August, 2024.- How to put the most advanced data science techniques at the service of the people: this is the goal of the IMFD Innovation area, which in collaboration with the Superintendencia de Seguridad Social (SUSESO), is working on the project “Natural Language Processing for the Optimization of Claims Intake.” SUSESO is the autonomous State…
How gender stereotypes and body image concerns manifest in online diet and fitness forums: this is the focus of the research “Feelings about Bodies: Emotions on Diet and Fitness Forums Reveal Gendered Stereotypes and Body Image Concerns”, in which PhD student from the Computer Science Department of Universidad de Chile and IMFD, Cinthia Sánchez, took…
January, 2024.- Generating concrete proposals for solutions to design, improve, and evaluate public policies, in order to provide evidence to decision-makers and contribute to national public discussion: this is the main objective of the Public Policy Competition held annually by the UC Center for Public Policy, which this year will fund the project “Development of…
Highlighting his scientific career, the academic DCC U. Chile and senior researcher at IMFD, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, was named a new member of the Academia Europaea (in Latin) last October 10 during the Building Bridges 2023 Annual Conference, in Munich. “It is a Europe-wide academy for outstanding researchers, where I have been considered among the best…
June 2023.- Getting people to understand data: this is the goal of C80, the innovative project created by IMFD student Ricardo Vega, faculty member at the UC School of Design, PhD student at the PUC Department of Computer Science. This initiative was born in 2015 with the goal of bringing the Constitution closer to people…
The impact of data on power when viewed through the lens of feminism and intersectionality: this was the main topic of the first session of the Reading Club of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and the Observatorio de Datos y estadísticas de Género (ODEGI). The meeting, which had extensive participation, was…
February 2023.- The technology research company 3M, short for Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, created the initiative “25 Women in Science Latin America”, which recognizes outstanding female scientists in the region. As part of its 3rd edition, Jocelyn Dunstan, researcher at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and academic at the Computer…