Denis Parra

dparra[at]ing[dot]puc[dot]cl

Departamento Ciencia de la Computación
Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul
Santiago, Chile
zip code 7820436

Curso RecSys 2019 (PUC)
Curso InfoVis 2019 (PUC)
SocVis Lab
Publications (via )
Google Scholar Page
Software: pyReclab
Talks' Slides (via Slideshare)
Twitter Page
Resume(CV)
Old Web Site

Hi! I am Denis, Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, in the School of Engineering at PUC Chile. I am also adjunct researcher at the Millennium Institute for Research on Fundamentals of Data. My research interests are Recommender Systems, Intelligent User Interfaces, and Information Visualization and I am currently leading the SocVis Research Lab.
If you are interested on these topics and want to work under my supervision as Master or PhD student, send me an e-mail to dparra[at]ing[dot]puc[dot]cl.

Selected Projects

TalkExplorer, recommendation with multiple prospects of relevance SetFusion, hybrid recommendation of conference articles Moodplay, recommendation of music artists
TalkExplorer [conf][journal][demo] SetFusion [conf][journal][video] [slides] [demo] Moodplay [conf] [video][demo]
A Survey on Interactive Recommender Systems
*for pre-prints of these articles, check my publications page

News

August 2024 Attended and presented papers at ICML and ACL conferences, my first articles on A* conferences.

August 2019 I have been officially promoted to Associate Professor at PUC Chile!

March 2019 I am attending the 24th ACM IUI conference in Los Angeles, CA, USA. We are presenting the paper "The Effect of Explanations and Algorithmic Accuracy on Visual Recommender Systems of Artistic Images," where we conduct a user study in order to measure and synthesize the impact of several aspects (algorithm, type of explanation, user expertise) upon different dimensions of the UX with an art recommender systems (perception of relevance, trust, understandability, etc.) [paper]

January 2019 Three of my master students successfully defended their theses: Mar\'ia Fernanda Sep\'ulveda, Vicente Dominguez and Pablo Messina. Kudos for them! Another student, Jorge Schellman, is defending in 2 days, hopefully he does well too.

October 2018 I attended the ACM RecSys 2018 conference in Vancouver, Canada. We presented 2 papers in co-located workshops, one at RecSysKTL by del Río et al. "Do Better ImageNet Models Transfer Better … for Image Recommendation?"[paper][slides], and another one at the IntRS workshop by Dominguez et al. "Towards Explanations for Visual Recommender Systems of Artistic Images" [paper]

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Latest Publications

An Interactive Relevance Feedback Interface for Evidence-Based Health Care. Donoso-Guzman, I.; and Parra, D. In Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Intelligent User interfaces, 2018. [paper pdf]

Learning to Leverage Microblog Information for QA Retrieval. Herrera, J.; Poblete, B.; and Parra, D. In Proceedings of the European Conference in Information Retrieval, 2018. [paper pdf]

CNVis: A Web-Based Visual Analytics Tool for Exploring Conference Navigator Data. Bailey, S. M.; Wei, J. A.; Wang, C.; Parra, D.; and Brusilovsky, P. In IS&T Electronic Imaging 2018 Symposium , 2018. [paper pdf]

Students

PhD

  • Manuela Garretón
  • Andrés Carvallo

  • MSc

  • Jorge Schellman
  • Pablo Messina
  • Vicente Domínguez
  • María Fernanda Sepúlveda
  • Lukas Svicarovic
  • Manuel Cartagena (co-advised with Prof. Hans Lobel)
  • Antonio Ossa (co-advised with Prof. Hans Lobel)

  • Alumni

  • Ivania Donoso, Eng. MSc (now at Conversica)
  • Maribel Alvarado, MPGI MSc (now at Bibliotecas UC)

  • Teaching

    Graduate

    Undergraduate

    Academic Service

    Workshop Organization

    Journal Reviews

    Conference Reviews