Researchers
Leopoldo Bertossi
Leopoldo Bertossi is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Engineering
and Sciences, "Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez" (UAI) in Santiago,
Chile), where he is the Director of the Graduate Program in Data
Science. He is also a Senior Fellow of the UAI.
He is an Emeritus Professor of the School of Computer Science,
Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada), a Senior Researcher at the
"Millenium Institute on Foundations of Data" (IMFD, Chile), and a
member of the Academic Network of RelationalAI Inc.
He has a Bachelor, a Masters and a PhD degrees in Mathematics by the "Pontificia
Universidad Catolica de Chile" (PUC). His research interests are related to Data Science
and Artificial Intelligence in general. His research has been concentrated in the
areas of computational logic, knowledge representation, data management, ontologies,
uncertain reasoning, causality, and machine learning.
He has been professor at the Faculties of Mathematics and
Engineering at the PUC (until 2001), visiting professor at the
University of Toronto and the University Wisconsin-Milwaukee; and
also an invited researcher at the Technical University of Vienna,
Technical University of Berlín, University of Marseille-Luminy,
University of Calabria, and University of Bolzano-Bozen.
He has also been the President of the "Chilean Computer
Science Society" (SCCC).
leopoldo.bertossi [at] uai.cl
Gonzalo Ruz
Gonzalo A. Ruz received his B.Sc. (2002), P.E. and M.Sc.
(2003) degrees in Electrical Engineering from Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
He then completed his Ph.D. degree (2008) at Cardiff University, UK.
Currently, he is a Professor and Research Director at the
Faculty of Engineering and Sciences, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile.
His research interests include machine learning,
evolutionary computation, data mining, gene regulatory network modeling,
and complex systems.
gonzalo.ruz [at] uai.cl
Tamara Fernández
From October 2020, She is an Assistant professor at
the Faculty of Engineering and Science of Adolfo
Ibañez University (Viña del Mar, Chile).
Previously, She was a Postdoctoral research associate at the
Gatsby Unit, working with Arthur Gretton. I joined the Gatsby
Unit in 2018 as a Biometrika Postdoctoral Fellow.
In 2018, She obtained her DPhil in Statistics at the
University of Oxford, under the supervision of
Yee Whye Teh. Her work has been focused on extending
modern machine learning techniques to classical
statistical problems, in particular to Survival Analysis.
t.a.fernandez [at] ucl.ac.uk
Adrián Soto Suárez
Adrián Soto Suárez is a Software Engineer and a
PhD in Computer Science from Universidad Católica in Chile. He is a faculty member at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez since 2020.
His research interests include semantic web, data management,
DBMS implementation and algorithms for efficient query processing.
He has also been involved in both, academic and practical projects,
that make use of graph analytics techniques and graph databases.
adrian.soto [at] uai.cl
Moreno Bevilacqua
Moreno Bevilacqua received his PhD (2008) in Statistics
from University of Padova, Italy.
Currently, he is a Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Sciences,
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Viña del Mar, Chile.
He worked as Full Professor a the Statistics Department of
University of Valparaiso (Valparaiso, Chile) from 2012 to august 2020.
He has carried out research as: a post-doc at the
Statistics Department of University Ca'Foscari of Venice (Italy)
from May 2008 to December 2010, a research fellow at the University
of Bergamo (Italy) from January 2011 to July 2012.
moreno.bevilacqua [at] uai.cl
Miguel Romero
Miguel Romero received his M.Sc. in Computer Science and
Mathematical Engineering degree (2012) from Universidad de Chile.
He then completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science (2016) also at
Universidad de Chile. Since 2020, he is an assistant professor at the
Faculty of Engineering and Sciences, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (UAI), Santiago, Chile.
Before joining UAI, he was a research fellow at the
Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing in UC
Berkeley and a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of
Computer Science of University of Oxford.
His research interests include algorithms and complexity,
computational logic, data management and Web data.
miguel.romero.o [at] uai.cl
Susana Eyheramendy
Susana Eyhereamendy is Full Professor at the Faculty of
Engineering and Sciences at the Adolfo Ibáñez University,
she is Doctor of Statistics at Rutgers University,
United States, 2004. She is an associate member
of the Millennium Institute of Astrophysics (MAS)
in charge of the astro-statistical group. Her research
is based on the modeling, analysis and interpretation
of large databases, especially in the areas of astronomy
and genetics.
