Francisco Silva
Head Of Research Projects at Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional
Chile
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Top SchoolFrancisco Silva is a PhD computer scientist and Head of Research Projects at the Library of the National Congress of Chile, with 13 years designing AI-driven systems that make legislative and judicial information more accessible and interoperable. He blends deep technical mastery—Semantic Web, NLP, RAG-based generative AI, social network analysis, and big data—with hands-on software architecture and end-to-end project leadership, having built the nationally referenced History of the Law and Parliamentary Activity platform. A trusted adviser to Chilean judicial and legislative bodies, he led Akoma Ntoso XML adoption efforts to modernize document standards and enable long-term data sustainability. Francisco’s background in academia and industry, plus postgraduate training in statistics and data science, lets him translate research innovations into production-grade, explainable solutions that improve decision-making and transparency. An uncommon strength is his track record of coupling standards-based semantic architectures with advanced retrieval pipelines to power real-world RAG deployments for legal analytics.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD in Computer Science, A - Cum Laude, PhD in Computer Science, A - Cum Laude at Universidad de OviedoVisiting Research Scholar, Computer Science, Visiting Research Scholar, Computer Science at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa MaríaComputer Science Engineer, Computer Science Engineer at Universidad de la FronteraDiploma in Statistics, MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS, Diploma in Statistics, MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS at Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileCertified Associated Project Manager, Gestión de proyectos, Certified Associated Project Manager, Gestión de proyectos at Project Management Association ChileSpecialist Diploma in Big Data & Data Science, Specialist Diploma in Big Data & Data Science at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
Github Skills (18)
threshold8
reducers4
cryptography4
dns4
encryption4
ieee3
threaded3
realtime3
analytics3
parser2
aggregator2
docker2
pcap2
json2
c-library2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
imclab/tscrypto
May 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:208 commits in 1 year
niclabs/ratadns-fievel
Dec 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:3 releases, 29 PRs, 55 pushes in 6 months
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