Source: https://ingenieria.uv.cl/diez-expositores-internacionales-y-mas-de-cien-trabajos-en-ix-conferencia-latinoamericana-de-estadistica-computacional/

IX Latin American Conference on Statistical Computing LACSC 2025
November 4th to Friday 7th, 2025. Valparaíso, Chile.
https://www.lacsc2025.cl/

 

For three days, the scientific community is gathering at the Universidad de Valparaíso (UV) for the IX Latin American Conference on Computational Statistics, organized by the Faculties of Engineering and Science, the Engineering 2030 and Science 2030 projects, the Schools of Biomedical Civil Engineering and Computer Engineering, as well as the Institutes of Statistics and Meteorology.

The event, which brings together ten speakers from Taiwan, Hong Kong, France, the United States, Brazil, and Chile, received over one hundred research papers. Conferences and presentations will be held in the Auditorium of the UV Faculty of Engineering and at the Centro Integral de Atención al Estudiante (CIAE).

Rodrigo Salas, an academic from Biomedical Civil Engineering and one of the event organizers, explained that it is “an international conference with a Latin American focus, bringing together scientists with a perspective on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Science, to analyze how Computational Statistics can contribute algorithms and methods to solve problems and improve applications in health and the environment.”

The conference is being held in a hybrid format, an aspect highlighted by the academic: “We have one hundred and forty registered participants and we have the collaboration of the Interdisciplinary Center for Biomedical Research and Engineering for Health (MEDING); the Doctorate in Science and Engineering for Health, the recently created Doctorate in Engineering, Science2030, Engineering2030, the Anillo DEMIV-OH, and the Millennium Institute IHealth. These are packed days where we have the opportunity to appreciate the discussion on the contribution of computational statistics and its applications.”

**High Academic Level**

Esteban Sefair, Dean of Engineering, explained that “we have students, participants, and colleagues from various parts of the world, and I am pleased to see our university community participating in this high-level academic meeting, which promotes interdisciplinary dialogue and the advancement of knowledge in computational statistics, data science, and Artificial Intelligence, in a challenge we face every day.”

In this sense, the Dean thanked “the organizing and scientific committees for ensuring the quality and rigor of the papers. Joining efforts in this way is essential for strengthening quality research, in a global context marked by digital transformation and the exponential growth of data availability.”

“Computational statistics is positioning itself as a key tool for making informed decisions, through technological development and solving complex problems in different areas of knowledge. Initiatives like this allow for sharing scientific advances and building new collaborative networks that transcend borders and disciplines,” he added.