Bio & Resume

Bio

Hi! My name is Daniel Gacitúa, I'm a Computer Engineer and PhD in Informatics from Santiago, Chile. My main research topics are Information Retrieval, Human-Computer Interaction, and Data Science. Besides research and computers, I'm also passionate for photography and videogames.

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

• 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

• 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