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General Information

Full Name Claudio Aracena
Email [email protected]
Website claudioaracena.com
Location Santiago, Chile

Education

  • 2021 - 2024
    PhD in Engineering Systems
    University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
  • 2015 - 2017
    Master of Information Technology and Master of Information Technology Management
    University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
  • 2008 - 2013
    Industrial Engineering, Major in Information Technology (with highest distinction)
    University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

Experience

  • Jan 2022 - Present
    Associate Researcher
    GobLab UAI - Adolfo Ibanez University, Santiago, Chile
    • Lead data science work for public sector projects, focusing on clinical NLP and air pollution forecasting initiatives.
  • Oct 2022 - Present
    Data Science Consultant
    Chilean Safety Association, Santiago, Chile
    • Design and pre-train Spanish clinical language models and related applications.
  • Oct 2019 - Dec 2021
    Data Scientist
    GobLab UAI - Adolfo Ibanez University, Santiago, Chile
    • Delivered analytics supporting grant applications and Congress bill analysis using natural language processing.
  • Jun 2023 - Sep 2023
    Fellow
    Data Science for Social Good Fellowship, Kaiserslautern, Germany
    • Built early relocation models to reduce response times for Red Cross ambulance teams.
  • Jul 2017 - Present
    Co-founder
    Chatbot Chile, Santiago, Chile
    • Developed custom chatbots and administration dashboards for local clients.
  • Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
    Project Engineer
    Center for Mathematical Modeling - University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
    • Predicted medical appointment no-shows for Luis Calvo Mackenna Hospital using machine learning models.
  • Oct 2015 - Dec 2016
    Associate Software Developer
    Data61, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Sydney, Australia
    • Built software for multimodal freight optimization within the 64knots team.
  • Oct 2014 - Jan 2015
    Research Intern
    VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic
    • Explored links between pupil dilation and emotional response with neural network analysis.
  • 2014
    Project Engineer
    Web Intelligence Centre - University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
    • Investigated connections between EEG, pupil dilation, and emotions, and coordinated AKORI project reporting.
  • Jan 2013 - Mar 2013
    Intern
    Infosys Limited, Bangalore, India
    • Developed a tweet classification pipeline, including data modeling and database implementation.

Teaching Experience

  • 2023 - Present
    Academic Director
    Adolfo Ibanez University, School of Government, Santiago, Chile
    • Oversee curriculum for the Diploma of Data Science for Public Policy.
  • 2020 - Present
    Lecturer
    Adolfo Ibanez University, School of Government, Santiago, Chile
    • Teach Machine Learning, Text Mining, and Data Science Project Scoping courses.
  • 2018 - 2022
    Lecturer
    University of Development, Faculty of Engineering, Santiago, Chile
    • Led the Storage and Data Capture course in the Master of Data Science program.
  • Feb 2018 - Aug 2018
    Trainer
    Intersect Australia, Sydney, Australia
    • Delivered live-coding workshops on Python, R, SQL, MATLAB, Bash, and Git.
  • Mar 2014 - Jul 2014
    Lecturer
    University of Chile, Department of Industrial Engineering, Santiago, Chile
    • Taught the Data Warehousing course.
  • 2012 - 2013
    Teaching Assistant
    University of Chile, Department of Industrial Engineering, Santiago, Chile
    • Supported Information Technologies, Web Mining, Knowledge Management, and Web and Business courses.

Selected Publications

  • Journal Papers
    • Dunstan, J., Vakili, T., Miranda, L., Villena, F., Aracena, C., Quiroga, T., Vera, P., Viteri, S., Rocco, V. (2024). A pseudonymized corpus of occupational health narratives for clinical entity recognition in Spanish. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 24(1), 204.
    • Aracena, C., Villena, F., Arias, F., Dunstan, J. (2022). Aplicaciones de aprendizaje automatico en salud. Revista Medica Clinica Las Condes, 33(6), 568-575.
  • Conference Papers
    • Garcia-Flores, R., Banerjee, S., Mathews, G., Vacher, B., Thorne, B., Borhan, N., Aracena, C., Tyshetskiy, Y. (2017). Analysis of Demand and Operations of Inter-modal Terminals. National Conference of the Australian Society for Operations Research.
    • {"Oweis, N. E., Aracena, C., George, W., Oweis, M., Soori, H., Snasel, V. (2016). Internet of Things"=>"Overview, Sources, Applications and Challenges. Second International Afro-European Conference for Industrial Advancement."}
    • Aracena, C., Basterrech, S., Snasel, V., Velasquez, J. D. (2015). Neural Networks for Emotion Recognition Based on Eye Tracking Data. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.
    • Slanzi, G., Aracena, C., Velasquez, J. D. (2015). Eye Tracking and EEG Features for Salient Web Object Identification. International Conference on Brain Informatics & Health.
  • Workshop Papers
    • {"Aracena, C., Miranda, L., Vakili, T., Villena, F., Quiroga, T., Nunez-Torres, F., Rocco, V., Dunstan, J. (2024). A Privacy-Preserving Corpus for Occupational Health in Spanish"=>"Evaluation for NER and Classification Tasks. Clinical NLP Workshop at NAACL."}
    • Aracena, C., Rodriguez, N., Rocco, V., Dunstan, J. (2023). Pre-trained Language Models in Spanish for Health Insurance Coverage. Clinical NLP Workshop at ACL.
    • Aracena, C., Dunstan, J. (2023). Development of Pre-trained Language Models for Clinical NLP in Spanish. Student Research Workshop at EACL.
    • Aracena, C., Villena, F., Rojas, M., Dunstan, J. (2022). A Knowledge-Graph-Based Intrinsic Test for Benchmarking Medical Concept Embeddings and Pretrained Language Models. LOUHI Workshop at EMNLP.
    • Aracena, C., Loyola, P., Slanzi, G., Matsuo, Y., Velasquez, J. D. (2015). Towards a Unified Replication Framework for EEG-based Emotion Classification. BrainKDD Workshop at ACM SIGKDD.
  • Policy Papers
    • {"Denis, G., Hermosilla, M. P., Aracena, C., Sanchez, A. R., Gonzalez, N., Pombo, C. (2021). Responsible use of AI for public policy"=>"Project formulation manual. Inter-American Development Bank Publications."}

Core Technical Skills

  • Programming: Python, R, JavaScript, SQL, PHP, Java, MATLAB, LaTeX
  • Frameworks: PyTorch, Hugging Face, Django, WordPress, AWS, Docker, Git
  • Tools: Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint
  • Operating Systems: Ubuntu, Windows

Distinctions

  • 2021 - 2024
    • ANID Scholarship for National PhD Programs
  • 2015 - 2017
    • Conicyt Becas Chile Scholarship
  • 2007 - 2013
    • University of Chile Scholarship (top 100 students in cohort)