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Leonardo Adrián Ferres

Research Professor

Universidad del Desarrollo

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Big Data, Mobile Phones, Data Science, Parallel Algorithms, Statistical Modeling

Educación

  •  Cognitive Science, Carleton University. Canada, 2004
  •  Licenciado, UNSJ. Argentina, 1997

Experiencia Académica

  •   Assistant Professor Other

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION

    Engineering

    Concepcion, Chile

    2008 - A la fecha

  •   Senior Researcher Full Time

    Carleton University

    Arts and Social Sciences

    Ottawa, Canada

    2006 - 2008

  •   Professor Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DEL DESARROLLO

    Engineering

    Santiago, Chile

    2016 - A la fecha

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Manager of Grammar and Dialog Design Full Time

    Mitercom

    Ottawa, Chile

    2000 - A la fecha

Formación de Capital Humano


Pedro Flores & Computer Science & Análisis e implementación de un sublenguaje de desrcipción de pendientes visuales para el enriquecimiento semántico de gráficos estadísticos & Apr 2011 & BEng

José Fuentes & Computer Science & Accessibility of Mathematical Expressions in Wikipedia & Apr 2011 & BEng

Michael Soza & Computer Science & Diseño e implementacion de herramientas de documentacion de software, inspirada en Literate Programming & Mar 2012 & BEng

Rodrigo Reyes & Computer Science & Exact parallel string matching in symmetric multiprocessing machines & Aug 2012 & MSc

Erick Elejalde & Computer Science & A task decomposition algorithm for string matching & 2014 & MEng

Patricio Sandaña & Computer Science & Geometric Columns Visualization & 2014 & BEng

Ricardo V\'asquez & Computer Science & Driver online para un sistema de Mask Data Preparation & 2014 & BEng


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Judges Award for Best Accessibility Technology

    W4A Conference

    Canada, 2007

    Best tool for accessing data graphs


 

Article (15)

Linking physical violence to women's mobility in Chile

Contreras, Hugo; Candia, Cristian; Troncoso, Rodrigo; Ferres, Leo; Bravo, Loreto; Lepri, Bruno; Rodriguez-Sickert, Carlos

Article ISI
EPJ DATA SCIENCE  (2023)

Estimating the effect of social inequalities on the mitigation of COVID-19 across communities in Santiago de Chile

Gozzi, Nicolo; Tizzoni, Michele; Chinazzi, Matteo; Ferres, Leo; Vespignani, Alessandro; Perra, Nicola

Article ISI
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS  (2021)

Evaluation of home detection algorithms on mobile phone data using individual-level ground truth

Pappalardo, Luca; Ferres, Leo; Sacasa, Manuel; Cattuto, Ciro; Bravo, Loreto

Article ISI
EPJ DATA SCIENCE  (2021)

Fast and compact planar embeddings

Ferres L.; Fuentes-Sepúlveda J.; Gagie T.; He M.; Navarro G.

Article ISI SCOPUS
Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications  (2020)

Gender gaps in urban mobility

Gauvin, Laetitia; Tizzoni, Michele; Piaggesi, Simone; Young, Andrew; Adler, Natalia; Verhulst, Stefaan; Ferres, Leo; Cattuto, Ciro

Article ISI
HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES COMMUNICATIONS  (2020)

News and the city: understanding online press consumption patterns through mobile data

Vilella, Salvatore; Paolotti, Daniela; Ruffo, Giancarlo; Ferres, Leo

Article ISI
EPJ DATA SCIENCE  (2020)

Power structure in Chilean news media

Bahamonde, Jorge; Bollen, Johan; Elejalde, Erick; Ferres, Leo; Poblete, Barbara

Article
PLOS ONE  (2018)

On the nature of real and perceived bias in the mainstream media

Elejalde, E; Ferres, L; Herder, E

Article ISI SCOPUS
PLOS ONE  (2018)

