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Romina Debora Torres Torres

Profesor Asociado

Universidad Adolfo Ibánez

Viña del Mar, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


AI security and trustworthy AI; Explainable AI (XAI); AI for cybersecurity and cybersecurity for AI; Human-centric intelligent systems; AI-enabled systems in healthcare and critical infrastructures; Responsible AI; multi-stage attack detection;

Educación

  •  Computer Engineering / Computer Science, UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA. Chile, 2003
  •  Computer Engineering, UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA. Chile, 2014
  •  Computer Engineering, UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA. Chile, 2003
  •  Higher Education Teaching and Learning, UNIVERSIDAD ADOLFO IBANEZ. Chile, 2025
  •  Technology Policy / Emerging Technologies, DUKE UNIVERSITY. Estados Unidos, 2025
  •  cybersecurity, ISC2. Chile, 2024

Experiencia Académica

  •   Profesor Asociado Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD ANDRES BELLO

    Ingeniería

    Chile

    2013 - 2023

  •   Profesor Asociado Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD ADOLFO IBANEZ

    Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias

    Viña del Mar, Chile

    2023 - A la fecha

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Analista de Sistemas

    Software AG Chile

    Chile

    2005 - 2008

  •   Estudiante de Doctorado

    Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

    Chile

    2009 - 2014

  •   Ingeniero de Software

    Motorola Chile

    Chile

    2002 - 2004

  •   Arquitecto de Software

    Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

    Chile

    2010 - 2010

  •   Ingeniero de Software

    Synopsys, Inc.

    Estados Unidos

    2002 - 2002

  •   Ingeniero de Software

    KLA-Tencor, Inc

    Estados Unidos

    2001 - 2001

  •   Profesor jornada completa Full Time

    Universidad Nacional Andres Bello

    Viña del Mar, Chile

    2013 - A la fecha

  •   Director de carrera Ingeniería en computación e informática Full Time

    Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello

    Chile

    2013 - 2020

  •   Director de Programa de Postgrado Full Time

    Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello

    Chile

    2020 - 2023

  •   Chair, IT Advisory Committee Other

    Banco Central de Chile

    Santiago, Chile

    2023 - A la fecha

  •   Young Researcher Other

    Centro Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (CENIA)

    Chile

    2025 - A la fecha

  •   Scientific Committee Member Other

    Data Observatory

    Chile

    2025 - A la fecha

  •   Adjunct Researcher Other

    Cyber-Physical Systems Research and Technology Center

    Chile

    2025 - A la fecha

  •   Profesor Adjunto Full Time

    Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

    Viña del Mar, Chile

    2023 - A la fecha

  •   Visiting Researcher / Research Internship Other

    INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique)

    Paris (Rocquencourt), Francia

    2012 - 2012

Formación de Capital Humano


Supervision of over 30 undergraduate and postgraduate theses in areas such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, healthcare applications, and data science.
Recent topics include:
AI-based cybersecurity systems (e.g., intrusion detection, multi-stage attacks)
Explainable AI and decision-support systems in healthcare (e.g., cardiovascular disease detection)
Data science applications (e.g., fake news detection, energy prediction, public policy analysis)
Human-centric AI tools and educational technologies


Difusión y Transferencia


Active contributor to the dissemination and transfer of knowledge in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity across academic, public, and industry sectors.
Key contributions include:
Participation in national media (e.g., La Tercera, AméricaEconomía, Ciencia en Chile) to communicate cybersecurity and AI topics to broad audiences
Speaker at national and international events (e.g., Cyber Summit Chile, CyberSec Chile, Khipu AI), addressing emerging challenges in AI security and digital risk
Organizer of interdisciplinary events on trustworthy AI and cybersecurity (e.g., Trusted AI 2024, post-quantum cryptography initiatives)
Contributor to national policy development, including participation in the Chilean cybersecurity R&D report (Ministry of Science and Ministry of Interior) and related public policy discussions
Development and dissemination of applied knowledge through outreach activities, promoting AI literacy and cybersecurity awareness across diverse audiences
Focused on bridging research, policy, and real-world deployment of AI systems in Latin America.


