PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Jose Camacho Collados

Also known as José Camacho-Collados

Jose Camacho Collados is an NLP researcher whose work spans multilingual semantic representations, social media NLP and language models. He coauthors an ACL paper on multilingual concept representation in 2015 and receives a Google PhD Fellowship at Sapienza in 2016. At Cardiff, he co-founds Cardiff NLP, publishes Embeddings in NLP with Taher Pilehvar, and coauthors TweetNLP for social media analysis. His NASARI paper receives the Artificial Intelligence Journal's 2023 Prominent Paper Award, and Cardiff promotes him to professor in August 2023. As of October 2026, he is a Cardiff professor and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, and a grant holder on Wellcome's SYLFAEN-PSY project for psychosis symptom measurement.

Born
1988

Years link to their sources.

Timeline

  1. 2015

    A multilingual concepts paper

    With Mohammad Taher Pilehvar and Roberto Navigli, he coauthors A Unified Multilingual Semantic Representation of Concepts at ACL in 2015.

  2. 2016

    A Google NLP PhD Fellowship

    Google names him a PhD Fellow in Natural Language Processing at Sapienza University of Rome in 2016. He studies at Sapienza's Linguistic Computing Laboratory, and his education includes an Erasmus Mundus master's in Natural Language Processing and Human Language Technology.

  3. 2020

    Founding Cardiff NLP

    In July 2020, he co-founds the Cardiff NLP group.

  4. 2020

    An NLP embeddings book

    With Taher Pilehvar, he publishes Embeddings in NLP in December 2020, a book about vector representations in natural language processing.

  5. 2022

    TweetNLP for social media

    He coauthors the 2022 TweetNLP paper, which presents an integrated platform for natural language processing on social media. It includes task-specific Transformer models, a Python library, an interactive demo and a tutorial.

  6. 2023

    A NASARI paper award

    The Artificial Intelligence Journal gives the 2023 Prominent Paper Award to NASARI, his 2016 work with Mohammad Taher Pilehvar and Roberto Navigli on multilingual concept and entity representations. In August 2023, Cardiff promotes him to Professor.

  7. 2025

    Testing LLMs on puns

    In 2025, he coauthors Pun Unintended: LLMs and the Illusion of Humor Understanding. The paper finds that subtle changes in puns can mislead LLMs, whose grasp of humor can remain shallow.

  8. As of October 2026

    Professor and SYLFAEN grant

    In 2026, Wellcome lists him among the grant holders for SYLFAEN-PSY, a project that uses large language models and multimodal data to create proxy measurements of psychotic symptoms. As of October 2026, he is a Professor at Cardiff University's School of Computer Science and Informatics and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow.

Career

  1. Since 2020Cardiff UniversityCo-founder, Professor

Education

  1. From 2016Sapienza University of RomePhD

From the biography.

  1. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Cardiff University. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  2. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes Cardiff University. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.
  3. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Sapienza University of Rome. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  4. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes Sapienza University of Rome. We estimate that Google holds the highest combined h-index at 8,016, while universities account for 73% of the deduplicated total across AI organizations.

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Sources and credits

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  1. A Unified Multilingual Semantic Representation of Concepts - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  2. Announcing the 2016 Google PhD Fellows for North America, Europe and the Middle East research.google. Checked 20 October 2026.
  3. Jose Camacho Collados - Home josecamachocollados.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  4. Jose Camacho Collados - Activities/News josecamachocollados.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  5. TweetNLP: Cutting-Edge Natural Language Processing for Social Media - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  6. AIJ Awards: List of Current and Previous Winners – Artificial Intelligence Journal aij.ijcai.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  7. Pun Unintended: LLMs and the Illusion of Humor Understanding - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  8. SYLFAEN-PSY: SYmptom Learning through Foundation models to Augment and ENhance measurement in PSYchosis - Grants Awarded | Wellcome wellcome.org. Checked 20 October 2026.