Curriculum Vitae

Personal Information

Full name: Felipe José Bravo Márquez
Nationality: Chile.
Date of Birth: 3rd of January 1984.
Chile Address: Avenida Beauchef 851, of. 304, Piso 3, Edificio Norte, Santiago, Chile / C.P. 837-0456
Phone number: +56 2 2978 4974
New Zealand Address: Department of Computer Science - Tari Rorohiko, The University of Waikato.
E-mail : fbravo at dcc.uchile.cl / fbravoma at waikato.ac.nz
Public profiles: personal website, DCC Uchile, FCFM Uchile, IMFD, Uchile, Google Scholar, Linkedin, GitHub, DBLP, ResearchGate, Scopus, Semantic Scholar, Web of Science, Orcid, ACL Anthology, Youtube, Twitter.
Areas of Interest: Natural language processing, Data mining, Data science, Machine learning, Information retrieval, Social media analytics, Computational social science, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics.

Academic Positions and Work Experience

[2019 - present] Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Chile.
[2024 -present] Principal Researcher, National Center for Artificial Intelligence Research (CENIA) .
[2019 - present] Young Researcher, Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD).
[2023 - present] Member, Data and Artificial Intelligence Initiative (ID&IA), Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (FCFM), University of Chile.
[2020 - present] Associate Member, Te Ipu o te Mahara, The Artificial Intelligence Institute at the University of Waikato.
[2019 - present] Honorary Research Associate, Machine Learning Group, University of Waikato.
[2021 - 2023] Associate Researcher, National Center for Artificial Intelligence Research (CENIA) .
[2017-2019] Research Fellow, Machine Learning Group, University of Waikato.
[2011-2013] Research Engineer, Yahoo! Labs Latin America.
[2009- 2011] Researcher and Software Developer, Web Intelligence Consortium Chile Research Centre.
[2009] Internship, Simple, Software Developer.
[2009] Internship, Previred, Business Process Management Area.
[2005-2006] Internship, Vitanet, Software Developer.

Qualifications

PhD. Computer Science, University of Waikato (Jul. 2017)
MSc. Computer Science, Universidad de Chile (Sep. 2013)
Computer Science Engineer, Universidad de Chile (Nov. 2010)
Industrial Engineer, Universidad de Chile (Nov. 2010)
BSc. in Industrial Engineering, Universidad de Chile (Oct. 2010)
BSc. Computer Science, Universidad de Chile (Jan. 2009)

Teaching

[CC6104] (Lecturer) Statistical Thinking (spring 2023, spring 2022, spring 2021), Computer Science Department, Universidad de Chile
[CC66S] (Lecturer) Machine Learning (spring 2023, spring 2022, spring 2020), Computer Science Department, Universidad de Chile (Professional Diploma in Artificial Intelligence)
[CC6205] (Lecturer) Natural Language Processing (fall 2023, fall 2022, fall 2021, fall 2020, spring 2019), Computer Science Department, Universidad de Chile
[CC5206] (Lecturer) Introduction to Data Mining (fall 2023, fall 2022, fall 2021, spring 2020, fall 2020, spring 2019, fall 2019), Computer Science Department, Universidad de Chile
[CC66E] (Lecturer) Data Mining (fall 2019), Computer Science Department, Universidad de Chile (Professional Diploma in Data Science)
[COMP321] (Lecturer) Practical Data Mining (spring 2018), Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato
(Lecturer) Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing (June 2018) IfI Summer School 2018 on Machine Learning, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich.
[COMP321] (Tutor) Practical Data Mining (spring 2017), Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato
(Lecturer) Databases Management Diploma (spring 2013), Department of Informatics Engineering (postgraduate), Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
[CC5206/CC71Q] (Lecturer) Data Mining (spring 2012), Computer Science Department (undergraduate and postgraduate), Universidad de Chile
[IN72K] (Lecturer) Information Technologies and Business Process Redesign (fall 2011), Master in Operations Management, Universidad de Chile
[IN4522] (TA) Web Mining (spring 2010), Industrial Engineering, Universidad de Chile
[IN7B0] (TA) ICT for globalization (spring 2010), Master in Management for Globalization, Universidad de Chile

