Carlos Castillo
ICREA Research Professor at ICREA - Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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SeniorCarlos Castillo is an ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra who leads the Social and Responsible Computing Research Group, blending 12+ years of research leadership with applied data science and web-scale systems. His work centers on algorithmic fairness and social computing, translating computer science into interventions with clear social significance across humanitarian, media, and public-sector contexts. He has progressed from early web engineering and analytics to senior research roles at Yahoo! Research and Qatar Computing Research Institute, and to directing data-science research and tech transfer at Eurecat. A Latinx migrant based in Barcelona, Carlos brings an explicitly interdisciplinary lens and lived perspective—queer and non-binary, using they/them pronouns—that informs inclusive research design. He also has entrepreneurial experience founding a CMS company serving Latin American public institutions, demonstrating a track record of moving ideas into impact. For a deeper view of his scholarship and publications, his research portfolio is available at chato.cl/science.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (23)
python10
network-analysis10
networkx10
cytoscape10
science10
artificial-intelligence9
machine-learning9
java7
elasticsearch-plugin7
elasticsearch-client7
ranking6
meilisearch6
elasticsearch5
latexmk4
latex3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
qcri-social/AIDR
Dec 2013 - Jul 2015
Contributions:456 commits, 24 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 7 months
disasterartificialmachine-learningdisaster-responseartificial-intelligence
chatox/networks-science-course
Jun 2018 - Dec 2022
A course on Network Science, including network formation models, structural patterns, and dynamic processes.
Contributions:777 commits, 608 pushes, 7 branches in 4 years 7 months
sciencestructural-patternspatternsstructuralnetwork-science
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