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Denis Alejandro Parra Santander

Profesor Asociado

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; INTELLIGENT USER INTERFACES; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS

Educación

  •  INFORMATION SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH. Estados Unidos, 2013
  •  CIENCIAS DE LA INGENIERIA MENCION INFORMATICA, UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE. Chile, 2004
  •  INGENIERIA CIVIL EN INFORMATICA, UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE. Chile, 2004

Experiencia Académica

  •   Profesor Asociado Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Ingeniería

    Santiago, Chile

    2013 - A la fecha

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Profesor Adjunto Part Time

    Universidad Austral de Chile

    Valdivia, Chile

    2003 - 2004

  •   Profesor Adjunto Part Time

    Universidad Austral de Chile

    Valdivia, Chile

    2006 - 2007

  •   Investigador en Pasantia Full Time

    Trinity College Dublin

    Dublin, Irlanda

    2009 - 2009

  •   Investigador en Pasantia Full Time

    Telefonica I+D

    Barcelona, España

    2010 - 2010

Formación de Capital Humano


(Actualizado en marzo de 2021)
- Ha guiado 6 tesistas de magíster
- Actualmente guía a 4 alumnos de doctorado
- Actualmente guía a 7 alumnos de magíster
- Actualmente guía a 3 alumnos de pregrado


Difusión y Transferencia


April 2021: general co-chair of the ACM IUI 2021 is the 26th annual meeting of the intelligent user interfaces
https://iui.acm.org/2021/committee_members.html

July 2017: Organizes workshop open to public on Interactive User Interfaces and Recommender Systems
http://socvis.ing.puc.cl/lair2017

August 2016: Organizes a full day of public tutorials on Data Science, the Data Science Day 1: Information VIsualization
https://github.com/PUC-SocVis/DataScience-Day1


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Outstanding Reviewer Award

    WWW 2017 Conference

    Australia, 2017

    As part of the programa committee of the WWW Conference, I was distinguished with and outstanding reviewer award for my dedication and contribution on providing rich feedback to authors submitting their works to the conference.

  •   Outstanding paper award

    IUI '19: 24th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

    Estados Unidos, 2019

    Outstanding paper award: The effect of explanations and algorithmic accuracy on visual recommender systems of artistic images By Vicente Dominguez, Pablo Messina, Ivania Donoso-Guzmán, Denis Parra IUI '19: 24th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3301275.3302274

  •   2nd Best Student paper Award

    Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP)

    España, 2011

    2nd best student paper award at the 19th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, UMAP 2011, in Girona, Spain: Walk the Talk: Analyzing the relation between implicit and explicit feedback for preference elicitation Denis Parra. U. of Pittsburgh Xavier Amatriain, Telefonica Research

  •   Best Paper Honorable Mention

    ACM Intelligent User Interfaces conference

    Japón, 2018

    Best Paper Honorable Mention for the conference article "An Interactive Relevance Feedback Interface for Evidence-Based Healthcare" by Ivania Donoso-Guzmán and Denis Parra


 

Article (23)

Algorithmic and HCI Aspects for Explaining Recommendations of Artistic Images
Automatic document screening of medical literature using word and text embeddings in an active learning setting
GENE: Graph generation conditioned on named entities for polarity and controversy detection in social media
Social QA in non-CQA platforms
Content-based artwork recommendation: integrating painting metadata with neural and manually-engineered visual features
IntersectionExplorer, a multi-perspective approach for exploring recommendations
Moodplay: Interactive music recommendation based on Artists' mood similarity
Tag-based information access in image collections: insights from log and eye-gaze analyses
Using Twitter to Infer User Satisfaction With Public Transport: The Case of Santiago, Chile
Inferring modes of transportation using mobile phone data
Investigating the utility of the weather context for point of interest recommendations
Predicting process behavior meets factorization machines
Gaining historical and international relations insights from social media=> spatio-temporal real-world news analysis using Twitter
Linking information and people in a social system for academic conferences
Monitoring obesity prevalence in the United States through bookmarking activities in online food portals
Visualization and recommendation of large image collections toward effective sensemaking
Agents Vs. Users
Interactive recommender systems: a survey of the state of the art and future research challenges and opportunities
Twitter in academic events: A study of temporal usage, communication, sentimental and topical patterns in 16 Computer Science conferences
Using QR codes to increase user engagement in museum-like spaces
User-controllable personalization: A case study with SetFusion
See What you Want to See: Visual User-driven Approach for Hybrid Recommendation
Visualizing Recommendations to Support Exploration, Transparency and Controllability

