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 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 with…
The award recognizes the most impactful papers presented over the past decade at the International Conference on Database Theory, whether in terms of research, methodology, conceptual contributions, or practical applications. This year’s selected paper is titled “Regular Queries on Graph Databases” and, in addition to Juan Reutter, professor at the Department of Computer Science UC,…
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…
Using the knowledge and advances created in academia to solve problems that affect people: this is one of the goals of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), whose Innovation area, in partnership with Cero.ai, recently won the project “Prioritization of patients on waiting lists using Artificial Intelligence” from the Ministry of Health. “The…
January 2025.- One of the most interesting challenges in the field of natural language processing (NLP) is free text recognition. This is the challenge faced by the Innovation and Technology Transfer Division of IMFD in collaborative work with the Superintendencia de Seguridad Social (SUSESO), which had as its main focus the optimization of claims filing…
January, 2025.- The Association for Computing Machinery, the most prestigious organization in the field of computing and computer science worldwide, recognized Marcelo Arenas, academic at the Department of Computer Science UC and the Institute of Mathematical and Computational Engineering UC, and IMFD researcher, as a Fellow of the ACM. This award recognizes the top 1%…
December, 2024.- Magdalena Saldaña, faculty member at the Facultad de Comunicaciones PUC and IMFD researcher, has been honored with a prestigious recognition awarded by the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Vienna in Austria: the “Paul Lazarsfeld Professorship.” This award is granted to outstanding academics with an innovative profile in the fields of…
August, 2024.- For the first time in its history, the most prestigious international conference in data science, ACM SIGMOD/PODS, was held in Latin America, with Chile as the host country. One of the sections of this important conference is the presentation of cutting-edge prototypes of new data management systems. What is sought in these prototypes…
Although his beginnings as a student were in the Electrical Engineering program at Universidad de Chile, since when he entered the Common Plan he hadn’t even seen a computer, it was during the progress of these first years that he became interested in computing, studying in parallel for a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s in…
August, 2024.- IMFD and Cenia researcher Felipe Bravo is promoted to Associate Professor at Universidad de Chile. The academic from the Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación de la Universidad de Chile holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and a Master’s degree in Sciences with a specialization in…
October, 2024.- “It is necessary to expand women’s access to technology and challenge the patriarchal history of science and technology, which has considered these disciplines as inherently masculine.” This is the vision that drove Thelma Estrin, an American computer scientist, a pioneer in applying computer technology to the fields of health and medicine, who throughout…
September, 2024.- Generating environments, protocols and tools that provide reliability to interaction in digital environments: this is one of the greatest challenges currently facing the world of computing and informatics. Digital trust is the main focus of the “Glion Summit of Centers”, held in Switzerland, which brought together leaders from 20 research centers around the…