November, 2022.- A unique opportunity for the scientific community in Chile is offered by the first MIT-Chile Human Centered AI & Visualization Research Workshop, which will take place in Chile in January 2023, and which will bring together national and international experts in cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence, data visualization, and natural language processing. It…
November, 2022.- To make visible the work of women in computer science and computing, and thus help reduce the gender gap in the field, is the main goal of the Chile Women in Computing (ChileWiC) gathering, which this year returns to an in-person format. The event will take place in Santiago, over a full day,…
October, 2022.- Chaired by researchers from the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), José Fuentes, faculty member at the Facultad de Ingeniería de la U. de Concepción, and Diego Arroyuelo, faculty member at the Facultad de ingeniería informática de la Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, the International Symposium on String Processing and Information…
November, 2022.- The academic from the Faculty of Engineering of the Universidad de Concepción, José Fuentes, joins the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) as a Young Researcher. “It is a very interesting challenge, because I really like the multidisciplinary nature of the institute,” highlights the researcher. “Interdisciplinarity forces us to think a…
November 2022.- “Multi-label learning of geometric patterns in cultural heritage objects” is the name of this latest research seminar held at the offices of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), located in the UC Innovation building. This time it was the turn of Benjamín Bustos, faculty member of the Department of Computer…
October 2022.- A space where original presentations on the design, implementation, and experimental evaluation of algorithms and data structures come together: this is the goal of ALENEX 2023, Algorithm Engineering and Experiments, the conference where Gonzalo Navarro, faculty member at DCC U. Chile and IMFD Researcher, serves as co-chair, alongside Julian Shun, Massachusetts Institute of…
**October, 2022.-** IMFD Researcher and DCC U. Chile academic Gonzalo Navarro will join the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Algorithms (TALG), considered the most important scientific journal on algorithms internationally. TALG publishes original, high-quality research on algorithms, data structures, and related mathematics. The journal also includes columns and a problems section. “My appointment seeks…
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…