About me

Carlos Navarrete is a Chilean engineer, Ph.D. in computer science, with over eight years of experience developing data-driven platforms worldwide and conducting interdisciplinary research. Carlos serves as an Assistant Professor at the School of Engineering at the Universidad de Concepción, and he is affiliated with the Millennium Nucleus for the Study of Politics, Public Opinion and Media, Chile.

Carlos is one of the leading experts on Data Science and Generative Artificial Intelligence in Chile. He has extensive experience in both leading and collaborating on some of the country's most widely used data-driven platforms, including Elecciones en La Tercera (https://data.latercera.com), DataChile (https://datachile.io), the AI World (https://aiworld.eu), and StreamData (https://streamdata.cl).

Prior joining to Concepción, he was a Doctoral Visiting Student at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University, and at the Centro de Datos e Inteligencia Artificial (CDIA) at the Universidad de Concepción. Carlos completed his doctoral degree at the Université de Toulouse and his undergraduate studies at the Universidad de Concepción.

His main research sets at the intersection of computer and social science, aiming to unravel the dynamics of society behaviour and polarization. Part of his work has appeared in top journals like Nature Human Behaviour and Research Policy, among others.

Education

• B.Sc., Universidad de Concepción (2014)
• Eng., Universidad de Concepción (2016)
• Doctorate., Université de Toulouse (2023)

Publications

The full list of publications can be found in Google Scholar.