In this last field, his emphasis is on trying to
understand the genetic basis of common diseases,
using novel statistical methods. Recently, he has
also paid special attention to the study of the population
genetics of Chileans. He is currently studying the genetic
basis of growth development and BMI in the children of
the GOCS cohort. In the area of astro-statistics, she has worked,
using machine learning techniques, on the classification of
variable stars as well as other astronomical objects.
Susana is a member of the scientific committee of Alerce
(web: alerce.science). The ALeRCE broker is a Chilean-led
broker which is processing the alert stream from the
Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and which aims to become
a Community Broker for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and
its Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), as well as
other large etendue survey telescopes. We are using Cloud
Infrastructure and Machine Learning models to bring
real-time processed products and services to the astronomical
community. Part of Susana's research in this area is dedicated
to the development of models for irregularly observed time series,
to be implemented in ALerce.
susana.eyheramendy [at] uai.cl
John Atkinson
John is currently a full professor at the Faculty
of Engineering and Sciences, Universidad Adolfo
Ibañez (UAI), Santiago, Chile, Director of the
Diploma in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Master
in AI, and researcher at the UAI Smart Center.
Previously, He was a full professor and head of the
Department of Computer Sciences, at the Universidad
de Concepción, Concepción, Chile, where he was also
the founder and director of the Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory (2004-2016). He was also an assistant professor
at the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria (UTFSM,
Valparaiso, Chile), and a Lecturer at the Pontificia
Universidad Católica de Valparaiso. He received a PhD in
Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh,
Scotland (UK), and a B.Eng and M.Eng degrees in Computer
Sciences from UTFSM, Chile. Furthermore, he has been a
visiting researcher at University of Cambridge (UK),
MIT (Boston, USA), INRIA-Loria (Nancy, France),
University of Western Ontario (London, Canada),
University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, UK), and IBM T.J
Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, NY, USA).
Over the last 25 years, John has been involved in teaching,
research and consulting in Chile and universities and
research centers worldwide.
In 2010, John received the ACM Senior Member Award
for international contributions to computer sciences
in the scientific and practical side.
John is actively involved in basic and applied research
in the areas of Natural-Language Processing, Text Mining and
Text Analytics, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence.
Some of his research has currently being applied to address
complex problems in private companies including intelligent
text analysis and mining, predictive models for fraud detection,
opinion mining, intelligent interfaces, and
question-answering systems. In addition, he is an AI consultant
for several national and international private companies.
john.atkinson [at] uai.cl
Sebastián Moreno
Sebastián Moreno received his master of Science and
PhD in Computer Science from Purdue University in 2011
and 2014, respectively. Currently, Sebastián is a faculty
member at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (2017),
head of the Master of Science in Engineering
(TI specialization, 2018), and the head of
Computer Engineering (2020).
His research interests include data mining,
machine learning, and relational learning.
In particular, his main work focuses on
statistical network analysis, developing
computationally and statistically efficient
algorithms for network analysis.
Currently, he has more than 20 papers among the
most important conferences in computer
science and JCR journals. He has also participated
as program committee in more than 30 conference
including the most important conferences
of his area such as NeurIPS, KDD, WWW, and ICDM.
sebastian.moreno [at] uai.cl
Raimundo Sánchez
Endurance Sports Scientist, Doctor in Complex Systems Engineering.
Interested in applications of wearable devices for studying
physical activity.
Endurance Athlete, has completed several marathons and ultra marathons.
raimundo.sanchez [at] uai.cl
Rodolfo Abanto
Rodolfo Abanto Canto got his master’s degree in Statistics at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in 1999.
Since 2011 he has been an instructor professor at the Engineering and Sciences Faculty of the Adolfo Ibáñez University. He teaches in the statistical courses of Civil Engineering and Business Administration majors. He was the director of the statistics area between 2012 and mid-2020.
He has developed statistical consultancy work for different institutions in the field of market, opinion and scientific research. He is currently working on innovations about teaching and learning of statistics.
Ha has also taught at technical institutes, higher institutes and universities for graduates and undergraduates.
rodolfo.abanto [at] uai.cl
Rolando De La Cruz
He is currently an Associate Professor of Statistics and Data Science at the Faculty of Engineering and Sciences of the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. He received a Ph.D. in Statistics from Universidad Católica de Chile in 2005.
His research interests include Bayesian Learning; Biostatistics; Data Science and Statistical Learning; Joint Modeling; Functional and Longitudinal Data Analysis; Parametric and Nonparametric Bayesian Statistics; Spatial Statistics; Statistical Computing.
He is the director of our Executive Master in Data Science .
rolando.delacruz [at] uai.cl