José Luis Saorín Ferrer
philologist, engineer, writer
Interactive cv of José Luis Saorín Ferrer: 21, philology at ULL, software, design and theatre as one continuous practice.
jl@joseluissaorin.com · https://www.joseluissaorin.com
biography
- José Luis Saorín Ferrer
- 21 years old. Student of Spanish: Language and Literature at the University of La Laguna. Tenerife. Combines philology, software, design and theatre as a single continuous practice.
- Saorín, all my life
- Family surname: Saorín Pérez, Saorín Ferrer. Identity as genealogy. Own commercial software label: Saorin Studios.
https://clipbrdapp.com
- El Día (April 2026)
- «Estrella Ortega and José Luis Saorín, the octogenarian and the young man who prove that knowledge has no age at the ULL.» Joint feature. El Día identifies JL as the best academic record in the entire ULL.
https://www.eldia.es/tenerife/2026/04/04/estrella-ortega-jose-luis-128663176.html
- University of La Laguna
- Home institution. Degree in Spanish: Language and Literature · 2022 – 2027.
- SICUE Granada · 2026-2027
- Final year of the degree at the University of Granada — Faculty of Philosophy and Arts. Main motivation: living.
- GPA · 9.64 / 10
- 15 honours distinctions throughout the degree.
academic
- Languages
- Spanish native · English C2 (Cambridge Proficiency) · French C1 · Italian B2 (in process of certification).
- AES · La Rioja · 2026
- XXI International Congress of the Spanish Association of Semiotics. Paper: «The referent is dead and AI killed it: Dead Internet Theory as a semiotic crisis». Three movements: body (Merleau-Ponty) → Kristeva (the semiotic before the symbolic) → Baudrillard + model collapse (Shumailov et al., 2024).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSbUEOImHYA
- Applied Sciences (MDPI) · 2026
- Co-author of the article «Open HTML5 Widgets for Smart Learning» in the special issue Smart Learning in Education. Carbonell, Fariña, Meier, Melián, Saorín Pérez, Saorín Ferrer. DEHAES group (ULL). Manuscript V16 closed on 26-Nov-2025.
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/45G5H0356K
- Nexo — IEHC
- Poem published in Nexo: Intercultural Journal of Art and Humanities (Institute of Hispanic Studies of the Canaries). Indexed in Latindex and the Hispanism Portal.
- 15 Honours Distinctions
- Accumulated throughout the Degree in Spanish: Language and Literature.
- Final-Degree Project · in preparation
- To be defined during the 2026-2027 academic year at SICUE Granada.
- Class Representative · ULL · 2022 – present
- Elected unanimously for four consecutive years. 3rd-year representative (2025-2026).
- ULL Student Council
- Member since the first year of the degree.
- Secretary General · Delegation of Humanities Students
- Founding member and Secretary General of the Delegation. Official constitution: 20 October 2025. 8 official minutes signed, SIUEH and ARELL position papers, stance before the CREUP, strategic planning 2025/2026 (22 pages).
- 1st Congress of Final-Degree Projects in Humanities · 13-Apr-2026
- Promoter, organiser, designer of the poster and materials, and moderator of the closing interdisciplinary roundtable. Motto: «The Humanities, from the students». Aulario César Manrique, Guajara Campus.
https://congresotfg.jls.name
- 1st Conference on Student Representation · 1-Oct-2026
- Co-organiser through the Delegation. Eight training blocks (9:00-14:30) for student representatives.
- 3rd Debate on the State of the ULL · 6-Mar-2026
- Co-author of the three sectoral position papers of the Delegation (Philosophy · Geography/History/Art History · Philology).
- «The island of empty houses» with David Uclés · 13-Mar-2026
- Opening event of the «Days of the Book» programme of the ULL Vice-Rectorate of Students. JL as narrator, in the role of the metafictional narrator of the novel. Co-authored the script and libretto.
- «Thinking Queer» Congress
- Organising assistant. Design and development of the congress website and the official leaflet.