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Mujer Destacada de Viña del Mar

    ILUSTRE MUNICIPALIDAD DE VIÑA DEL MAR

    Chile, 2020

    Once mujeres de diversos ámbitos del quehacer social fueron premiadas por la Municipalidad con la distinción “Mujer Destacada de Viña del Mar” que se entrega cada año, en el marco de la conmemoración del Día Internacional de la Mujer. Las mujeres destacadas este año fueron: Contribución a la Innovación: Romina Torres;

  •   Premio Sello UNAB: Conectar, Innovar, Liderar

    UNIVERSIDAD ANDRES BELLO

    Chile, 2020

    Este reconocimiento se otorgó a los académicos por su aporte al posicionamiento y liderazgo de la Universidad Andrés Bello en relación a su pilar estratégico de Investigación, Innovación y Emprendimiento. Así, estos investigadores destacan por su contribución no sólo a la excelencia sino a la transferencia del conocimiento de manera amplia, conectando el pregrado y postgrado con la investigación.

  •   Reconocimiento Grupo INCIBER

    CONGRESO NACIONAL

    Chile, 2019

    Reconocimiento del senado por su trabajo realizado para levantar el primer instituto nacional de cibserseguridad para el pacífico sur

  •   Reconocimiento ODS 5 ”Igualdad de g´enero y derechos de la mujer”

    UNIVERSIDAD ANDRES BELLO

    Chile, 2023

    Reconocimiento ODS 5 ”Igualdad de g´enero y derechos de la mujer”

  •   Reconocimiento: Mujeres en Ciberseguridad 202

    Alianza Chilena de Cibereseguridad

    Chile, 2022

    Alianza Chilena de Cibereseguridad

  •   Reconocimiento Internacionalización

    UNIVERSIDAD ADOLFO IBANEZ

    Chile, 2024

    UAI

  •   Best Student Paper Award – KES-AMSTA Conference

    KES International

    Croacia, 2012

    Awarded for the best student paper at the KES International Conference on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems (KES-AMSTA), recognizing excellence in research contribution and innovation.

  •   Recognition for Research with Undergraduate Students

    UNIVERSIDAD ANDRES BELLO

    Chile, 2019

    Awarded for outstanding contribution to research involving undergraduate students, promoting integration between teaching and research activities.

  •   Third Place – Latin American Master Thesis Competition

    UNESCO - CLEI – Latin American Center for Informatics Studies

    Peru, 2003

    Third place awarded in a Latin American competition recognizing excellence in master's thesis research in computer science.

  •   Third Place – EVIC Computational Intelligence Summer School

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

    Chile, 2012

    Third place awarded at the EVIC Summer School in Computational Intelligence for research contributions in intelligent systems.


 

Article (24)

SITeCard: A human-centric explainable intelligent system to support the cardiovascular rehabilitation process
TWEEF: Trustworthiness Estimation and Enhancement Framework for Machine Learning Models
Attacker Attribution in Multi-Step and Multi-Adversarial Network Attacks Using Transformer-Based Approach
Evaluating the Influence of Physical Activity on Gait Aging Using Multilevel Machine Learning
Volatility forecasting using deep recurrent neural networks as GARCH models
Explainability of Machine Learning Models for Hydrological Time Series Forecasting: The Case of Neuro-Fuzzy Approaches
Predicting Cardiovascular Rehabilitation of Patients with Coronary Artery Disease Using Transfer Feature Learning
Self-Organizing Topological Multilayer Perceptron: A Hybrid Method to Improve the Forecasting of Extreme Pollution Values
An Efficient Multi-Level Convolutional Neural Network Approach for White Blood Cells Classification
Femicide and Attempted Femicide before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chile
Impact of Remote Monitoring Technologies for Assisting Patients With Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review.
Visual-Predictive Data Analysis Approach for the Academic Performance of Students from a Peruvian University
Air quality assessment and pollution forecasting using artificial neural networks in Metropolitan Lima-Peru
A Dynamic Linguistic Decision Making Approach for a Cryptocurrency Investment Scenario
Characterization of the Chilean Public Procurement Ecosystem Using Social Network Analysis
From legacy-based factories to smart factories level 2 according to the industry 4.0
Self-improving generative artificial neural network for pseudorehearsal incremental class learning
An architecture based on computing with words to support runtime reconfiguration decisions of service-based systems
A market-based approach to the dynamic reconfiguration problem of service-based systems
Time-Based Hesitant Fuzzy Information Aggregation Approach for Decision-Making Problems
Modular neural network applied to non-stationary time series
Robust estimation of confidence interval in neural networks applied to time series
Robust expectation maximization learning algorithm for mixture of experts
Robust learning algorithm for the mixture of experts