Grants

As Principal Investigator

[2020 - ongoing] FONDECYT de Iniciación. Proyect Title: Tracking social public opinion: a stream-mining based approach. Code: 11200290
[2020 - ongoing] U-INICIA (CONCURSO DE REFORZAMIENTO DE INSERCIÓN PRODUCTIVA DE NUEVOS ACADÉMICOS VID UCHILE). Proyect Title (in Spanish): Inducción Incremental de Léxicos Afectivos desde Twitter. Code: UI-004/20

As Investigator

[2023-2024] FONDEF VIU23P 0110. Proyect Title (in Spanish): "DashAI: Una plataforma interactiva de experimentación en Inteligencia Artificial”. In this project, I serve as the supervisor of my master's student, Ignacio Nuñez who acts as PI.
[2019-2020] False News on Facebook during the 2017 Chilean Elections: Analyzing Its Content, Diffusion, and Audience Characteristic, The Social Science Research Council.

Service

[October 2023] Evaluation of a proposed undergraduate program at the University of Montevideo on Engineering in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence for the Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay.
Area Chair: EMNLP 2020 track "Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining".
Conference Program Committes: NAACL 2024, AAAI 2021, ACL 2021, TheWebConf 2021, ACL 2020, WISDOM 2020, NAACL 2019, LA-WEB 2019, WASSA 2018, WISDOM 2018, SEM-EVAL 2018, IJCAI-ECAI 2018, EMNLP 2017, WASSA 2017
Journal Reviewing: Digital Journalism, Plos One, ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), The Visual Computer (TVCJ), PeerJ Computer Science, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Natural Language Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Knowledge-based Systems, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine special issue on Computational Intelligence for Natural Language Processing.
Grant reviewing: Fondecyt de Iniciación en Investigación 2022.

University Administration

[2022 - ongoing] Elected member of the Departmental Council of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chile.
[2020-ongoing] Member of the academic committee of the Master in Data Science at the University of Chile,.
[2019-2019] I participated in the elaboration of the Master in Data Science at the University of Chile.

Technology transfer

[2022] I assisted the Chilean food company Agrosuper in its statistical experimentation methodology for production as part of an IMFD agreement.
[2020-2021] As part of an IMFD agreement, I assisted the Supreme Court of Chile in the development of an automatic classifier of court rulings.

Scholarships and Awards

[2022] TWAS-LACREP Young Scientist Award 2022 in the Engineering Sciences.
[2022] Recognition for outstanding contribution to the generation of scientific knowledge, University of Chile.
[2021] Best Full-time Teaching Award, Department of Computer Science, University of Chile.
[2017] University of Waikato Doctoral Publications Scholarship.
[2016] IEEE student travel grant to attend the 2016 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
[2014-2017] University of Waikato Doctoral Scholarship.
[2011-2012] National Scientific and Technological Research Commission (CONICYT) Scholarship for master’s degree studies at Chilean Universities.

Publications

Full list here

Students

PhD

[2022 - ongoing] Fabián Villena, Co-supervised with Jocelyn Dunstan, PhD, University of Chile.
[2019 - ongoing] Frank Zamora, PhD, University of Chile.
[2020 - 2023] Hernán Sarmiento, Co-supervised with Bárbara Poblete, PhD, University of Chile.
[2019- 2023 ] Juglar Díaz, Co-supervised with Bárbara Poblete, PhD, University of Chile.

