Research

Research Interests

I’m interested in machine learning, data science, business intelligence, data mining, deep learning and neural networks with random weights.

Research Projects

1. “Millennium Nucleus for Social Data Science (SODAS)”, ANID-MILENIO-NCN2024_103, 2024-2027, Associate Researcher.

2. “Sentiment Classification of Social Media Through Randomization-based Neural Networks” (FONDECYT INICIACION 2023-11230396), 2023-2025, Head Researcher.

3. “Machine Learning for Mental Health: New Developments and Applications Using Multimodal Data” (Anillos ACT210096), 2021-2024, Associate Researcher.

4. “Bien Publico Observatorio turistico Big Data Region Metropolitana.” Bienes Publicos CORFO (2017-2019), Data Scientist.

5. “Gobernando transiciones criticas en sistemas socioecologicos: El caso de Chiloe, Chile”. Regular Fondecyt Project 1190265 (2019-2022), Assistant Researcher.

6. “Modelo de crisis sociales”. Nucleo milenio (2015-2017), Assistant Researcher.

7. “Learning strategies for discrete, continuous, and hybrid Bayesian network classifiers”. Regular Fondecyt Project 1180706 (2018-2021), Assistant Researcher.

8. “Constitucion politica y reprogramacion del orden social: Un estudio sobre la produccion de conceptos de sociedad en la discusion y redaccion de la Constitucion chilena de 1980”. Regular Fondecyt Project 1181585 (2018-2021), Assistant Researcher.

9. “Desarrollo de modelos predictivos usando machine learning para la toma de decisiones en la produccion de arandanos bajo condiciones actuales y proyectadas de cambio climatico”. Contratos Tecnologicos para la Innovacion-CORFO (2018-2019), Data Scientist.

Advising

Current Students:

• PhD: Nando Verelst.

Past Students (Master):

• 2024: Sofia Basaez, Sofia Garrido, Vicente Garrido, Benjamin Jimenez, Diego Valderrama, Renata Valenzuela, Rolando Villagra.
• 2023: Nicolas Aguirre, Ricardo Barria, Trinidad Cofre, Pia Garay, Sebastian Rozas, Juan Sandoval, Martin Sanchez, Rodrigo Vasquez, Gabriel Medina, Jaime Nunez, Joel Paredes, Benjamin Sanchez.
• 2022: Vicente Castro, Katherine Parra, Constanza Soto, Tian Chai, Jazmin Diaz, Nicolas Gonzalez, Jose Ignacio Fuentes, Paolo Pruzzo, Yair Yuhaniak.

Professional Activities

• Academic Editor, PLOS ONE, 2023-present.
• Academic Editor, PLOS Complex Systems, 2024-present.
• FONDECYT Project Reviewer.
• Reviewer for: Neurocomputing, Expert Systems with Applications, Microchemical Journal, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Applied Soft Computing, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Pattern Recognition, Heliyon, International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems.