David Vilares is an Assistant Professor at the University of A Coruña (Spain) since 2020 and a member of the Centre for Information and Communications Technology Research (CITIC). He was a recipient of the 2018 Spanish National Award to Young Researchers in Computer Science. His research work lies within the field of natural language processing, with a focus on the areas of sentiment analysis, computational sociolinguistics, syntactic parsing, and low-resource languages. To the date, he has published more than 40 peer-reviewed papers in the field.