Master

[2023 - ongoing] César Véliz, Master in Data Science, University of Chile.
[2023 - ongoing] Natalia Abarca, Co-supervised with Andrés Carvallo, Master in Data Science, University of Chile.
[2023 - ongoing] Victor Faraggi, Co-supervised with Jorge Silva, Master in Computer Science, University of Chile.
[2022 - ongoing] María José Zambrano, Master in Computer Science, University of Chile.
[2022 - ongoing] Ignacio Meza, Co-supervised with Edison Marrese and Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo, Master in Computer Science, University of Chile.
[2022 - ongoing] Ignacio Núñez, Master in Computer Science, University of Chile.
[2021 - ongoing] Jorge Ortiz, Master in Computer Science, University of Chile.
[2021 - 2023] José Cañete, Master in Computer Science, University of Chile.
[2021 - 2023] Gabriel Iturra, Master in Computer Science, University of Chile.
[2021 - 2023] Mauricio Araneda, Co-supervised with Denis Parra, Master in Computer Science, University of Chile.
[2020 - 2022] Matías Rojas, Co-supervised with Jocelyn Dunstan, Master in Computer Science, University of Chile.
[2020 - 2022] Javier Muñoz, Master in Computer Science, University of Chile.
[2019-2020] Pablo Badilla, Co-supervised with Jorge Pérez, Master in Computer Science, University of Chile.
[2019] Arun Khanchandani, Co-supervised with Bernhard Pharinger, Master in Computer Science, University of Waikato.
[2019-2020] Alan Ansell, Co-supervised with Bernhard Pharinger, Master in Computer Science, University of Waikato.

Undergraduate

[2023 - 2024] Millaray Valdivia, Computer Science Engineering, University of Chile.
[2022 - 2023] Rodrigo Urrea, Computer Science Engineering, University of Chile.
[2022 - 2023] Oziel Aguilera, Computer Science Engineering, University of Chile.
[2022 - 2023] Maximiliano Aguilar, Co-supervised with Claudia López, Computer Science Engineering, University of Chile.
[2021 - 2022] María José Zambrano, Co-supervised with Pablo Badilla, Computer Science Engineering, University of Chile.
[2021 - 2022] Ignacio Meza, Co-supervised with Amanda Williamson, Electrical Engineering, University of Chile.
[2019-2020] Cristián Tamblay, Computer Science Engineering, University of Chile.
[2019] David Trye, Co-supervised with Andreea Calude, "Māori Borrowings in Science Digital Media", Summer Research Scholarship, University of Waikato.
[2018] Nicole Chan, Co-supervised with Andreea Calude, "Social Media Meets Te Reo Māori Loanwords", Honours Project, University of Waikato.
[2018] Joshua Lovelock, Co-supervised with Eibe Frank, "Automatic Detection of Hate Speech", Honours Project, University of Waikato.
[2018] Tristan Anderson, Co-supervised with Bernhard Pfahringer, "Building Time-Evolving Opinion Lexicons", Honours Project, University of Waikato.
[2012-2013] Edison Marrese Taylor, Co-supervised with Juan Velásquez, "Diseño e Implementación de una Aplicación de Web Opinion Mining para Identificar Preferencias de Usuarios sobre Productos Turísticos de la X Región de los Lagos", Industrial Engineering, U. of Chile.
[2012] Luis Maldonado, Co-advisor with Mauricio Marín, "Análisis de Sentimiento en el Sistema de Red Social Twitter", Execution Informatics Engineering, U. of Santiago.

Short Courses

MLSS 2015, Machine Learning Summer School, February 16-25, 2015, Sydney, Australia.
Forecasting, a short course taught by Bruce E. Hansen at Central Bank of Chile, October 29-31, 2013.

Academic Visits

[July 2018] Institute of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich, hosted by Martin Volk.
[September 2017] Institute of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich, hosted by Manfred Klenner.
[October 2016] National Research Council Canada (NRC), hosted by Saif Mohammad.

