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Rafael Mosquera

Making artificial-intelligence systems work in the real world.

Economics and law by degree; ML engineer by practice. Four years of industry experience building datasets, evaluation systems, and production inference pipelines.

Recognition

NeurIPS D&B 2024 best paper (Prism Alignment Dataset). Contributions to Dynabench, People’s Speech, Adversarial Nibbler, DataPerf, and BabyLM.

Focus

Reproducible evaluation, honest assessments of what works in production, and the gap between research papers and shipped systems.

Based in

Bogotá, Colombia.

Posts by Rafael Mosquera

Notes from ICLR 2026: Six Orals on LLMs and Evaluation
For Engineers

Notes from ICLR 2026: Six Orals on LLMs and Evaluation

Notes from the second oral session at ICLR 2026. Six papers on reward hacking detection, multi-turn reliability (the Best Paper), micro-benchmarking, value-difference generation, preference interpretability, and mutual-judgment alignment.

Apr 23, 2026
Notes from ICLR 2026: Maja Mataric on Why AI Needs a Body
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Notes from ICLR 2026: Maja Mataric on Why AI Needs a Body

Opening keynote at ICLR 2026 from USC and Google DeepMind's Maja Mataric — a case that intelligence without a body misses the point, and that the robots we actually need aren't the ones trying hardest to look human.

Apr 23, 2026