Quantifying the ecological diversity and health of online news

Elejalde, Erick; Bollen, Johan; Herder, Eelco; Ferres, Leo

Article
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE  (2018)

Shopping Mall Attraction and Social Mixing at a City Scale

Beiró, Mariano; Bravo, Loreto; Caro, Diego; Cattuto, Ciro; Ferres, Leo; Graells-Garrido, Eduardo

Article
EPJ Data Science  (2018)

Parallel construction of succinct trees

Fuentes Sepúlveda, José; Ferres, Leo; He, Meng; Zeh, Norbert

Article
THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE  (2017)

Parallel construction of wavelet trees on multicore architectures

Fuentes Sepúlveda, José; Elejalde, Erick; Ferres, Leo; Seco, Diego

Article
KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS  (2017)

Improving accessibility to mathematical formulas: the Wikipedia Math Accessor

Fuentes-Sepulveda, J; Ferres, L

Article ISI SCOPUS
New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia  (2012)

Modeling and querying graphical representations of statistical data

Dumontier M.; Ferres, L; Villanueva-Rosales, N

Article ISI SCOPUS
Journal of Web Semantics  (2010)

W4A 2010 - International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility Raleigh 2010: Foreward

Ferres, L; Shelly C.; Takagi H.; Asakawa C.

Article
1604-2004: SUPERNOVAE AS COSMOLOGICAL LIGHTHOUSES  (2010)

ConferencePaper (4)

Parallel Construction of Succinct Trees

Ferres, L; Fuentes-Sepulveda, J; He M.; Zeh, N

ConferencePaper ISI SCOPUS
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)  (2015)

Efficient Wavelet Tree Construction and Querying for Multicore Architectures

Fuentes-Sepulveda, J; Elejalde, E; Ferres, L; Seco, D.

ConferencePaper ISI
BIO-INSPIRED SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS: FROM ROBOTICS TO AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE, PT II  (2014)

Evaluating a tool for improving accessibility to charts and graphs

Ferres, L; Lindgaard G.; Sumegi L.

ConferencePaper
ASSETS 2010: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 12TH INTERNATIONAL ACM SIGACCESS CONFERENCE ON COMPUTERS AND ACCESSIBILITY  (2010)

Semantic annotation and question answering of statistical graphs

Dumontier M.; Villanueva-Rosales, N; Ferres, L

ConferencePaper
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)  (2008)

EditorialMaterial (2)

Introduction to the Special Issue on Web Accessibility

Ferres, L

EditorialMaterial ISI SCOPUS
New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia  (2012)

Introduction to Special Issue on Web Accessibility

Ferres, L

EditorialMaterial ISI
NEW REVIEW OF HYPERMEDIA AND MULTIMEDIA  (2008)

Proyecto (4)

Acceso Geo-Temporal a Sitios de Noticias de Chile Usando Trazas Digitales

INFORMACION CIENTIFICA (PLU180009)

Proyecto
2018-2019
Inv. Principal

Geo - Temporal factors in disease spreading and prevention in Chile

PCI (REDES17015)

Proyecto
2018-2019
Coinvestigador(a)

Desarrollo de una plataforma para el diagnóstico de la comprensión lectora y orientaciones para la intervención pedagógica

FONDEF (D08i1179)

Proyecto
2016-2018
Investigador(a)

Impacto geográfico de titulares de noticias en las redes sociales chilenas

FONDECYT (140001)

Proyecto
2014-2015
Inv. Principal

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Leonardo Ferres

Research Professor

Institute of Data Science

Universidad del Desarrollo

Santiago, Chile

7
Leonardo Ferres

UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION

Concepcion, Chile

3
José Fuentes

Profesor asistente

Ingeniería Informática y Ciencias de la Computaciónq

Universidad de Concepción

Concepción, Chile

1
Diego Seco

Associate Professor

DIICC

Universidad de Concepción

Concepción, Chile