Everybody has what's important

Coming @ WiML ICML

Leader @ WiML breakout session
Poster presentation -- check out the video!

Experience

2018 - Ph.D. Research Assistant - Lab for Social Machines - MIT.
2017 - 2018 CS Lecturer - Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC).
2016 - 2018 Data Scientist - Falabella.com.
2016 - 2017 Research Assistant - IACS, Harvard University.
2016 - 2017 M.Sc. Machine Learning - PUC.
2012 - 2017 B.S. Engineer and CS - PUC.

Conferences & Events

Leader @ WiML breakout session at ICML, 2020.
Poster presentation, July 2020 @ WiML at ICML.
Full paper accepted, July 2020 @ NUSE ACL, Seattle, USA (online)
Poster presentation, Dec 2019 @ WiML at NeurIPS, Vancouver, Canada
Short paper, Nov 2019 @ ACM CSCW, Austin, Texas, USA
Full paper presentation, Sept 2019 @ ACII, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Full paper oral presentation, May 2019 @ SIAM SDM, Calgary, Canada
Panelist, 2018 @ WIDS, Santiago, Chile
Speaker, 2017 Graduation Speech @ DCC UC, Santiago, Chile

News and service

Incoming Co-Chair @ WiML at NeurIPS, 2020
Reviewer for the ICML Deploy and Monitor ML workshop, 2020
Hall Council Chair, MIT Sidney Pacific Graduate Community, 2020
Reviewer for the 14th NeurIPS WiML workshop, 2019
Travel Grants 2019, MIT Media Lab (3 x $2,000) and WiML (1 x $550)
Teaching Assistant for machine learning class at EECS, MIT, Fall 2019

Miscellaneous

El Mercurio cover and innovation section, Chile, 2020
MIT Media Lab en español, La Razón, España, 2019
Emociones en Twitter, El País, España, 2019

Other invited lectures & presentations

Various research presentations, PUC Chile, 2019
Paper presentation, Affective Computing class, MIT, Spring 2019

AI Demos @ MIT Media Lab

Panasonic x 3, 2019

Publications

2020

4. Saldias, B., & Roy, D. (July, 2020) Exploring aspects of similarity between spoken personal narratives by disentangling them into narrative clause types. Proceedings of the 2020 ACL Workshop on Narrative Understanding, Storylines, and Events (NUSE). ACL.

paper, video, short video, slides, poster, repo, @medialab, BibTeX.

2019

3. Bhargava, R.*, Chung, A.*, Gaikwad, N.*, Hope, A.*, Jen, D.*, Rubinovitz, J.*, Saldias, B.*, & Zuckerman, E.* (2019, November). Gobo: A System for Exploring User Control of Invisible Algorithms in Social Media. Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW). ACM. *All authors contributed equally to this research.

paper, poster, @medialab, BibTeX.

2. Saldias, B., & Picard, R. (2019, September). Tweet Moodifier: Towards Giving Emotional Awareness to Twitter Users. Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII). IEEE.

paper, slides, poster, news, @medialab, BibTeX.

1. Saldias, B., Protopapas, P., & Pichara, K. (2019, May). A Full Probabilistic Model for Yes/No Type Crowdsourcing in Multi-Class Classification. Proceedings of the 2019 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM) (pp. 756-764). SIAM.

paper, slides, poster, repo, BibTeX.

Everybody has what's important

Publications

INSPIRE 2.0 @ Featured work in progress

Presentations & Talks