ConferencePaper (18)

Predicting Next Phases of Multi-Stage Network Attacks: A Comparative Study of Statistical and Deep-Learning Models
A human-centric cyber security training tool for prioritizing MSNAs
A virtual platform skin tears learning tool
Machine learning techniques for behavioral feature selection in network intrusion detection systems
Taxonomies using the clique percolation method for building a threats observatory
Brigada Covid: Health education game for preschoolers
CyberKids: Video game for raising cyber security awareness in children
Framework to prioritize digital transformation initiatives based on the country's development impact
Building an IoT-aware healthcare monitoring system
Managing [email protected] with a linguistic decision making approach
Addressing the QoS drift in specification models of self-adaptive service-based systems
Mitigating the obsolescence of specification models of service-based systems
From virtual organizations to Self-organizing Web service compositions
Market-awareness in Service-based Systems
Mitigating the obsolescence of quality specifications models in service-based systems
Recommending APIs for mashup completion using association rules mined from real usage data
Web service compositions which emerge from virtual organizations with fair agreements
Mashup composition of web services using semantic virtual organizations [Composición de mashup de servicios web mediante organizaciones virtuales semánticas]

Proyecto (3)

Intrusion.aware: Plataforma integral para detectar y responder ciberataques usando inteligencia artificial responsable
Framework for detecting, monitoring and analyzing multi-stage cyberattacks evolution during runtime
Sistema Inteligente para la Tele-Rehabilitación de pacientes cardiovasculares
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Rodrigo Salas

Profesor Titular Jornada Completa

UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAÍSO

Valparaíso, Chile

4
Héctor Allende

Professor

Computer Science

UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARÍA

Valparaíso, Chile

10
Hernan Astudillo

Profesor Titular

Universidad Andrés Bello

Viña del Mar, Chile

2
Fabian Pardo

Profesor titular

Escuela de Medicina

Universidad de Valparaiso

San Felipe, Chile

2
Orietta Nicolis

Profesor Titular

Ciencias de la Ingenieria

Universidad Andrés Bello

Viña del Mar, Chile

2
Steren Chabert

Profesor Titular

Biomedical Engineering

Universidad de Valparaiso

Valparaiso, Chile

45
Romina Torres

Profesor Asociado

Ingeniería y Ciencias

Universidad Adolfo Ibánez

Viña del Mar, Chile

1
Miguel Solis

Director de Carrera

UNIVERSIDAD ANDRES BELLO

Santiago, Chile

1
julie Pelicand

Profesor titular

Escuela de Medicina campus San Felipe

Universidad de Valparaiso

San Felipe, Chile

1
ROBERTO LEON

Academic

Computer Science

Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

Santiago, Chile

2
Carolina Saavedra

Académica

Informática

Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

Valparaíso, Chile

1
Marcelo Tuesta

Profesor Asociado

Ciencias de la Rehabilitación

Universidad Andres Bello

Viña del Mar, Chile

2
Diego Mellado

Investigador

Universidad Andrés Bello

Viña del Mar, Chile

3
Ayleen Bertini

Docente Investigador

Facultad de Odontología

Universidad San Sebastián

Santiago, Chile

1
Cristian Ubal

Académico Jornada Completa

Cs. de Datos e Informática

Universidad de Playa Ancha de Ciencias de la Educación

Valparaiso, Chile

1
YEREL MORALES

Académico Adjunto

Ingeniería Civil

Universidad de Valparaíso

Valparaíso, Chile