The Journées Scientifiques Inria Chile 2024: A bridge to the AI Action Summit!



This year, our conferences become an official pre-event of the AI Action Summit, consolidating Chile as a key player in the global discussion on artificial intelligence.

From December 4 to 6, at the Gabriela Mistral Cultural Center, we invite you to immerse yourself in three days of conferences, panel discussions and networking, where leading French and Chilean scientists will address the challenges and opportunities of AI today.

The event will be in english.

The Journées Scientifiques marks a key in our path towards an AI-driven future and consolidates itself as a unique meeting space of the French-Chilean artificial intelligence ecosystem. It is an honor and a responsibility to be the only official pre-event in Chile and we intend it to be a strategic platform to prepare the ground for the AI Action Summit in February in Paris. I invite you all to be part of this adventure.

Nayat Sánchez-Pi


VISIT INRIA CHILE

-> SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

INRIA


  • Nayat Sánchez-Pi, CEO of Inria Chile
  • Luis Martí, Scientific Director of Inria Chile

Universidad de Chile


  • Pablo Estevez, Full Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Chile; Millennium Institute of Astrophysics (MAS); Millennium Institute for Intelligent Healthcare Engineering (iHealth)
  • Jaime San Martín, Full Professor, Department of Mathematical Engineering, Universidad de Chile; Center for Mathematical Modeling (CMM); National Laboratory for High Performance Computing (NLHPC)
  • Éric Tanter, Full Professor, Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile; Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD)

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile


  • Pablo Barceló, Full Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Institute of Mathematical and Computational Engineering UC; Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD); National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA)
  • Claudia Prieto, Director of Research and Innovation and Full Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Institute of Mathematical and Computational Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Director, Millennium Institute for Intelligent Healthcare Engineering (iHEALTH)
  • Álvaro Soto, Associate Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA)

Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María


  • María José Escobar, Associate Professor, Department of Electronics, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
  • Raquel Pezoa, Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María; Associate Researcher, Scientific and Technological Center of Valparaíso (CCTVal)

Universidad de Valparaíso


  • Adrián Palacios, Full Professor, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Valparaíso; Institute of Complex Systems of Valparaíso (ISCV), Interdisciplinary Center for Neuroscience of Valparaíso (CINV)
  • Rolando Rebolledo, Full Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Universidad de Valparaíso; Center for Research and Modeling of Random Phenomena - Valparaíso (CIMFAV), Institute of Mathematical Engineering

Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez


  • Romina Torres, Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Sciences, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez; National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA)

Universidad Andrés Bello


  • Carla Taramasco, Full Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Andrés Bello; Institute of Technology for Innovation in Health and Wellness (ITiSB)

Universidad de O'Higgins


  • Stefan Escaida, Assistant Professor, Institute of Engineering Sciences, Universidad de O’Higgins

Universidad San Sebastián


  • Carlos Hernández, Full Professor, Universidad San Sebastián; Center for Science and Life (CCV), National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA)

-> PROGRAM

Download the full program in the following link.

The Journées Scientifiques 2024 will be held at Room A1, building A, Gabriela Mistral Cultural Center, Av. Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins 227, Santiago.

🕑 Santiago de Chile time.

Wednesday, Dec 4th

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Registration

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Opening of the Journées Scientifiques Inria Chile 2024

  • CEO Inria Chile, Nayat Sánchez-Pi
  • Ambassador of France to Chile, Cyrille Rogeau
  • Minister of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation of Chile, Aisén Etcheverry
  • Chairman and CEO of Inria, Bruno Sportisse

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Opening Keynote

09:30 Karteek ALAHARI (Inria); AI @ Inria

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Coffee break

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Session 1.1: Generative AI and Foundation Models

11:00 Cristobal Guzmán (UC); Differentially Private Optimization with Sparse Gradients
11:25 Aidan HOGAN (DCC, UChile, IMFD); Large Language Models, Knowledge Graphs & Search Engines: A Crossroads for Answering (Critical) Questions
11:50 Valentin BARRIERE (DCC, UChile/CENIA); Tackling Biases In or Using Generative IA
12:15 Hernán LIRA (Inria Chile); HUEMUL: Human+AI Ensembled MT for Underrepresented Languages

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Lunch

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Session 1.2: Breakthroughs in AI

