One of the missions of the unit he will lead is to promote the informed and responsible use of AI in research, driving interdisciplinary initiatives on its development, impacts, and applications to address the most pressing social challenges. Pablo Barceló, who until a few months ago was director of the Institute of Mathematical and Computational…
How artists and designers develop systematic approaches to visual language: this is the question that guides the work behind “45 Symbols: Clay to Code”, the book in which Ricardo Vega takes part, professor at the UC School of Design, collaborator at DiLab (UC School of Engineering), and PhD student at IMFD. Directed by designer 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 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 papers…
Knowing how many we are, how we’re doing in health, in education, how we vote, what our origins are: There is a general consensus that this data should be accessible to those seeking to create public policy, innovate, research, study, and much more. But, how do we safeguard the privacy of individual data in a…
As part of the Jornadas Chilenas de Computación 2025, the Millennium Institute 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. In…
In 2025, the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) launched “Hablemos de Datos, los fundamentos de la inteligencia artificial” (“Let’s Talk About Data, the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence”), a podcast and radio program aimed at bringing citizens closer to the core topics of data science and artificial intelligence (AI) across different areas of social,…
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s leading scientific and educational computing society, announced today the selection of 61 new Distinguished Members for 2025. Among the professionals recognized is Pablo Barceló, a faculty member at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and researcher at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), honored for his…
Column by Naim Bro, Professor, School of Government, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Researcher / Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). I live in Santiago, but I vote in Romeral, a small town in the Maule region known for its cherries. Every time I go back, the contrast is still striking: the conversations I hear in…
Professor Aidan Hogan, faculty member at DCC U. Chile and Deputy Director of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), received new recognition for his outstanding academic career after being promoted to the rank of Full Professor at Universidad de Chile, the highest rank within the academic career path. According to university regulations, this…
Column by Carla Alberti and Diego Diaz in La Tercera, December 15, 2025 José Antonio Kast’s sweeping victory not only implies a change of power, but also confirms the decline of the dictatorship as the organizing axis of Chilean politics. This presidential election is the second in which the winning party is different from the…
Next year will mark the 42nd edition of the Logic in Computer Science (LICS) forum, organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). This is the world’s most important symposium on logic and computer science, which will be held in Montreal (Canada) and will have as…
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 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 short-…