The UC academic, who has served as a researcher and former deputy director at the IMFD, will lead the center during the 2026-2031 period. This Monday, November 2, Pablo Barceló, an academic at the Institute of Mathematical and Computational Engineering of the Universidad Católica (IMC UC) and a researcher at the Institute Milenio Fundamentos de…
The director of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and academic at Universidad Católica (UC), Juan Reutter, spoke with Cooperativa Ciencia about the research behind the recognition awarded this month in London, and also discussed how artificial intelligence is changing the landscape for students. On July 9, the University of London, England,…
Juan Reutter, Domagoj Vrgoč and Pablo Barceló are among the seven winners of the 2026 Alonzo Church Award, one of the most prestigious recognitions in logic and computation worldwide, for research that laid the groundwork for new international standards in data querying. Three researchers from the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) were…
May 2022.- Juan Reutter, faculty member at the Departamento de Ciencia de la Computación de la U. Católica (DCC UC), has recently taken on the role of new alternate director of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). Pablo Barceló, director of the Instituto de Ingeniería Matemática y Computacional de la U. Católica…
April 2022.- Pablo Barceló, deputy director of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), researcher at the Centro Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (Cenia) and director of IMC UC, was invited to the international workshop “When deep learning meets logic”, a virtual event sponsored by Samsung to be held in June. In its first…
December 2021.- Resuming in-person activities after the pandemic, the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) held, in hybrid format, its first IMFD Research Seminar: “Liquid Democracy: an Algorithmic Perspective,” presented by Pablo Barceló, alternate director of the IMFD and director of the IMC UC. In the presentation, Barceló explores the potential functioning of…
An innovative architecture for graph neural networks and a tool that allows users to specify explanations for artificial intelligence systems are two IMFD papers that will be presented at NeurIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems), one of the most relevant conferences in computing and computer science held internationally, which this year will take place virtually in…
**September 2021.-** With more than 110 people taking part in simultaneous online talks, the **Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD)** held its **III Workshop**. The event showcased progress on research conducted under the [**Flagship Projects**](https://imfd.cl/proyectos-e-investigaciones/), which channel the interdisciplinary work of this research center, recognized for its frontier research in data science combining…