14:00 Cristián BUC (CENIA); How can neuroscience promote breakthroughs in AI?
15:00 Matías ZANARTU (USM, AC3E); Probabilistic Bayesian Neural Network for Predicting Model-Based Features from Neck Surface Acceleration Signals with Uncertainty Estimation
15:25 Elizabeth MONTERO (USM): Automatic design of metaheuristic algorithms with learning

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Coffee break

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16:20 Nicolas TABAREAU (Inria); Mathematics Assisted by Artificial Intelligence
16:45 Romina TORRES (UAI,CENIA); Predicting APTs Next Step in Environments Where AI is Also Vulnerable

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Round table "The AI <-> HPC infra landscape"

  • Felipe Bravo, IDIA-UChile, IMDF, CENIA
  • Ginés Guerrero, NLHPC
  • Roberto Musso, Digevo
  • Thierry de Saint Pierre, ACTI
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Closing Day 1

Thursday, Dec 5th

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Registration

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Session 2.1: AI and Public Interest

09:00 Fabien LE VOYER (Inria); AI for public interest: the AI program of the Inria Digital Agency in the framework of the French national strategy on AI
10:00 Rodrigo DURÁN (CENIA); AI perspectives for Latin America and Caribbean

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Coffee break

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11:15 Juana TORRES-CIERPE (Inria); LaborIA: Public Laboratory on the Impact of AI on the World of Work
11:40 Pedro MALDONADO (UChile/CENIA); Ethical challenges in AI and Neurotechnology
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Lunch

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Session 2.2: AI Applications

13:20 Luce BROTCORNE (Inria); Bilevel optimization. Applications in energy and transportation
14:20 Javier RUIZ DEL SOLAR (UChile/AMTC); Deep Reinforcement Learning for Mobile Robotics and Mining
14:45 Yinoussa ADAGOLODJO (Univ. Lille, Inria, CNRS, Centrale Lille); Bridging the Gap: From Biomechanical Simulations to Adaptive Surgical Robotics

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Coffee break

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15:40 Sebastián GALLARDO (Inria); A Clustering Based Article Template Recommendation System for Newspaper Editors
16:05 Sofía CALLEJAS (Inria Chile); Capturing the Essence of Plankton: A Long-Tailed problem

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Round table "The Challenges and Impacts of AI"

  • Sebastián Amaral, Idemax
  • Isidora Cabezón, CRT+IC
  • Rodrigo Durán, CENIA
  • Fabien Le Voyer, Inria
  • Julián Herman, BCG/ICARE
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Inria DRI: Inria's Franco-Chilean cooperation programs

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Closing Day 2

Friday, Dec 6th

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Registration

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Session 3.1: AI for Science

09:00 Paula JOFRÉ (UDP); Galactic Phylogenetics
10:00 Itziar DE GREGORIO-MONSALVO (ESO); The European Southern Observatory : Revolutionising Astronomy with the biggest telescopes of Earth

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Coffee break

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10:55 José GALAZ MORA (CIGIDEN/UC); Analysis of coupling methods of coastal wave models
11:20 Maria RODRÍGUEZ-FERNANDEZ (UC); Personalized Prediction of Physiological and Cognitive Responses to High Geographic Altitude Exposure
11:45 Francisco SAHLI COSTABAL (UC); Physics-informed neural networks for patient-specific predictions in the cardiovascular system

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Lunch

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Session 3.2: AI and Modeling: Model- and data-driven approaches

13:20 Leopoldo BERTOSSI (USS, Carleton, IMFD); Explainable AI for Classification and Decision Systems
14:20 Andrés SEPULVEDA (UdeC); Of fish and men: current developments in numerical modeling of Chilean Patagonian waters
14:45 Paul ESCAPIL-INCHAUSPÉ (Inria Chile); Data-centric Engineering and Scientific Machine Learning: Challenges and Opportunities

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Coffee break

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15:40 Pablo Marquet (UC); Some Earth System challenges and opportunities for AI
16:05 Adrián PALACIOS (UV); The Retina in the Era of Big data

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Round table "Science in the era of AI"

  • Karteek Alahari, Inria
  • Paula Jofré, UDP
  • Pablo Marquet, PUC
  • Adrián Palacios, UV
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Closing Celeremony of JSIC 2024

-> PRACTICAL INFORMATION

The Journées Scientifiques Inria Chile 2024 will take place on December 4, 5, and 6.

Where will the Journées Scientifiques Inria Chile 2024 be held?

