Jose Cols is a Text Mining Student Specialist with the University of Washington Libraries and the eScience Institute. As a graduate student in UW’s Master of Science in Computational Linguistics program, he is excited to apply his experience in software engineering and natural language processing to support UW researchers.

His professional background includes senior engineering roles leading the development of scalable, data-intensive applications. He has experience architecting cloud infrastructure and optimizing data pipelines to improve system performance for global audiences.

In this role, he partners with faculty, students, and staff to design reproducible NLP workflows, teach hands-on workshops, and develop online guides that help the UW community turn unstructured text into insight. To schedule a virtual text mining consultation, please email uwtextmine@uw.edu.