Galo Castillo-López
PhD candidate in NLP at Université Paris-Saclay
PhD candidate in NLP at Université Paris-Saclay
I am a doctoral researcher at Université Paris-Saclay, working at CEA. My research consists in modeling turn-taking management in spoken multi-party dialogue systems.
Previously, I interned at ALMAnaCH, the NLP group of Inria Paris. We studied multi-lingual transfer scenarios using encoder-only language models across Spanish variants for hate speech detection in social media.
Moreover, I worked as a data scientist at Claro, the largest Latin American telecommunications company, developing supervised models for optimizing internal operations at the Finance, Customer Service, and Marketing departments.
I also obtained a master's degree in Artificial Intelligence at Université Paris-Saclay.
October 2026: Our work Leveraging Turn-taking Dynamics for Intent Recognition in Multi-party Conversations was presented at EMNLP 2026 Industry Track.
March 2026: Our work How DDAIR you? Disambiguated Data Augmentation for Intent Recognition was presented at EACL 2026.
October 2025: Our work CoVA: LLM Data Augmentation to Enhance User-Defined Intents Recognition for Voice-Based Assistance in Collaborative XR Environments was presented at EuroXR 2025.
August 2025: Our work Intent Recognition and Out-of-Scope Detection using LLMs in Multi-party Conversations was presented at SIGDIAL 2025.