Ethical, Accountable and Transparent Algorithms

Master of Public Administration, New York University, United States, 2016.
Journalist, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2004.
Director of GobLab UAI, the public innovation lab of the UAI School of Government, whose mission is to contribute to the transformation of the public sector through data science. She is the Academic Director of the Big Data for Public Policies Diploma Course, where she teaches ethical data management. Her area of expertise is public innovation, specifically how technology transforms the government, and innovations such as Big Data, open data, crowdsourcing and labs. As a research fellow at The Governance Lab of New York University, she worked in projects with the Inter-American Development Bank and the Organization of American States. From 2012 to 2014, she was Head of the Citizen Relations and Information Management Unit of the Public Works Ministry, where she led the redesign of citizen assistance services and the transparency and open data initiatives. From 2010 to 2011, she worked at the Ministries of Energy and Economy. She is a consulting fellow at The Governance Lab in New York. She is part of two government advisory committees: the Committee of Experts for the creation of a National Artificial Intelligence Policy (Ministry of Science) and the Ministerial Advisory Committee for the Transparency, Quality and Impact of Public Spending (Ministry of Finance).

European Doctor of Philosophy, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 2017. His research areas are Bioethics, Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Technique and Philosophical Anthropology. His interests are focused on some of the most relevant ethical problems today, mainly those that have to do with the relationship between technology and the human condition. He is also a specialist in Ortega y Gasset’s thought, whose philosophy he has used to address issues such as ecology or transhumanism. He has published various articles about these topics in prestigious journals.

At the UAI School of Communications and Journalism, he teaches and researches about digital work, platform economy and the role of algorithms in the organization of labor dynamics in the “gig economy". Director of Cultura Social Media (www.culturasocialmedia.com), a laboratory of digital communication studies belonging to the UAI School of Communications and Journalism. Director of the Fairwork project in Chile (fair.work), whose purpose is to research and promote good labor practices in the "gig economy”.

Diploma in Computer Law. Certified in Cybersecurity Leadership and Strategy by Florida International University, United States. She collaborates with the Ibero-American Data Protection Network since 2008 and is the founder of the Datos Protegidos NGO. She specializes in personal data protection, has taught numerous courses and seminars in Chile and abroad, and is currently an advisor for the public and private sector. In 2019, she was a finalist in the Leading Lawyers Ranking in the Data Protection category and was named an outstanding woman in cybersecurity by the Chilean Cybersecurity Alliance.

His areas of interest are analytical political philosophy, analytical philosophy of law, legal theory and metaethics. His work has been published in international journals such as the Journal of Social Philosophy, Prolegomena – Journal of Philosophy, and shortly, the Journal of Philosophical Research (2021). He has presented his work in international workshops at University College London, University of Manchester, University of Warwick, Universidad Autónoma de México, etc. He has taught seminars for master’s students at University College London. He is an active member of the “UK-Latin America (Analytical) Political Philosophy Network”. He’s an Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Liberal Arts since December 2017, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses.

Electrical Civil Engineer and Master of Engineering Sciences with a major in Electrical Engineering from Universidad de Chile, and PhD from Cardiff University, UK. Full Professor and Research Director at the Faculty of Engineering and Science of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. His research lines include machine learning, evolutionary computation, data mining, genetic regulatory network models and complex systems. For more information, visit: https://gonzaloruz.com

Reinel Tabares Soto is an Electronic Engineer from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, a Systems Engineer from Universidad de Caldas, Master of Industrial Automation from Universidad Nacional de Colombia and PhD of Engineering - Computer Science Line from Universidad Autónoma de Manizales. His academic work focuses on machine learning, data mining, high-performance computing, bioinformatics and modeling-simulation of dynamic systems. His master’s thesis was on parallel programming on heterogeneous architectures, and his doctoral thesis was about convolutional neural networks for a steganalysis of images in the spatial domain.

Since 2017, he has worked at the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOS) as leader of the scientific computing area, manager of the HPC cluster and researcher on topics related to his lines of work.

Starting in 2020, he served at the ICT and Competitiveness Secretariat of the City of Manizales and at the company People Contact as a digital transformation and artificial intelligence consultant.

He is a professor, researcher and coordinator of the electronic engineering program at Universidad Autónoma de Manizales since 2014, where he leads the projects entitled: Towards an Understanding of Plant Genomes of Productive Interest Using Bioinformatics, Artificial Intelligence and HPC Techniques, COVID-19 Detection Using X-Ray Images from Convolutional Neural Networks, and Convolutional Neural Networks for a Steganalysis of Images in the Spatial Domain.

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Journalist from P. Universidad Católica de Chile with a Diploma in Strategic Sustainability Management (PUCV, 2019) and another in Organizational Happiness (UAI, 2015), two key components for the integral management and understanding of organizational communications.

Computer Science Engineer, Diploma in Project Management, Data Scientist (IBM), Product Owner and Scrum Master. He is currently pursuing the Master’s in Engineering Sciences program at the University’s Faculty of Engineering and Sciences and developing his master’s thesis on the role of software engineering in the development of artificial intelligence and ethical software.

Since 2014, he has worked as a software engineer at various private companies, leading multidisciplinary teams that include teachers, developers, designers, students and business units. During this period, he has specialized in digital transformation, continuous improvement, strategic planning and management of technological projects.

His areas of interest are software design and development, complex systems, artificial intelligence, social sciences and philosophy.