Experiences

Staff Machine Learning Engineer

• Genesys Telecommunications 2018 - Present
• Senior ML Engineer from 2018 - 2020
• I work finding ways to use Machine Learning for improving customers engagement with websites and optimising routing for call centres

Ph.D. Researcher

• Fujitsu Ireland Limited 2013 - 2018
• Projects KI2NA (2013-2015) and TOMOE (2015-2018)

Research Assistant

• Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Galway, Ireland. Reasoning and Querying Unit (URQ).

Lecturer

• Department of Computer Engineering, University of Santiago de Chile

Lecturer

• Faculty of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Central University of Chile

Research Intern

• Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Galway, Ireland. Reasoning and Querying Unit (URQ).

Project Engineer

• Yahoo! Research Latin America, in the project Fondef "Observatorios Escalables de la Web en Tiempo-Real"

Software Developer

• Kimn-IT Ltda, ICT Services, 2010
• Variable Information Panels project (VIP) for Public Transportation usin Spring MVC with JQuery

Software Developer

• Sigpro Ltda, ICT Services, Summer 2009 and Summer 2010
• Few system maintenances and development for government and private (insurance, professional services)
• C# .NET, ASP .NET, PHP, JavaScript, Flash ActionScript, Oracle, PostgreSQL

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Education

• Ph.D.
  • National University of Ireland, Galway 2014 - 2020
  • Thesis: "Knowledge graph mining with latent shape graphs" (link)
  • Supervisor: Matthias Nickles
• M.Sc. (summa cum laude)
  • University of Santiago de Chile 2008 - 2010
  • Thesis: "XML Keys: Implication and Validation Algorithms Implementation" (In Spanish) (link, slides)
  • Supervisors: Flavio Ferrarotti and Mauricio Marín

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Awards & Honours

• Recognised as EMNLP 2020 - Outstanding Reviewer [Cover of Proceedings]
• Winner of the third Linked Data Mining Challenge, In the 4th Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Meets Linked Data - Know@LOD 2015, Portoroz, Slovenia, May 31st, 2015 [certificate]
• Winner of the first Galway Startup Weekend with FriendShip It!! project, Galway, Ireland, November 16, 2014 [certificate]
• Winner of the first LD4IE 2014 Challenge with μRaptor system, In the 2nd International Workshop on Linked Data for Information Extraction - LD4IE 2014, Riva del Garda, Italy, October 20th, 2014 [certificate]
• Norman Revell Best Paper Award, In the 23rd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2012, Vienna, Austria, September 3-6, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science [certificate]
• First of the class, Master in Computer Engineering, Universidad de Santiago de Chile
• Master’s Fellowship, Yahoo! Research Labs Latin America, Master’s Thesis.
• Fees Grant for Masters program, Department of Informatic Engineering (DIINF), Universidad de Santiago de Chile
• President’s Scholarship "Juan Gomez Millas", Ministry of Education, Chile [Between 2000 and 2010]

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Services

• Reviewer for journals: Briefings in Bioinformatics (2019, 2020), Data & Knowledge Engineering (2018), BMC Bioinformatics (2018), SWJ (2017, 2020), J.UCS (2013).
• Reviewer for conferences: NAACL-HLT (2021), ACL/IJCNLP (2021), EACL (2021), CIKM (2020), EMNLP (2020), ACL (2020), AACL-IJCNLP (2020), AMIA (2014, 2015, 2017), ISWC (2017), DEXA (2013, 2014, 2019), RR (2013), EKAW (2014), AMECSE (2014).
• Reviewer for workshops: LinkedStartUp (2016).