ABOUT US

An interdisciplinary team dedicated to preserving memory

NuestramemorIA brings together experts in computer science, history, sociology, and human rights. It combines technical rigor and historical sensitivity to put technology at the service of truth, memory, and justice.

THE TEAM

The People Behind the Project

Researchers from various disciplines, united by a common purpose.

Jocelyn Dunstan

Program Director · Computer Science · Natural Language Processing

Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and at the Institute of Mathematical and Computational Engineering at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. She is also a researcher at the IMFD, AC3E, and iHealth centers. Her work encompasses two main areas: the analysis, driven by artificial intelligence, of historical archives in the field of human rights and transitional justice; and clinical natural language processing in Spanish. In both areas, she leads transdisciplinary projects—which involve human participants and preserve privacy—situated at the intersection of academic research and public policy.

Hugo Rojas

Deputy Director · Human Rights and Transitional Justice

Ph.D. in Sociology (University of Oxford) and J.D. (University of Salamanca). His work lies at the intersection of human rights, transitional justice, archives, and state violence in Latin America. He is a faculty member at the Catholic University of Uruguay, Alberto Hurtado University, and the VioDemos Millennium Institute. He is a research associate at the Ibero-American Observatory on Criminal Justice at the University of Salamanca and editor of the Catholic University of Uruguay Law Review.

Domingo Mery

Principal Investigator · Computer Science · Computer Vision

Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences (Technical University of Berlin). Faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at the Catholic University of Chile and researcher at the Millennium Institute for Data Foundations. Expert in computer vision, image restoration, and facial recognition in low-quality images—key to analyzing documents and photographs from historical archives.

Pablo Seguel

Researcher · History · Archives and Human Rights

He holds a Ph.D. in History and a Master’s degree in History from the University of Santiago de Chile, and a degree in Sociology from the University of Chile. He specializes in contemporary history, memory, heritage, archives, and human rights. He served as Coordinator of the Memory and Human Rights Unit at the National Monuments Council (2015–2022). He has taught and conducted research at universities and institutions both in Chile and abroad. He is currently part of the NuestramemorIA project as a postdoctoral researcher at Alberto Hurtado University.

Felipe Mallea

Researcher · Sociology · Social Memory

Sociologist (Alberto Hurtado University) and Master’s degree in Social Research Methods (Diego Portales University). Researcher specializing in human rights, social memory, and representations of the recent past in Chile, with a focus on museums, sites, and archives from the period of the dictatorship.

Juan Reutter

Researcher · Computer Science · Databases and Graphs

Ph.D. in Computer Science (University of Edinburgh). Director of the Millennium Institute for Data Fundamentals and associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Catholic University of Chile. Specialist in data management, the Web, and graph databases.

Camilo Gutiérrez

Engineer · Computer Science

He holds a degree in Electrical Civil Engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He has specialized in machine learning and signal processing, creating artificial intelligence architectures for the analysis of complex unstructured data, and developing advanced information retrieval systems (RAG) and tools based on large language models (LLMs) for structuring large-scale databases.

Paula Mónica Silva

Communications · Communications and Production Manager

Journalist and holder of a bachelor’s degree in Social Communication from the University of Santiago de Chile. Specialist in organizational, scientific, and data science communication. Her work focuses on the management, strategic planning, and dissemination of institutional content, integrating innovation, science, education, and the social appropriation of knowledge across disciplines.

STUDENTS

A New Generation of Researchers

Isabella Cherubini

Student · Computer Engineering

A civil engineering student specializing in computer engineering, with a major in computer science and a minor in the scientific and technological foundations of computing at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

Guillermo Peralta

Ph.D. Researcher · AI Applied to Historical Archives

Ph.D. researcher in AI applied to historical archives at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He develops multimodal systems to reconstruct and preserve documents related to human rights, integrating text, images, audio, and video into knowledge graphs. His work combines data science, deep learning, and the digital humanities, with a strong ethical focus on the handling of sensitive data.

Daniel Sebastián

Student · Master's in Artificial Intelligence

Master's student in Engineering Sciences, specializing in Artificial Intelligence, at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

GRADUATES

Trained in the project

Cristóbal Vásquez

Deep Learning Applications for OCR. Master of Science in Engineering from the Catholic University of Chile.

Darwin Sanhueza

Master of Science in Engineering from the Catholic University of Chile.

CONTRIBUTORS

They worked with NuestramemorIA

Antonia Fonck

PhD candidate in History at the Pontifical Catholic University and author of the book *Declassified Perspectives: Salvador Allende’s Chile in U.S. Documents (1969–1973)*, published by Editorial UAH. LinkedIn

COLLABORATION

We don't work alone

NuestramemorIA collaborates with archives, museums, and human rights organizations. Learn about the institutions we work with.

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