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Ricardo Antonio Flores Huenchullanca

Assistant Professor

Universidad de Concepción

Concepción, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


AI, Data Science, Mental Health, Deep Learning for Healthcare, Multimodal Models (image, text, audio).

Educación

  •  PhD in Data Science, WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE. Estados Unidos, 2023
  •  M. S. - Economics , UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION. Chile, 2013
  •  Economics, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 2010

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Assistant Professor Part Time

    Universidad de Concepción

    Concepción, Chile

    2012 - 2013

  •   Data Analyst Full Time

    Central Bank of Chile

    Santiago, Chile

    2014 - 2018

  •   Postdoc, Data Fusion and Machine Learning Full Time

    Sanofi

    Boston, Estados Unidos

    2023 - 2024

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Difusión y Transferencia


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Premios y Distinciones

  •   Research Award

    WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE

    Estados Unidos, 2023

    Second place Data Science, Cybersecurity, and Computer Science category for the Graduate Research Innovation Exchange (GRIE), 2023. At Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), MA, USA

  •   Ph.D. Scholarship,

    COMISION FULBRIGHT-CHILE

    Chile, 2016

    Ph.D. Scholarship to study in the United States, supported by Fulbright Foreign Student Program and the National Agency for Research and Development (ANID), Chile.

  •   Innovator Of The Year

    BANCO CENTRAL DE CHILE

    Chile, 2015

    Innovator of the year, nominated by the Statistics Department of Central Bank of Chile.


 

Article (11)

Temporal Facial Features for Depression Screening
AudiFace: Multimodal Deep Learning for Depression Screening
DepreST-CAT: Retrospective Smartphone Call and Text Logs Collected during the COVID-19 Pandemic to Screen for Mental Illnesses
Early Mental Health Uncovering with Short Scripted and Unscripted Voice Recordings
Ensembles of BERT for Depression Classification
Impact assessment of stereotype threat on mobile depression screening using Bayesian estimation
Measuring the Uncertainty of Environmental Good Preferences with Bayesian Deep Learning
StudentSADD: Rapid Mobile Depression and Suicidal Ideation Screening of College Students during the Coronavirus Pandemic
Transfer Learning for Depression Screening from Follow-Up Clinical Interview Questions
Depression Screening Using Deep Learning on Follow-up Questions in Clinical Interviews
A Bayesian quantile binary regression approach to estimate payments for environmental services

ConferencePaper (2)

DeepScreen: Boosting Depression Screening Performance with an Auxiliary Task
Multi-Task Learning Using Facial Features for Mental Health Screening
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Ricardo Flores

Assistant Professor

Universidad de Concepción

Concepción, Chile