Bio & Resume
Bio
Daniel Gacitúa is a Computer Engineer and PhD in Informatics from Santiago, Chile. Currently dedicated to research, understand, and apply Generative Artificial Intelligence. Developing generative AI solutions to democratize access to knowledge.
Research Topics
- Interactive Information Retrieval
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Data Science
- Applied Artificial Intelligence
Academic Accounts
Resume
Formal Education
- 2018 - 2023: Doctor in Engineering Sciences with specialization in Informatics - Universidad de Santiago de Chile
- 2018 - 2020: MSc in Engineering Sciences with specialization in Informatics - Universidad de Santiago de Chile
- 2011 - 2016: BASc in Computer Engineering - Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Other Education
- Jul 2015 - Jun 2016: International Exchange Student (Computer Engineering) - Universidad de Buenos Aires
Published Papers & Posters
My updated published papers list can be seen at my Google Scholar profile page.
- Chourio-Acevedo, L., Köhler, J., Coscarelli, C., Gacitúa, D., Proaño-Ríos, V., & González-Ibáñez, R. (2024). Information literacy development and assessment at school level: a systematic review of the literature. arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.19020.
- Gacitúa, D., & González-Ibáñez, R. (2023). LETICIA: A toolbox for search task deployment, execution, and user interaction logging on interactive information retrieval studies. SoftwareX, 23, 101493.
- Gacitúa, D., & González‐Ibáñez, R. (2022). Predicting Search Task Difficulty through a Discrete‐Time Action Log Representation on Spectrum Kernel. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 59(1), 690-692.
- González-Ibáñez, R., Chourio-Acevedo, L., Gacitúa, D., Márquez, C., Mellado, J., Villarreal, F., ... & Silva, J. (2021). Let’s Play: Toward an Effective Approach to Assess Online Inquiry Competences at School Level. In 2021 40th International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC) (pp. 1-8). IEEE.
- González-Ibáñez, R., Gacitúa, D., Martínez-Ramírez, G., Köhler, J., Sormunen, E., Kiili, C., ... & Leppänen, P. H. (2020). Assessing the impact of an online inquiry teaching intervention on sixth graders’ search performance. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
- González-Ibáñez, R., Márquez, C., & Gacitúa, D. (2019). StArE. js: An extensible open source toolkit for visualizing search engine results. In 2019 38th International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC) (pp. 1-7). IEEE.
- González‐Ibáñez, R., Gacitúa, D., Sormunen, E., & Kiili, C. (2017). Neurone: online inquiry experimentation system. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 54(1), 687-689.
Scholarships and Grants
- 2019 - 2023: Scholarship Program Doctorado Nacional (grant no. 2019-21192162) - National Agency for Research and Development (ANID)
Employment
- Aug 2024 - May 2025: DevOps/AI Engineer - Kibernum
- Jul 2023 - Apr 2024: Postdoctoral Researcher - LABEN Chile
- Mar 2023 - Dec 2023: Part-time Lecturer (Minor in Data Science) - Universidad de Santiago de Chile
- Aug 2022 - Jan 2023: Part-time Lecturer (Programming Fundamentals for Engineering) - Facultad de Ingeniería - Universidad de Santiago de Chile
- Mar 2018 - Jul 2022: Part-time Lecturer (Programming Paradigms) - Departamento de Ingeniería Informática – Universidad de Santiago de Chile