresented languages [GL] [link]
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