- EXPLORA ULL Stand · 10-Apr-2026
- 1,728 confirmed students from 27 schools across Tenerife. Stand of the Humanities Delegation.
projects
- Scholaris
- AI-powered academic citation system: inserts citations with page numbers verified by OCR, detects temporal impossibilities and rewrites theoretical-framework applications. Open format SPDF (Semantic Processed Document Format).
https://scholaris.joseluissaorin.com
- EigenDialectos
- Spectral classifier of 8 varieties of Spanish (Peninsular, Andalusian, Canarian, Rioplatense, Mexican, Caribbean, Chilean, Andean). BETO + LoRA + eigenmode analysis. 758 unit tests, paper in LaTeX.
https://github.com/joseluissaorin/eigendialectos
- gasset
- Cross-platform writing app: PWA + native (Tauri v2). Filesystem-first, offline. CodeMirror 6, KaTeX, wikilinks, up to 500,000 words per document. <12,000 LOC.
https://github.com/joseluissaorin/gasset
- InferBox
- Self-hosted GPU inference server compatible with the OpenAI API. Embeddings, rerankers, LLMs, STT, image-gen. Micro-batching, speculative decoding, multi-GPU aware.
https://github.com/joseluissaorin/inferbox
- Parnaso · poetic ascent
- Educational videogame for teaching Spanish Golden Age poetry (Godot 4). Boscán ascends to Parnassus. 10 sonnets, 140 verses, 6 historical characters. Brought to secondary schools.
https://parnaso.joseluissaorin.com
- Tokenization & Coherence Study
- Experimental framework on how tokenization granularity affects discourse coherence. T5-base (BPE) vs ByT5-base (UTF-8) vs mT5-base (Unigram), 6 tasks, ~3,285 stimuli.
https://github.com/joseluissaorin/tokenization-coherence-study
- Saorin Studios · Clipbrd Premium
- Own commercial software label. Product in production: Clipbrd Premium (€3.99/month), an AI-powered clipboard manager with document support. Stripe + Google Play.
https://clipbrdapp.com
- HTML5Widgets — DEHAES
- Educational platform of HTML5 widgets developed with the DEHAES Group at the ULL. Technical basis of the Applied Sciences article.
- Kalorica
- AI-powered nutrition app, ED-friendly approach. React Native + Gemini 2.0.
- BrainBeats
- Turns PDFs into TikTok-style educational videos. React Native + AI + TTS.
- Spanish DAT
- Verbal-creativity test with FastText. Flask + React + Python.
- Sabor a Son · web redesign
- Redesign of the website for the live Cuban-music band (Tenerife). Warm aesthetics, client-facing narrative.
https://saborason.es
art
- On the Lightness of Chance
- Novel. Own literary folder.
- A Postman’s Poems
- Novel. Own literary folder.
- Memories of an Autumn Spiral
- Novel. Own literary folder.
- The Endless Search for Jean’s Cat
- Novel. Own literary folder.
- Poems to Be Whispered
- Poetry collection. Own folder.
- Customs
- Poem.
- Lukewarm Beauty
- Poem.
- Broken Kisses
- Poem.
- Birds
- Poem.
- Leak
- Poem.
- A Millimetre per Week
- Poem and homonymous collection.
- Theatre Group of the Faculty of Philology · ULL
- 2025-2026 productions: «The Interrogation» (6-Mar) · «The island of empty houses» (13-Mar) · «Dark Comedy» (25-Mar) · Closing recital of the 1st TFG Congress (13-Apr) · «Bajarse al moro» (17-Apr).
- Los Silos Storytelling Festival
- Children’s theatre performance at one of the most important oral-narration festivals in Spain.
- Cairasco for the IEMYR · 2026
- Performance of a text by Bartolomé Cairasco de Figueroa (1538-1610) in the IEMYR annual seminar.
- Curtain
- Short story.
- The Tomb of the Butterflies
- Short story.
- Raw
- Short story.
- The Red Tree
- Short story.
- The Tightrope Walker
- Short story.
- Banana
- Text.
- Hats and Dresses
- Short story.
- «ll» Brand — Humanities Delegation ULL
- Complete visual system: monogrammatic logotype in original/positive/negative variants, institutional roll-up, Google Slides and document templates, screen-printed material.
- Poster of the 1st Humanities TFG Congress
- Official poster, adaptations for social media, lanyards and badge holders. Full design.