Bio & Resume
Bio
Hi! My name is Daniel Gacitua, I'm a Computer Engineer (and now a Doctoral Student) 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 - present: Doctor in Engineering Sciences with specialization in Informatics - Universidad de Santiago de Chile
- 2020: MSc in Engineering Sciences with specialization in Informatics - Universidad de Santiago de Chile
- 2016: BASc in Computer Engineering - Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Other Education
- July 2015 - June 2016: International Exchange Student (Computer Engineering) - Universidad de Buenos Aires
Published Papers & Posters
- 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
- 2023: Part-time Lecturer (Minor in Data Science) - Universidad de Santiago de Chile
- 2022: Part-time Lecturer (Programming Fundamentals for Engineering) - Facultad de Ingeniería - Universidad de Santiago de Chile
- 2018 - 2022: Part-time Lecturer (Programming Paradigms) - Departamento de Ingeniería Informática – Universidad de Santiago de Chile