Éric Tanter, academic at the Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación de la Universidad de Chile and associate researcher at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), received an Inria International Chair, a program that fosters collaboration between prominent international researchers and the French research center, one of the leading science and technology…
Column published in La Tercera, by Naim Bro, academic at the School of Government, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, and IMFD researcher Last week, Plaza Italia underwent an important change: the seven lanes of the traditional roundabout were removed, giving way to an esplanade connecting Balmaceda, Forestal, and Bustamante parks. At the same time, the eternal controversy…
With more than 50 attendees, the Workshop Archives, Data and Justice: Interdisciplinary Experience in the Investigation of Colonia Dignidad was held. Organized by the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) in collaboration with the National Institute for Human Rights (INDH), the event focused on the potential of massive data analysis of the Colonia…
ICML is one of the most important gatherings in the world for researchers dedicated to the study and advancement of machine learning, one of the essential branches of artificial intelligence. The 2025 edition will take place in Canada and will feature the participation of several papers, two of them developed by IMFD’s director, Juan Reutter,…
With a productive meeting between the IMFD Innovation area and IMFD researchers, the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) kicked off work on the StartUp Ciencia project, awarded for 2025. The main topics addressed at the meeting were how to put the research and technological development produced by IMFD researchers at the service…
Gabriela Arriagada Bruneau is an Assistant Professor with dual affiliation at the Institute of Applied Ethics (IEA) and the Institute of Mathematical and Computational Engineering (IMC) of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and a Young Researcher at the National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA). Claudia López works as an Assistant Professor at Universidad Técnica…
It was precisely in Sydney, Australia, where Marcelo Mendoza, DCC UC academic and principal researcher at CENIA and associate researcher at Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), presented two new techniques for language models like GPT-4o, Claude and Gemini to extract key data from news articles and formulate questions and answers like a…
Putting scientifically-backed knowledge generated under the umbrella of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) at the service of the people: this is the goal of the IMFD’s Innovation and Technology Transfer Division, which now has new leadership under Hernán Sarmiento, PhD in Computer Science from Universidad de Chile. “One of my main…
Applications are open until April 15 for the first free Clinical Natural Language Processing course for students and professionals from health and engineering fields in Chile at: https://plnclinico.imfd.cl/ “One of the most important challenges when trying to use different artificial intelligence tools in the healthcare field is that most of patients’ clinical information is written…
The city of Santiago, Chile hosted for the first time the KHIPU 2025 conference, the most important artificial intelligence gathering in Latin America, which took place from March 10 to 14, 2025. This event brought together more than 500 attendees from academia, industry, and other leaders in the field, becoming a crucial platform for artificial…
Matías Toro (DCC U. Chile), Sebastián Ferrada (Data & Artificial Intelligence FCFM Universidad de Chile) and Naim Bro (School of Government UAI) are the three IMFD researchers who are receiving these funds granted by ANID. The Fondecyt de Iniciación grants seek to strengthen the development of excellent scientific and technological research by promoting new researchers…
The value of research and work with data and data science: this is what the new podcast from the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) seeks to address. The podcast was selected among the applications to the Ciencia Pública funds and will be directed by the IMFD communications coordinator, Paula Mónica Silva, together…
Between January 13 and 17, 2025, the Democracy and Ecology Secondary School took place, a civic education initiative jointly promoted by the Millennium Institute for Research on Violence and Democracy (VioDemos) and the Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity. The intensive program spanned 5 days in which 32 students from public and private schools across 14…
From January 21 to 29, the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science 2025 (SICSS) took place for the second time in Chile, with the goal of expanding knowledge in computational social sciences, promoting interdisciplinary participation among those belonging to these fields. Over seven days, keynotes, workshops, and tutorials were held at the San Joaquín Campus…
A recent study titled “Unsupervised Framing Analysis for Social Media Discourse in Polarizing Events,” by IMFD researchers Hernán Sarmiento (Innovación IMFD), Jorge Ortiz (DCC UCH), Felipe Bravo-Márquez (DCC UCH) and Sebastián Valenzuela (PUC), together with Marcelo Santos (UDP) and Ricardo Córdova, was published in the prestigious journal ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), of the…