curriculum vitae

last updated September 2026

profile

Full-time software engineer at Linknovate, a platform for tracking innovation and searching for technologies, where I develop and improve the products. Instructor at the Universidade da Coruña, teaching alongside that work. My research is in information retrieval and natural language processing.

experience

2025 —

Software engineer

Linknovate Science — full time

  • Development of the Linknovate product.
  • Python, Django, Elasticsearch, LLMs.

Nov 2025 —

Instructor

Universidade da Coruña

  • Teaching in the degrees in artificial intelligence and computer science.
  • Research in information retrieval and natural language processing.

2024

Visiting researcher

University of Glasgow

Three-month research stay with the Terrier Group, supervised by Professor Craig Macdonald.

2021 — 2025

Researcher and PhD candidate

Linknovate Science

Funded by a competitive industrial doctorate (DI) grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (DIN2020-011582). See the projects page for the funded projects I worked on.

2021

Research technician

Universidade da Coruña

Contributor to the research project “Technologies for the early prediction of signs related to psychological disorders”.

2020 — 2021

Software engineer

Corunet SLU

  • Payment integration for a multinational textile retailer.
  • Java, Spring Framework, ReactJS, Kafka, DB2, Couchbase.

teaching

  • Development and Deployment Tools BSc in Artificial Intelligence, Universidade da Coruña
  • Recommender Systems BSc in Artificial Intelligence, Universidade da Coruña
  • Information Retrieval BSc in Data Science, Universidade da Coruña

education

2021 — 2025

PhD in Computer Science

Universidade da Coruña — cum laude

Thesis: Improving the Search Experience on Complex Search Scenarios, supervised by M. Eduardo Ares and Javier Parapar.

2020 — 2022

MSc in Computer Engineering

Universidade da Coruña

2016 — 2020

BSc in Computer Engineering

Universidade da Coruña — extraordinary award

skills

  • Advanced programming
  • Requirements analysis
  • Experiment design
  • Model evaluation
  • Collaboration and teamwork
  • Critical thinking
  • Complex problem solving
  • Technical and academic writing
  • Oral communication

languages

  • Spanish native
  • Galician native
  • English C1

contact

jorge@linknovate.com — Linknovate Science
jorge.gabin@udc.es — Faculty of Computer Science, Universidade da Coruña
A Coruña, Spain