José Miguel Herrera's Webpage

Master in Computer Science at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile.

Computer Engineering at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile.

Actual Activities

Head of AI Team at Pangeanic. (nov 2023 - ).
Voice team lead at Pangeanic. (feb 2023-nov 2023)
Applied Data scientist at Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data. (2019-2022)
Research Engineer and Software Engineer in a FONDEF project (with government funds): “Car Robbery Observatory”. (2018)
Project Engineer of MS in Information Technology program at UTFSM. (2009-2013)
IT Analyst in Metlife S.A. company. (2008-2009)
System Administrator at Department of Informatics at UTFSM. (2002-2006).

Associated professor at Universidad de las Artes y Comunicaciones (UNIACC). (2008-present).
- Online teaching in the courses (names in spanish): Programación Algorítmica, Programación Avanzada, Introducción a la programación, Modelación de Entornos Virtuales (Master in Education), Lenguajes de Programación, Administración de Proyectos Informáticos.
Professor at Universidad de Chile.
- Course Data Science Project Management. (2020-2021).
Assistant of Introduction to Data Mining course at Department of CS of the Universidad de Chile. (2017-2018).
Professor of Computer Programming and Introduction to Engineer courses at UTFSM. (2005-2007, 2011-2013).
- - Using active learning techniques.
Teacher of Courses oriented to professionals: System administration in Linux, Advanced Linux , Basic Linux. (2002-2006)

Jose Herrera, Moises Barrios. Generation of a Large Speech Corpus for the Languages of Spain using Data Augmentation. European Language Equality (ELE). 2023.
Jose Herrera, Denis Parra, Barbara Poblete. Social QA in non-CQA platforms. Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems, 105, 631-649. 2019. [WoS, SCOPUS]
Jose Herrera, Aidan Hogan, Tobias Käfer. BTC-2019: The 2019 Billion Triple Challenge Dataset. In Proceedings of ISWC, 2019. Auckland, New Zealand. [SCOPUS]
Jose Herrera, Denis Parra, Barbara Poblete. Leveraging Microblog Documents for QA Retrieval. In Proceedings of ECIR, 2018. Grenoble, France. [WoS, SCOPUS]
Jose Herrera, Denis Parra, Barbara Poblete. Retrieving Relevant Conversations for Q&A on Twitter. In Proceedings of Workshop on SPS (SIGIR), 2015. Santiago, Chile. [SCOPUS]
Jose Herrera, Barbara Poblete . Ranking by Interest in Twitter Question and Answer Threads. Presented at AMW 2015 conference. Lima, Peru.
Jose Herrera. Case Study: Finding Question Topics Over Time On Twitter. Presented at AMW 2014 conference. Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.

PC member/reviewer of The Web Conference (WWW 2021).
Reviewer of 2nd International Conference on Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems (MLIS 2020).
Proceeding Chair of AMW 2018 conference.
Reviewer of SIGIR 2018 conference.
Subreviewer of ECIR 2015 conference.
Member of the organizing team of Congreso Iberoamericano de Seguridad Informática (CIBSI). Viña del Mar, Chile. 2005.
Member of the organizing team of the Iberoamerican Congress of Pattern Recognition. (CIARP). Viña del Mar, Chile. 2007.

Main advisor: Dr. Barbara Poblete (http://dcc.uchile.cl).

Co-advisor: Dr. Denis Parra (https://www.ing.uc.cl/).

Comission members: Mounia Lalmas (Spotify), Aidan Hogan (University of Chile), Marcelo Mendoza (UTFSM).

"Improvement of the time slot usage in Ad Hoc networks, using aggregation techniques and packages expiration in the MMAC protocol"

(Spanish name: "Mejora de Uso del Time Slot en Redes Ad Hoc Mediante Técnicas de Agregación y Vencimiento de Paquetes en el Protocolo MMAC")

Main advisor: Dr. Xavier Bonnaire (CS professor at UTFSM) and Dr. José Miguel Piquer (CS professor at Universidad de Chile).

Jose Herrera. Innovación en asignatura de Programación de Computadores. XXV Congreso Chileno de Educación en Ingeniería. Antofagasta, Chile, October. 2012.
Jose Herrera, Cecilia Reyes. Renovación de asignatura de Programación de Computadores. Publicación en cuadernos foro de Valparaíso XIII, April 2013.