Sebastian Alejandro Rios Perez
Profesor Asociado
Universidad de Chile
Santiago, Chile
Data Science, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Generative Topic Modeling, Business Intelligence, Helthcare Data Science
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Ingeniero Civil Industrial, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile
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Machine Learning, Data Science, NLP, UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO. Japón, 2007
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Engineering Sciences, Minor on Computer Science, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2003
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Engineering Sciences, Minor on Industrial Engineering, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2001
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Profesor Asociado Full Time
UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE
Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas
Santiago, Chile
2008 - At present
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Director Part Time
Business Inteligence Research Center (CEINE)
Chile
2012 - At present
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Jefe Proyecto U-Cursos Part Time
Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas
Santiago, Chile
1999 - 2001
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Jefe de Proyectos ADI Part Time
Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas
Santiago, Chile
2001 - 2003
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Team Leader, Business Process Engineering Part Time
Sistema Nacional de Comunicaciones Financiero
Santiago, Chile
2003 - 2003
Within the University of Chile:
I regularly participate in three graduate programs within the Industrial Engineering Department (DII):
- Master in Business Engineering with Information Technology (MBE)
- Master in Operations Management (MGO)
- Doctorate in Engineering Systems (DSI)
More incidentally in:
- Master of Science in Engineering, Computer Mention (at the Depart. of Computer Science - DCC)
- Master in Communication Network Engineering (at the Depart. of Electrical Engineering - DIE)
Graduated PhD.
I have participated as a Doctoral Referee and co-advised a Ph.D. Thesis in the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence of the University of the Basque Country, Spain. (October 2016 and 2017 respectively).
- Felipe Aguilera (Doctoral Program on Computer Science, University of the Basque Country)
- Arkaitz Artetxe (Doctoral Program on Computer Science, University of the Basque Country)
Ongoing PhD Students:
- Constanza Contreras (DSI, U. de Chile)
- Juan Pablo Hormazaval (DSI, U. de Chile)
- Ricardo Muñoz (DSI, U. de Chile)
- Pablo Cleveland (DSI, U. de Chile)
- Pablo Lemus (DSI, U. de Chile)
- José Arenas (DSI, U. de Chile)
- Fabian Garcia-Tenorio (DSI, U. de Chile)
- Vezna Sabando (Doctoral Program on Public Health, U. of Chile)
Graduated PhDs
- Patricio Wolff (DSI, U. de Chile)
- Felipe Aguilera (University of Basque Country, Spain. Co-advisor)
* 2 thesis as a invited professor (Doctoral Program in Computational Intelligence - University of Basque Country)
I have participated in about 50 theses of Magister as a guide teacher, co-guide, member and sponsor since 2008 in these programs.
Regarding the thesis of Magister in global figures it is possible to list (until june 2020):
* 34 theses as a guide teacher (16 in DII programs and 1 DCC thesis)
* 5 theses as a co-guiding professor (3 within the DII, 1 in the DIE and another in the DCC)
* 37 theses as a member teacher
* 1 thesis as a sponsoring teacher (DII MBA program)
Regarding the undergraduate theses in general figures are shown in the following summary (until September 2017):
* 56 memories as supervisor
- 49 for the degree of Industrial Civil Engineer (DII)
- 7 for the degree of Civil Engineer in Computing (DCC)
* 21 memories as teacher co-supervisor
- 18 for the degree of Industrial Civil Engineer (DII)
- 2 to qualify for the degree of Civilian Electrical Engineer (DIE)
- 1 for the degree of Civil Engineer in Computing (DCC)
* 27 memories as a member teacher
Outside the University of Chile at local Universities (prof. Member of 4 master thesis and 1 doctorate)
I have participated as a member in several theses of prestigious national universities:
- Universidad de Concepción: 2 theses for the Master's degree in Industrial Engineering.
- University of Santiago: 1 thesis for the degree of Master in Computer Science.
- Technical University Federico Santa María: 1 thesis for the degree of Master of Science in Computer Engineering and 1 thesis for the degree of Doctor in Computer Engineering.
I have teached at University of Chile the following courses:
* IN7615-1 Aprendizaje Automático con Redes Neuronales (Machine Learnning with Neural Networks), since 2021.
* IN7580-1 Introducción a la Ciencia de Datos (Introduction to Data Science) since 2018 once a year.
