Felipe Bravo Márquez receives recognition as outstanding young scientist at regional level from the World Academy of Sciences.

In merit of his research work and contributions made in the field of engineering, the academic of the DCC U. Chile and researcher of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), Felipe Bravo MárquezFelipe Bravo Márquez, was recognized with the "TWAS LACREP Young Scientists Award 2022". This distinction was awarded by the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS ) through its headquarters for Latin America and the Caribbean, LACREP, which recognized him as the most outstanding young scientist in the region.

TWASis an organization founded in 1983 and based in Italy, dedicated to promoting scientific capacity and excellence for sustainable development in developing countries. In the case of the award given to Professor Felipe Bravo Márquez, TWAS recognized the quality and contributions of his academic work, mainly focused on natural language processing, machine learning and artificial intelligence. The number of citations to his research papers, the organization of various initiatives and activities were highlighted , among them, the semantic lexical shift detection competition held at the beginning of this yearand the development of WEFEa framework framework for measuring bias in word inclusion models.

After receiving this recognition, Felipe Bravo, who is also a researcher of the National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA)- expressed that "it is very valuable. TWAS is a very important scientific academy for developing countries with the support of UNESCO". He also commented that within the initiatives he is currently promoting, he recently applied for a FONDEF project, in which he would assume the role of director and "which addresses the development of an Open Source software called DashAI, which will allow non-programmers to approach artificial intelligence. We applied together with Claudia López (UTFSM), Iván Sipirán (UChile) and Andrés Carvallo (CENIA)", he concluded.

Source: Communications DCC U. Chile