October 2022.- With wide attendance both online and in person, a new Research Seminar was held on the 4th floor of the UC Innovation building, an activity coordinated by the IMFD’s Academic Direction, which aims to promote interdisciplinary studies and share experiences among the Institute’s various teams. This time the presentation was given by Cristián…
September, 2022.- The **early detection of metastasis in prostate cancer patients** is the goal of [ProstaMets](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atfx0lh2_x8&feature=emb_logo), a **prognostic test** that analyzes the progression of this tumor through the **detection of genetic markers**. The technology –which has been awarded and featured within the R&D ecosystem– is a development by [Environ](https://cl.linkedin.com/company/environ-spa), a biotechnology startup born under the…
September 2022.- With a wide turnout, a new Research Seminar of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) was held. Federico Olmedo, faculty member of the Department of Computer Science at Universidad de Chile and IMFD young researcher, presented his research “Differential Privacy: how to make privacy and data mining compatible”. During the…
September 2022.- A new Research Seminar was held with wide attendance at the offices of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) located at the Centro de Innovación UC. This time, the seminar featured the research “Differential Privacy: how to make privacy and data mining compatible”, presented by Federico Olmedo, faculty member of…
Francesca Lucchini and Camila Vera, both students at IMFD and the Master’s in Engineering Sciences, Computer Science major at the Department of Computer Science of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, (DCC UC), are currently focusing their research on clustering, that is, creating groups according to certain characteristics, of the city of Santiago based on socioeconomic…
**August, 2022.-** Cinthia Sánchez, PhD candidate in Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science of Universidad de Chile and IMFD student, is researching the problem of data scarcity, in order to create new multilingual and multi-domain models to classify crisis-related messages, enabling their generalization to different critical tasks in crisis management. Her research A…
August 2022.- The Gender Commission presents its series #EllasInvestigan, which will showcase the work of one of our researchers and students. María Magdalena Walker, a student at IMFD and the Facultad de Comunicaciones de la P. Universidad Católica de Chile, researches morning TV shows as a new element of discussion and explanation of what happens…
August, 2022.- Diego Rebollo, Marcelo Lemus, Diego Arias, and Benjamín Oyarzún, four of the national champions of the 10th Chilean Informatics Olympiad (OCI), will be representing Chile at the 34th International Olympiad in Informatics, to be held in August of this year in Indonesia. These four selected participants emerged from an intensive training program involving…
July 2022.- The sixth IMFD Research Seminar featured Felipe Bravo, IMFD Young Researcher and academic at the Department of Computer Science of Universidad de Chile, who presented the research “Tackling Fairness: Change and Polysemy in Word Embeddings.” The main topic was word change through Natural Language Processing (NLP). The main goal of the presented research…
June 2022.- How has the meaning of words changed over time? Do “planta” or “villano” have the same semantic definition in the 1800s as in the 2000s? Discovering these variations using computational models was the challenge posed to researchers from around the world who participated in the “Lexical Semantic Change Discovery Shared Task“, a competition…
July, 2022.-As part of the closing of the constitutional process, Plataforma Telar, an initiative of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) together with the United Nations Development Programme, published two studies addressing different milestones before and during the operation of the Constitutional Convention. The presentation ceremony, “La paridad si importa“, was held…
June 2022.- Pollution in these areas has not only damaged the marine ecosystem and the quality of agricultural land, affecting fishermen and farmers: added to this is the social deterioration in the communities, the constant feeling of insecurity, and hopelessness. These are some of the findings recorded in the study “Zona de sacrificio: contaminación, empleo…
May 2022.- Juan Reutter, faculty member at the Departamento de Ciencia de la Computación de la U. Católica (DCC UC), has recently taken on the role of new alternate director of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). Pablo Barceló, director of the Instituto de Ingeniería Matemática y Computacional de la U. Católica…
June 2022.- With broad participation, a new Research Seminar was held at the offices of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). The talk “Compact Data Structures” by Gonzalo Navarro, IMFD researcher and academic at the Department of Computer Science of the Universidad de Chile, presented advances in compact database structures, which the…
May 2022.- IMFD researchers Aidan Hogan and Claudio Gutiérrez, faculty members of the Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación, (DCC U. Chile), together with other experts from around the world, wrote the book Knowledge Graphs, which seeks to give an integrated view of knowledge graphs, both in the academic world and in industry. Knowledge Graphs…