Hector Diaz

Born in Luya Viejo, Peru, I dropped out of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, where I was majoring in economics. I am a Magnificent Fellowship recipient and an Emergent Ventures grant winner. Previously, I trained the first neural machine translation (NMT) model for the Spanish-Awajún language pair and achieved state-of-the-art results in BOUQuET (Dataset, Benchmark, and Open Initiative for Universal Quality Evaluation in Translation), published by Meta. Evaluation code and results here. During high school, I represented my country in the Sakura Science High School Program, organized by the Japan Science and Technology Agency. Later, I was awarded a full scholarship to study economics at the top university in Peru, the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.

I lead Airvoy, an eSIM startup with over 100,000 users aiming to become the world's first free eSIM marketplace.

In my spare time, I lead a project to find the Rosetta Stone for the Andean Quipus. We are using generative AI to transcribe colonial-era documents, searching for the lost written transcriptions that could finally allow us to decode the narrative and historical data stored in the quipus. You can read more about this here.

Additionally, I am writing a book titled Architects, which features individuals building asteroid mining companies, doing postraining at frontier AI labs, country presidents, people tracking UFOs, and more. If you know someone who should be featured in this book, please reach out.