ConferencePaper (19)

Data Mining for Item Recommendation in MOBA Games
Recommender Systems for Online Video Game Platforms: the Case of STEAM
The Effect of Explanations and Algorithmic Accuracy on Visual Recommender Systems of Artistic Images
An interactive relevance feedback interface for Evidence-Based Health Care
Learning to Leverage Microblog Information for QA Retrieval
Are real-world place recommender algorithms useful in virtual world environments?
Good times bad times: A study on recency effects in collaborative filtering for social tagging
Identifying relevant messages in a twitter-based citizen channel for natural disaster situations
Language, Twitter and academic conferences
Retrieving relevant conversations for Q&A on Twitter
Towards improving Top-N recommendation by generalization of SLIM
Utilizing online social network and location-based data to recommend products and categories in online marketplaces
A study of mobile information exploration with multi-touch interactions
How groups of people interact with each other on twitter during academic conferences
Recommending items in social tagging systems using tag and time information
The effect of different set-based visualizations on user exploration of recommendations
Twitter in academic conferences: Usage, networking and participation over time
A field study of a visual controllable talk recommender
Visualizing recommendations to support exploration, transparency and controllability

Proyecto (7)

HARNESSING INFORMATION VISUALIZATION AND INTERACTIVITY TO DEVELOP INTERFACES FOR EXPLAINABLE AI
Usando Inteligencia Artificial para Amplificar la Creación Artística Musical
Instituto Milenio de Investigación sobre los Fundamentos de los Datos
Observatorio Digital de Delincuencia en Chile=> Un sistema inteligente de apoyo a la industria automotriz chilena, en el robo de vehículos y accesorios
Dealing with Information Overload using Intelligent Recommender System Interfaces
Visualization and Recommendation of Large Image and Text Collections toward Effective Sensemaking
NSF EAGER=> Modeling and Visualization of Latent Communities

Review (1)

Interactive recommender systems: A survey of the state of the art and future research challenges and opportunities
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Denis Parra

Profesor Asociado

Ciencia de la Computación

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

4
Alvaro Soto

Associate Professor

Computer Science

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

3
José Herrera

Científico de datos

Instituto Milenio Fundamento de los Datos

Santiago, Chile

2
Barbara Poblete

Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science

University of Chile

Santiago, Chile

2
Hans Lobel

Profesor Asistente

Departamento de Ingeniería de Transporte y Logística / Departamento de Ciencia de la Computación

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

2
Eduardo Graells

Researcher

CASE (Computer Applications in Science and Engineering)

Barceona Supercomputing Center

Barcelona, España

2
Ivania Donoso

Estudiante de doctorado

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Juan Herrera

Associate Professor

Department of Transport Engineering and Logistics

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Claudia López

Assistant Professor

Informática

UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA

Valparaíso, Chile

1
Marcos Sepúlveda

Assistant Professor

Computer Science

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Jorge Muñoz

Associate Professor

Departamento de Computación

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

Macul, Chile

1
Jaime Navon

Profesor Asociado

Ciencia de la Computación

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile, Chile

1
Marcelo Mendoza

Académico

Ciencias de la Computación

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Andrés Carvallo

Investigador

Centro Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial

Santiago, Chile