Karim Pichara Baksai

I'm currently an Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department from Universidad Católica de Chile and Research Assistant at the Institute of Applied Computational Science (IACS) from Harvard University. I'm also a researcher in the Millenium institute of Astrophysics (MAS). I received a Ph. D. degree in Computer Science from Universidad Católica in Chile, 2010. During 2011-2012, I did a Postdoc in Machine Learning for Astronomy, at Harvard University. My main research areas are Data Science and Machine Learning for Astronomy, focusing in the development of several new tools for automatic classification of variable stars, detection of quasars, discovery of known objects, dealing with missing data, and meta classification, among others.

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Introducción a la Minería de Datos (Coursera)

En este curso, aprenderás de manera gradual y práctica los conceptos básicos de Minería de Datos, junto a los algoritmos más utilizados hoy en día. Al finalizar el curso, serás capaz de entender la importancia de manejar la información y de explorar por ti mismo distintas bases de datos [...]