Seminars and Talks

[January 2024] What are LLMs (large language models) and how do they work?, Digital Technologies and Indigenous Languages Workshop at DCC Uchile
[December 2023] Large Language Models Usage and Evaluation Patterns, CENIA seminar at DCC Uchile
[October 2023] JCC2023, Jornadas Chilenas de Computación, Concepción, Chile A Tour through the Language Models: from Shannon to GPT-4. Guest Speaker.
[July 2023] Escuela Internacional en Ciencias Sociales Computacionales 2023 (IMFD-CICADA-UMAD), Montevideo, Uruguay Talk 1: Natural Language Processing in the last decade. Talk 2: Introduction to Bayesian Inference.
[Agust 2023] IMFD & CENIA at Centro de Innovación UC, DashAI: An Interactive AI Experimentation Tool.
[July 2023] Unholster, DashAI: An Interactive AI Experimentation Tool.
[July 2023] Summer Institute in Computational Social Science, Chile 2023 A Tour through the Language Models: from Shannon to GPT-4. (slides)
[May 2023] A Tour through the Language Models: from Shannon to GPT-4. A talk given as part of the DCC, Uchile lecture cycle on language models. (slides)
[August 2022] Noche Cenia, Máquinas Dialogantes. An informal talk given in a pub in Santiago, Chile as part of the outreach activities of the National Center of Artificial Intelligence. (flyer)
[July 2022] Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). Tackling Fairness, Change and Polysemy in Word Embeddings.
[May 2022] Data Science Institute (DSI), Imperial College London. Tackling Fairness, Change and Polysemy in Word Embeddings.
[January 2022] First Friday Meeting at Facebook (Meta) Research. Will we ever understand Facebook's influence on elections? A scientists’ perspective.
[December 2021] AI Lab at PUC. Tackling Fairness, Change and Polysemy in Word Embeddings.
[August 2021] FCFM- Iniciativa de Datos e Inteligencia Artificial (D&IA), Análisis de emociones y sentimientos en medios de comunicación social.
[August 2021] Enaex Robotics, Introduction to Machine Learning
[October 2020] WOPATEC 2020 - CILCC-2020, Invited talk: Sesgo en Word Embeddings (acta congreso)
[January 2020] Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Seminario: Sistematizando la participación ciudadana. Análisis de emociones y sentimientos en medios de comunicación social.
[July 2019] AI Lab at PUC. Sentiment Analysis and NLP. Hosted by Álvaro Soto.
[June 2019] AMW Data Science School 2019. Tutorial: Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing.
[November 2018] Asia-Pacific iSchools Regional Meeting 2018 19 November 2018, Hamilton, New Zealand: Emotion Intensties of Tweets.
[March 2018] Natural Language Processing in NZ Meetup. Tutorial: Using Sentiment Analysis as a Case Study for Introducing Modern NLP Concepts.
[February 2018] University of Waikato. Tutorial: Using Sentiment Analysis as a Case Study for Introducing Modern NLP Concepts.
[January 2018] Universidad de Chile. Tutorial: Using Sentiment Analysis as a Case Study for Introducing Modern NLP Concepts.
[January 2018] Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile. Invited talk at CIWS Workshop - Future of Data: Emotion Intensties of Tweets.
[September 2017] Institute of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich: Acquiring and Exploiting Lexical Knowledge for Twitter Sentiment Analysis.
[October 2016] National Research Council Canada (NRC): Acquiring and Exploiting Lexical Knowledge for Twitter Sentiment Analysis.
[September 2016] University of Melbourne, hosted by Timothy Baldwin: Acquiring and Exploiting Lexical Knowledge for Twitter Sentiment Analysis.
[July 2016] Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile: Acquiring and Exploiting Lexical Knowledge for Twitter Sentiment Analysis.
[July 2016] Universidad de Chile: Acquiring and Exploiting Lexical Knowledge for Twitter Sentiment Analysis.
[June 2016] Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria: Acquiring and Exploiting Lexical Knowledge for Twitter Sentiment Analysis.

Software

Dash AI: An Interactive AI Experimentation Tool
WEFE: The Word Embeddings Fairness Evaluation Framework.
AffectiveTweets, a Weka package for analysing emotion and sentiment of tweets.
Contributor to the NLP modules of the WekaDeepLearning4j package.
Some code for building sentiment lexicons from tweets is here (the core of this code has been integrated into AffectiveTweets).

Shared Task Organisation

Co-organizer of the LChange'22 Semantic Change Detection in Spanish Task.
Co-organizer of the SemEval-2018 Task 1: Affect in Tweets.
Co-organizer of WASSA-2017 Emotion Intensity Detection Task.

Media Outreach

Technical Skills

Programming Languages: Java, R, Python, C,C++.
Database Systems: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB.

Languages

Spanish: Native.
English: Fluent, TOEFL IBT 103/120.
German: Average, Sprachdiplom Zweite Stufe.

References

Bernhard Pfahringer: Full Professor, University of Waikato.
Eibe Frank: Full Professor, University of Waikato.
Saif M. Mohammad: Senior Research Scientist, National Research Council Canada (NRC).

Felipe José Bravo Márquez

Santiago, Chile, March 1, 2024