* IN5502-1 Diseño de Procesos de Negocios (Business Process Design) twice a year since 2011-2019, once a year since 2019-2021
* IN7J0-1 Introducción a la Ciencia de Datos (Introduction to Data Science) spring 2018
* IN72K-1 Tecnologías de Información y Rediseño de Procesos (Information Technologies and Process Redesign) fall 2016-2018, spring 2012-2014, fall 2008-2011
* IN7J2-1 Taller de Data Mining (Data Mining Workshop) - in 2015 fall
* IN3501-1 Tecnologías de Información y Comunicaciones para la Gestión (Information and Communication Technologies for Management) in 2011 fall, 2012 Otoño, 2011 Primavera y 2009 Otoño
* IN7N2-1 Tecnologías de información (Information Technologies) in 2011 Spring
* IN55A-1 Diseño de Sistemas de Información Administrativos (Administration Systems Design) in 2010 spring, 2010 fall, 2009 spring, 2009 fall y 2008 spring
Difusión en Medios (selected)
Radio & TV
1. Chanel 13C, Documentary, April 26th 2017 “Proyecto ALMOHADITA” (English: “ALMOHADITA PROJECT”) http://www.13.cl/c/programas/ingenio/capitulos/26-abril-2017-almohadita
2. 24Horas, National Television of Chile. June 3rd 2011 “Terminó la era del Copy and Paste” (English: “The end of the era of Copy and Paste”)
3. Radio Program New Mind, Radio Canal13, August 31st 2016.“Proyecto Fondef Almohadita” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of8290VZ9lY)
Newspaper
1. Financial Newspaper, Health Prortfolio, March 26th 2018“Almohadita: monitoreo a distancia para niños” (Almohadita: distance monitoring for kids)
2. Special Editions, el Mercurio, Business Intelligence, March 20th 2018“Las organizaciones cometen 5 errores al realizar proyectos de inteligencia de negocios” (EN: “The organizations fall into 5 mistakes when performing Business Intelligence Projects”)
3. Special Editions, El Mercurio. March 28th 2016“Investigación en Inteligencia de Negocios para una Ciudad Inteligente” (EN: “Business Intelligence Research for a Smart City”)
4. Special Editions, El Mercurio. March 28th 2016.“Los profesionales de datos son cada vez más demandados para facilitar la toma de decisiones” (EN: “Data Scientist are getting more required to facilitate dacition making process”)
5. Tendencies, La Tercera, December 25th 2011.“Software que evita queniños copien. Proyecto del Grupo de TI de Ingeniería Industrial Destacado entre los 10 Hitos Científicos del 2011 en Chile” (EN: “Software to stop children from copy their homework. Project from TI group from Industrial Engineering between the top 10 cientific milestones of 2011 in Chile”)
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Award to Excellence and Pertinence of Research
UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE
Chile, 2017
Publications of Prof. Ríos during 2016 were ranked (IF) among top 15% of all publications made at University of Chile.
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Best Paper Award
International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation (IWINAC 2017)
España, 2017
Best paper of the conference IWINAC, with algorithms for readmission in pediatric hospitals
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Finalist Best Paper Award
18th Annual Conference Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems Society (KES 2014)
Polonia, 2014
Nominee to best paper at KES 2014 conference.
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World Champions 2011
5th evaluation lab on uncovering plagiarism, authorship, and social software misuse
Alemania, 2011
World champions of the Copy detection competition,PAN 2011 -Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse. Yahoo! Research Labs.
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Distinguished as TOP 10 Scientific Projects in Chile
CONSEJO NACIONAL DE CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGIA
Chile, 2011
The DOCODE Project to detect plagiarism was Distinguished as TOP 10 Scientific Projects in Chile, by the national cientific and technology council - CONICYT.
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5th Place, Worldwide Copy Detection Competition
Yahoo! Research Labs
Alemania, 2010
Our algorithms to detect plagiarism were in 5th Place, in the Worldwide Copy Detection Competition, PAN 2010 -Uncovering Plagiarism, Authorship, and Social Software Misuse. Yahoo! Research Labs.
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Best Invited Session Award
13th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering(KES 2009)
Reino Unido, 2009
Awarded to prof. Ríos for the best invietd session (regarding contents and speakers) from the whole KES conference
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Mombukagakusho Scholarship
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Japón, 2004
Scholarship to study PhD. course at University of Tokyo in Japan.
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Innovation in the Academia
UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE
Chile, 2020
Once a year the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics Sciences award one researcher in the category of Assistant Professor and another in the associate/full professor. Sebastian won the Assistant professor category for his outstanding contribution with its applied research in data science in health care. Sebastian has developed several systems/algorithms that are in production in several hospitals in a daily bases producing huge benefits for society and the hospitals.
Knowledge- Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems |
Computational Intelligence in Remote Sensing: An Editorial |
Desarrollo y evaluación de un modelo de intervención basado en tecnologías de la información y de la comunicación (TlCs) para reducir el riesgo de suicidio adolescente en establecimientos educacionales de la RM y la Vl Región |
“Cyber-Physical Systems for PEdagogical Rehabilitation in Special Education (CybSPEED)” |
Desarrollo y Evaluación de Algoritmos de Data Mining para la Predicción del Riesgo de Crisis en Pacientes Ambulatorios de un Hospital Pediátrico |
Desarrollo e implementacion de una herramienta computacional para la deteccion de copias en documentos digitales en la educacion=> document copy detector (docode) |
Semantic Web Mining Techniques to Study Enhancements of Virtual Communities |