The Journées Scientifiques Inria Chile 2024 will take place in Room A1 of Building A, Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral (GAM), Av. Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins 227, Santiago, Chile.

How to get there?

  • Public Transportation
    • Metro - Line 1: Universidad Católica station, exit A - Av. Alameda Libertador Bernardo O’Higgins Norte. This station is located next to the Cultural Center.
    • A dozen public bus lines stop at the GAM.

  • By bicycle
    • GAM has a free bike parking area, on GAM main square. Please note that the bike parking area fills up very quickly and there is no alternative solution.

  • By car
    • Paid underground parking on Villavicencio Street 354. Click here to open Google Maps and follow the directions to get there. The first hour of parking is free when you show your accreditation for Journées Scientifiques Inria Chile 2024.

Where to eat?

Participants of the Journées Scientifiques 2024 will have the option to have lunch at the event venue by presenting their credentials, which will be provided upon their first arrival at the event.

In case of any questions, please contact the Organizing Committee: organisation.jsichile@inria.cl

-> REGISTER FOR THE JOURNÉES SCIENTIFIQUES INRIA CHILE 2024!


You can register to attend the in-person Journées Scientifiques for all three days or choose the specific days you'd like to participate in.

-> FORMER EDITIONS

Relive the Journées Scientifiques Inria Chile past editions here!

->VIDEOS

Wednesday, December 4th

Part 1

  • Opening of the Journées Scientifiques Inria Chile 2024
    • Nayat Sánchez-Pi, CEO Inria Chile; Cyrille Rogeau, Ambassador of France to Chile; Aisén Etcheverry, Minister of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation of Chile; Bruno Sportisse, Presidente y Director de Inria.
  • Opening Keynote
    • Karteek Alahari, Inria
  • Session 1.1: Generative AI and Foundation Models
    • Presentations: Cristobal Guzmán, UC; Aidan HOGAN, DCC/UChile/IMFD; Valentin BARRIERE, DCC/UChile/CENIA; Hernán LIRA, Inria Chile).

Part 2

  • Session 1.2: Breakthroughs in AI
    • Presentations: Cristián BUC, CENIA; Matías ZANARTU, USM/AC3E; Elizabeth MONTERO, USM; Nicolas TABAREAU, Inria; Romina TORRES, UAI/CENIA.
  • Round table 'The AI <-> HPC infra landscape'
    • Felipe Bravo, IDIA-UChile/IMDF/CENIA; Ginés Guerrero, NLHPC; Roberto Musso, Digevo; Thierry de Saint Pierre, ACTI.
Thursday, December 5th

Part 1

  • Session 2.1: AI and Public Interest
    • Presentations: Fabien LE VOYER, Inria; Rodrigo DURÁN, CENIA; Juana TORRES-CIERPE, Inria; Pedro MALDONADO, UChile/CENIA.

Part 2

  • Session 2.2: AI Applications
    • Presentations: Luce BROTCORNE, Inria; Javier RUIZ DEL SOLAR, UChile/AMTC; Yinoussa ADAGOLODJO, Univ. Lille/Inria/CNRS/Centrale Lille; Sebastián GALLARDO, Inria; Sofía CALLEJAS, Inria Chile.
  • Round table 'The Challenges and Impacts of AI'
    • Sebastián Amaral, Idemax; Isidora Cabezón, CRT+IC; Rodrigo Durán, CENIA; Fabien Le Voyer, Inria; Julián Herman, BCG/ICARE.
Friday, December 6th

Part 1

  • Session 3.1: AI for Science
    • Presentations: Paula JOFRÉ, UDP; Itziar DE GREGORIO-MONSALVO, ESO; José GALAZ MORA, CIGIDEN/UC; Maria RODRÍGUEZ-FERNANDEZ, UC; Francisco SAHLI COSTABAL, UC.

Part 2

  • Session 3.2: AI and Modeling: Model- and data-driven approaches
    • Presentations: Leopoldo BERTOSSI, USS/Carleton/IMFD; Andrés SEPULVEDA, UdeC; Paul ESCAPIL-INCHAUSPÉ, Inria Chile; Pablo Marquet, UC; Adrián PALACIOS, UV.
  • Round table 'Science in the era of AI'
    • Karteek Alahari, Inria; Paula Jofré, UDP; Pablo Marquet, PUC; Adrián Palacios, UV.