My interests
AI, Data Science, Mental Health, Deep Learning for Healthcare, Multimodal Models (image, text, audio).
About
I grew up in Puyehue, a town in North Patagonian of Chile. Then, I moved to study a B.S. in Business Engineering and a M.S. in Economics at the University of Concepcion. In 2014, I worked in the Statistics Department of the Central Bank of Chile. After four years working, supported by Fulbright and the National Agency for Research and Development Chile, I have been nominated for a PhD Data Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Massachusetts, USA (2018-2023). In 2024, I did a Postdoc in Data Fusion and Machine Learning at Sanofi company. Currently, I’m Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile.
Work and Academic Positions
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Present Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile.
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2023-2024 Postdoc Data Fusion and Machine Learning.
Apply multimodal models to multi-sensor tools for complex biological datasets at Sanofi.
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2022-2023 Research Assistant at Data Science Department
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), MA, USA.
Advisor: Elke A. Rundensteiner. -
2014 - 2018 Data Analyst
Department of Statistics, Central Bank of Chile.
Selected Awards
Ph.D. Scholarship (2018-2023)
Ph.D. Scholarship to study in the United States, supported by Fulbright Foreign Student Program and the National Agency for Research and Development (ANID), Chile.
Innovator of the year (2015)
Innovator of the year, nominated by the Statistics Department of Central Bank of Chile.
Masters scholarship (2012-2013)
National masters scholarship supported by National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT ) of Chile.
Research Projects
I have been working on a variety of projects related to Data Science, Economics and Statistics. For example, I have done some research on Healthcare, Environmental Valuation, Health Economics, and Housing Market.
