Data Science and Artificial Intelligence: the new horizons of the UCM

Through cutting-edge master’s degrees, Universidad Católica del Maule prepares professionals to lead the latest trends in business and technology.

Data Science, as a field that deals with the growing information generated by human activities and digital interactions, has become one of the fundamental pillars of progress. The intelligent use of data, which revolutionized traditional models in public and private organizations, raised the interest in experts in this area.

“These are professionals with innovative potential, who have the skills to contribute to development under this new horizon and propose comprehensive solutions to increasingly complex problems,” said the Postgraduate Director of the Universidad Católica del Maule (UCM), Marcelo Castillo, whose institution opened this year a Master’s Degree in Data Science.

“It is one of our programs in line with the change of paradigm and the projections of the most required profiles,” he said.

Aimed at professionals linked to the statistical, biostatistical, economic and administrative sciences, as well as computing and engineering, the master’s degree offers training of excellence in data processing and analysis.

“The university’s commitment is to be a leader between Santiago and Concepción, with an innovation center related to data analysis (…). The ability to anticipate needs and optimize processes through the use of data has transformed entire industries, driving innovation in sectors such as technology, finance, retail and, of course, health and the environment,” said the program director and PhD in Statistics, Marcelo Rodriguez.

Another postgraduate program that addresses evolutionary transformations at UCM, with everyday applications, is the Master’s in Computer Science. “We treat the topic of Artificial Intelligence very strongly within the program and in the theses, in the line of pattern recognition, not only using it as a tool, but also making proposals for new techniques in AI, optimizing the existing neural network,” said the director of the master’s degree, Ricardo Barrientos.

ThePhD in Computer Engineering pointed out that although the program corresponds to the academic type, “the professors involve their students as thesis students in projects that have a link with industry and government institutions, such as the biometrics project we are working on with the Gendarmerie, for the implementation of a device capable of identifying a person through the geometry of the veins in the palm of the hand”.

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