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Experience

  • 2018 - present  Ph.D. Candidate and RA - Lab for Social Machines - MIT.
  • 2017 - 2018 CS Adjunct Professor - P. 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

  • Extended abstract (paper), Nov 2020 @ CODI 2020, EMNLP.
  • Panelist, Mitigating Bias in Analytics, August 2020 @ WIA and Tableau.
  • Full paper accepted (video), July 2020 @ NUSE ACL.
  • Leader WiML breakout session, July 2020 @ ICML.
  • Poster and video  presentation, July 2020 @ WiML at ICML.
  • Poster presentation, Dec 2019 @ WiML at NeurIPS, Vancouver, Canada
  • 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

  • Logistics Co-Chair @ WiML at NeurIPS, 2020
  • Grad TA for Understanding Public Thought, MIT & UW-Madison, Fall 2020
  • Super-volunteer @ WiML at ICML, 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)
  • Grad TA for machine learning class at EECS, MIT, Fall 2019


Miscellaneous

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


Other invited lectures & presentations

  • Speaker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Week @ U. de La Sabana, Colombia, October 2020
  • Presenting INSPIRE @ Social Computing & Visualization Group, PUC, October 2020
  • Research @ PUC CS/DCC, PhD Seminar, October 2020
  • Speaker, Data Science in Industry @ University of Concepción, Chile, August 2020
  • Various research presentations @ PUC Chile, 2019
  • Paper presentation @ Affective Computing class by Prof. Roz Picard, MIT, Spring 2019


AI Demos @ MIT Media Lab

  • Panasonic Corporation x 3, 2019

Research statement

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Publications

Google Scholar, ORCID ID


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.

Work also presented at WiML @ NeurIPS19, WiML @ ICML20, CODI @ EMNLP20.

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



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, citation.


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, citation.


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, citation.

Some of my work's Presentations & Talks

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