January 4 to January 9, 2023

MIT–Chile Research Workshop in
Artificial Intelligence, Data Visualization, and Causal Inference

In-Person at Universidad de Concepción

Collaborative initiative between Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Universidad de Concepción (UdeC) that brings together research-focused lectures and talks for the scientific community in Chile.

During this workshop, the public audience will have the opportunity to engage in research talks and discussion panels with researchers from MIT and UdeC.

Additionally, we'll offer a series of lectures focused on Human-Centered NLP, Causality, and Data Visualization.

There is no registration cost with any part of the workshop.


Important Dates

  • Application Opens: November 04, 2022

  • Application Deadline: December 05, 2022

  • Acceptance Notification: December 29, 2022

Participation Tracks

  1. Talks track: Open to the public. Registration required, which will open in late November.

Designed for invited speakers to share with the community state-of-the-art research advances in Human-Centered NLP, Data Visualization, and Causal Inference.

2. Student Cohort.

Students will have the opportunity to interact with lecturers, speakers, and fellow attendees, to imagine and demonstrate their skills acquired in our multi-disciplinary sessions.

2.1 Hands-on Lectures track: Open to our student cohort. Application required.

2.3 Lightning Talks: Open to our student cohort. Application required. We invite researchers working in any of the workshop topics to apply to give a Lightning Talk about your work. You don't need to be part of the student cohort to be accepted as a lightning talk.

2.3 Poster Presentation: Open to our student cohort. Application required. We invite all our applicants doing research to submit a poster about their work. If accepted, you'll have the chance to present it to the rest of the attendees. You don't need to be part of the student cohort to be accepted as a poster presentation.

Speakers & Team

Belén
Saldías

MIT, PhD Candidate
General Chair
Lecture & Talk

Guillermo
Cabrera

UdeC, Associate Professor
Program Chair, Local Chair & Talk

Pavlos
Protopapas

Harvard IACS, Program Director
Talk

Maggie
Hughes

MIT, PhD Candidate
Lecture & Talk

Mohit
Karnani

MIT, PhD Candidate
Lecture & Talk

Carlos Navarrete

U. Toulouse, PhD Candidate
Lecture & Talk

Pedro Salcedo

UdeC, Full Professor
Talk

Manuel Pérez

UdeC, Ass. Director Data Science Unit
Lecture

Roberto Asín

UTFSM, Professor
Talk

Cristobal Donoso

UdeC, Research Engineer YEMS
Lecture

Partners

Venue

Getting Here

UdeC, Concepción, Chile



For any inquiries (e.g., participation or sponsorship opportunity), please reach out to chileconf@media.mit.edu.