The directors of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), Juan Reutter and Aidan Hogan, were distinguished by members of the evaluation committee of two of the leading international research forums in databases. Every year, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) organizes the SIGMOD and PODS conferences to showcase the best research in…
The educational platform Research.com recently published its Best Scientists 2026 ranking, in which seven researchers from the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) appear as the most cited scientists in Chile in their respective fields of study. The researchers are Gonzalo Navarro, Aidan Hogan, Claudio Gutiérrez, Éric Tanter, faculty members at DCC UChile,…
The academic from the Department of Computer Science of Universidad de Chile and researcher at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), Gonzalo Navarro, was distinguished as a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), one of the most relevant international recognitions in computational biology and bioinformatics. The distinction is part…
Gonzalo Navarro was awarded the Imre Simon Test-of-Time Award for a paper that, more than two decades after its publication, continues to influence the development of the discipline. IMFD Researcher Gonzalo Navarro, a faculty member at the Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación (DCC) de la Universidad de Chile, was recognized with the Imre Simon…
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) awarded the 2025 Luiz André Barroso Award to the IMFD researcher, recognizing his pioneering contributions to algorithms and information retrieval, as well as his leadership in the development of computing in Latin America. A new and important recognition for his scientific career was received by Ricardo Baeza-Yates, faculty member…
The SIGMOD Research Highlight award is one of the most prestigious in this field and has been given annually since 2016. The work, which involves the IMFD researcher and IMC UC academic, together with researchers from the company RelationalAI and other universities, focuses on relational databases that are currently used in complex transactions, banking systems,…
In a world where data generation is constant and massive, the ability to react to critical events within milliseconds has become a fundamental pillar for development. Many areas in which millions of data points are generated constantly and in very little time -a data stream- require tools that allow them to identify relevant events in…
IMFD researchers and academics from the Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación de la Universidad de Chile, Benjamin Bustos and Gonzalo Navarro, each were awarded a Fondecyt Regular project in the 2026 call. These works address time- and space-efficient techniques to extend worst-case optimal algorithms to complex graph and relational databases, and a multi-modal similarity…
With the participation of researchers and students of all levels, the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) held its VIII Workshop at the Centro de Eventos Botánico in Peñalolén, Santiago. The event featured presentations on the progress and projects carried out by the center’s research lines, with an emphasis on the results and…
More than two hundred attendees arrived at the Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas de la Universidad de Chile to take part in ChileWiC 2025, a space designed to bring together women students, academics, and professionals from the fields of Computing and STEM. With the goal of sharing experiences, strengthening support networks, and making the…
The interdisciplinary project was recently presented at the 5th Workshop on Archaeology and Isotopes in Southern South America How can useful information, such as relationships and connections, be organized and extracted from hundreds of archaeological datings? This is the problem addressed by ArKG: the interdisciplinary project that brings together researchers from the School of Anthropology,…
The latest edition of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), the world’s most important conference on the Semantic Web, featured notable participation from researchers of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). Sebastián Ferrada, faculty member at the Data and Artificial Intelligence Initiative (IDIA), was part of the organizing committee and presented two…
As part of the Jornadas Chilenas de Computación 2025, the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) held a new edition of the Data Foundations School, a training space aimed at sharing tools and applied knowledge in data science, which this year focused on data privacy and RAGs. The session included two main blocks….
Putting data science and artificial intelligence tools at the service of the country and historical memory: this is the goal of Nuestra MemorIA, the initiative born under the wing of the IMFD, led by Jocelyn Dunstan Escudero, IMC and DCC UC academic and IMFD and AC3E researcher, who was selected by ANID to receive funding…
The Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) had a remarkable participation at the 2025 edition of the prestigious international conference ACM SIGMOD/PODS, one of the world’s leading forums for database research. “The participation of IMFD researchers strengthens the institute’s positioning in the development of theoretical foundations, computational tools, and applications in data management…