faculty of engineering, udec

Three coursesone bias

Advanced computational methods pointed at concrete engineering, industrial and public-sector problems — never at clean textbook data.

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Spring 2025, Spring 2026
Assistant Professor

Generative Artificial Intelligence

Foundations and applications of generative models: architectures, prompting and evaluation, fine-tuning, retrieval, and what it actually takes to put a model in front of real users without it falling over.

transformersfine-tuningretrievalevaluationdeployment
02
Fall 2024, 2025, 2026
Assistant Professor

Data Visualization

Theory and practice of visual communication: encodings that survive scrutiny, interaction that earns its complexity, and the discipline of building the one chart that has to change a decision.

visual encodingperceptioninteractionD3dashboards
03
Fall 2025, Fall 2026
Assistant Professor

Multivariate Statistical Analysis

Linear and logistic regression, principal component analysis and clustering, applied end to end on real industrial-engineering data.

regressionlogistic modelsPCAclusteringinference
open

Thesis andresearch students

I supervise theses at the Faculty of Engineering on generative AI and what it is doing to work, education and public argument. Write to me with what interests you, or ask what is open.

cnavarretel@udec.cl →