Matías Toro

Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science (DCC) at the University of Chile and a junior researcher at Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data IMFD). He worked in the aerospace industry for several years before earning his PhD from the University of Chile. 

His research focuses on the development of programming languages that incorporate data protection by design, with an emphasis on formal techniques. He studies how to gradually adopt advanced type systems (such as linear or probabilistic types) to guarantee security and privacy properties. At the same time, he explores differential privacy and anonymization techniques, applied to both software engineering and real-world data analysis, with applications in artificial intelligence and natural language processing. His work combines formal theoretical contributions with empirical applications, promoting systems that are trustworthy by design.

He is a co-author of the Jazz programming language, which facilitates the incorporation of differential privacy guarantees into existing software. In addition, he co-created the first Data Privacy course in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chile and serves on its Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Digitalization Committee. Link to website.