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2016 Master of Science in Computer Science. Costa Rica Institute of Technology (ITCR).
1990 Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Informatics. University of Costa Rica (UCR).
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Languages
Spanish (native)
English
Research interests and extension
Biodiversity informatics, natural language processing, and data science
Professional Experience
2017 to present. Professor at the School of Computer Engineering of the Costa Rica Institute of Technology (TEC), Alajuela Campus.
2020 to present. Professor in the Data Science Program of the School of Computer Engineering at ITCR, Fundatec. Courses taught: Mathematics for Data Science, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing.
2010 to 2015. Manager of Information and Communication Technologies at INBio.
1993 to 2016. Software Engineer and member of the development team for INBio’s biodiversity information management systems.
Campus del Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica
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Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 4 Quality Education -
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SDG 14 Life Below Water -
SDG 15 Life on Land
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Optimización de modelos de lenguaje para la recuperación y generación de información sobre especies: Integración de conocimiento contextual por medio del estándar Plinian Core
Mora Cross, M. A. (Institutional academic coordinator), Quesada, A. (Institutional academic collaborator), Alfaro Moreira, C. (Institutional academic collaborator), Pérez, P. (Institutional academic collaborator), Bejarano Sepulveda, E. J. (External collaborating researcher ), Michel Maes, J. (External collaborating researcher ), Hurtado, P. (External collaborating researcher ), Sedano Franco, J. (External collaborating researcher ) & Gonzales Hernández, M. L. (External collaborating researcher )
2/01/25 → 30/12/27
Project: Research Projects Internally funded › Technological Development
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Optimización de modelos de lenguaje para la recuperación y generación de información sobre especies: Integración de conocimiento contextual por medio del estándar Plinian Core
Mora Cross, M. A. (Institutional academic coordinator), Quesada, A. (Institutional academic collaborator), Alfaro Moreira, C. (Institutional academic collaborator) & Pérez, P. (Institutional academic collaborator)
2/01/25 → 30/12/27
Project: Research Projects Internally funded › Technological Development
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Consolidación de la Red de Ciencia de Datos para la Conservación de la Biodiversidad Mesoamericana (redbioma): Investigación, Desarrollo Tecnológico e Innovación Inclusiva Para la Biodiversidad.
Mora Cross, M. A. (Institutional academic coordinator)
1/12/23 → 30/04/26
Project: International Projects › Technical Cooperation
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Deep Learning Pipelines for Biodiversity Monitoring: MegaDetector and Vision Transformer Approaches with Camera Traps in Costa Rica
Biarreta-Portillo, M., Morataya-Sandoval, P., Víquez-Mora, E., Mora-Cross, M., Salinas-Acosta, A., López-Venegas, M., Gómez-Solís, W. & Bautista-Solís, P., 2025, 2025 IEEE 7th International Conference on BioInspired Processing, BIP 2025. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., (2025 IEEE 7th International Conference on BioInspired Processing, BIP 2025).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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Challenging the gender gap in STEM with Python and Data Science: case of the National Technical University de Costa Rica
Biarreta Portillo, M., Castro Ramírez, J., Mora Cross, M., Rodríguez Brenes, K. & Chen Huang, T., 2024, In: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. 3872, p. 98-109 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article › peer-review
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Relation Extraction from Unstructured Species Descriptions Using TaxonNERD and Llama 7B
Montero, F. R., Villanueva, E. R. & Mora Cross, M. A., 4 Dec 2024, Relation Extraction from Unstructured Species Descriptions Using TaxonNERD and Llama 7B.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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Uncertainty Estimation in Large Language Models to Support Biodiversity Conservation
Mora-Cross, M. & Calderon-Ramirez, S., 30 Jun 2024, Industry Track. Yang, Y., Davani, A., Sil, A. & Kumar, A. (eds.). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 368-378 11 p. (Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL 2024; vol. 6).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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Essential Biodiversity Variables: extracting plant phenological data from specimen labels using machine learning
Mora-Cross, M., Morales-Carmiol, A., Chen-Huang, T. & Barquero-Pérez, M., 23 Aug 2022, In: Research Ideas and Outcomes.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review