Denis Santander
Associate Professor
Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
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Top SchoolDenis Santander is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile with 11 years of research and academic experience applying AI to medical imaging, recommender systems, and computational creativity. He leads the HAIVis Human-centered AI and Visualization Lab and serves as principal researcher at the Millennium iHealth institute and associate researcher at Chile’s National Center of Artificial Intelligence, bridging academic research and translational healthcare engineering. His work appears in top venues such as ACL, ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR and CVPR, reflecting a strong presence at the intersection of machine learning, visualization, and user-centered AI. Denis has international research experience including a sabbatical at KU Leuven’s Augment Lab and past collaborations in the US and Europe, which inform his multidisciplinary approach. Early industry and startup experience—co-founding a software company and interning at Telefónica I+D—give him practical insight into deploying user-adaptive systems. He combines rigorous PhD training in information science with hands-on lab leadership to advance AI systems that are both technically robust and human-centered.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Information Systems, Bachelor, Computer Science, Information Systems at Universidad Austral de ChileSocial Network Analysis, SNA, 85.5, Social Network Analysis, SNA, 85.5 at University of MichiganPhD, Information Science and Technology, PhD, Information Science and Technology at University of PittsburghResearch Internship, Computer Science, Research Internship, Computer Science at Trinity College, DublinInstituto Salesiano de Valdivia
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (12)
del10
recommender8
pytorch6
deep-learning5
deep-neural-networks4
visualization2
computer-vision2
ieee1
machine-learning1
wikimedia1
artificial-intelligence1
recommender-system1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
denisparra/denisparra.github.io
Feb 2015 - Aug 2024
Denis Parra Web Page, hosted at github
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 18 pushes in 9 years 8 months
ialab-puc/VisualRecSys-Tutorial-IUI2021
Jan 2021 - Apr 2021
Repository for "VisRec: A Hands-on Tutorial on Deep Learning for Visual Recommender Systems" at ACM IUI 2021 conference
Contributions:25 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
acmhands-onrecommenderdeep-learninghands
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