Current Project

Past Projects

DocIntelligence

A RAG-powered interface to chat with your documents. Connects to Google Drive, vectorizes PDFs, and lets you query your knowledge base using natural language.

HikeGroups

A social app for hikers to organize group hikes, discover trails, and connect with fellow outdoor enthusiasts in their area.

Tailored Mindfulness

An AI-powered meditation app that generates personalized voice-guided meditation sessions tailored to your mood and preferences.

Experiences

AI/ML Engineer

Oct 2025 - Present
Proppos

Building AI fast checkout using computer vision.

Freelance AI/ML Engineer

Apr 2025 - Present
Self-employed

Delivering LLM and CV projects on Upwork.

AI/ML Engineer

Jan 2024 - Apr 2025
Kantar Media

LMM video APIs, RAG pipelines, full-stack delivery.

Senior Data Scientist

Feb 2022 - Sep 2023
Repsol (via Quant AI Lab)

Led document AI with GNN and RetinaNet.

Senior Data Scientist

Mar 2021 - Sep 2021
Huawei

Multilingual NER and entity linking for news.

Industrial PhD Researcher

Apr 2017 - Dec 2020
Computer Vision Center & omni:us

Invented CNN-RNN and GNN for document understanding.

Data Scientist

Jun 2016 - Oct 2016
Ulabox

Predicted churn and lifetime value with DL.

Data Science Intern

Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
Hockerty

Built recommender systems with scikit-learn clustering.

Software Engineer

Jul 2014 - Sep 2014
Coritel (Accenture)

Developed COBOL accounting modules for banking.

Assistant Lecturer

Apr 2013 - Jul 2013
University of Hamburg

Tutored Ordinary Differential Equations in German.

Publications

  • Named Entity Recogntion and Relation Extraction with Graph Neural Networks in Semi-Structured Documents
  • Manuel Carbonell, Pau Riba, Mauricio Villegas, Alicia Fornés, Josep Lladós
    International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2020 (oral)
  • A Neural Model for Text Localization, Transcription and Named Entity Recognition in Full Pages
  • Manuel Carbonell, Alicia Fornés, Mauricio Villegas, Josep Lladós.
    Pattern Recognition Letters, 2020
  • End-to-End Handwritten Text Detection and Transcription in Full Pages
  • Manuel Carbonell, Joan Mas Romeu, Mauricio Villegas, Alicia Fornés, Josep Lladós.
    International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition Workshops, 2019
  • Joint Recognition of Handwritten Text and Named Entities with a Neural End-to-End Model
  • Manuel Carbonell, Mauricio Villegas, Alicia Fornés, Josep Lladós.
    International Conference on Document Analysis Systems, 2018

    Skills & Proficiency

    Python (pytorch, transformers, tensorflow, pandas, numpy, django, fastapi, pytest)

    Shell

    Azure DevOps, GCP

    SQL

    JavaScript

    C

    Java