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Felipe Bravo-Marquez

Felipe Bravo-Marquez is a computer scientist whose research applies machine learning to sentiment and emotion analysis in language. At Universidad de Chile, he earned computer engineering and industrial engineering degrees and a computer science master's, worked as a research engineer at Yahoo! Labs, and completed a Waikato PhD on Twitter sentiment analysis. He coauthored WASSA-2017's emotion-intensity task and AffectiveTweets, a Weka package for emotion and sentiment analysis, and received the 2022 TWAS-LACREP Young Scientists Award. He is an associate professor at Universidad de Chile and, since 2024, directs its Data and Artificial Intelligence Initiative.

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Timeline

  1. 2010–2013

    Engineering degrees in Chile

    He earns a degree in computer engineering and a degree in industrial engineering at Universidad de Chile in 2010, then a master's degree in computer science there in 2013.

  2. 2011–2013

    Research engineer at Yahoo! Labs

    From 2011 to 2013, he works as a research engineer at Yahoo! Labs Latin America.

  3. 2017

    A PhD on Twitter sentiment

    In July 2017, he completes a PhD in computer science at the University of Waikato.

  4. 2017

    Emotion intensity at WASSA

    In 2017, he coauthors WASSA-2017 with Saif Mohammad, a shared task that assesses emotion intensity in tweets. The task creates labeled tweet datasets for anger, fear, joy, and sadness.

  5. 2017–2019

    Research fellow at Waikato

    From 2017 to 2019, he works as a Research Fellow in the Machine Learning Group at the University of Waikato.

  6. 2019

    AffectiveTweets for Weka

    In 2019, he coauthors AffectiveTweets, a package for the Weka machine-learning workbench that analyzes emotion and sentiment in social media posts.

  7. 2022

    A TWAS-LACREP award

    In 2022, he receives the TWAS-LACREP Young Scientists Award for contributions to natural language processing and open-source software.

  8. Since 2024

    Associate professor and AI director

    In 2024, Universidad de Chile promotes him to associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, in recognition of his teaching, research, and outreach. He directs the university's Data and Artificial Intelligence Initiative in the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.

Career

  1. Since 2024University of ChileAssociate Professor
  2. Since 2024Faculty of Physical and Mathematical SciencesDirector
  3. 2017–2019University of WaikatoResearch Fellow
  4. 2011–2013YahooResearch Engineer

Education

  1. 2017University of WaikatoPhD
  2. 2013University of ChileMaster's degree in computer science
  3. 2010University of ChileComputer engineering degree

From the biography.

  1. 23% of people shaping AI who left a university for a company later returned to a universityIncludes Felipe Bravo-Marquez. We estimate that 468 of the 2,011 people shaping AI who left a university for a company (23%) later returned to a university after a median of 5 years, and 163 of 829 (20%) made the reverse round trip.
  2. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes University of Chile. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  3. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes University of Chile. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  4. Universities keep AI researchers for a median of 6 years, compared with 2 years at frontier labsIncludes Yahoo. Across 15,811 dated work stays (6,529 people), median role tenure runs from 6 years at universities to 2 years at frontier labs. We compare all five organization types, starting decades from the 1970s to the 2020s, and the organizations that keep people longest.

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Sources and credits

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  1. Web Format - Felipe Bravo-Marquez felipebravom.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. WASSA-2017 Shared Task on Emotion Intensity aclanthology.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. AffectiveTweets: a Weka package for analyzing affect in tweets researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. FELIPE BRAVO IS HONORED WITH THE TWAS-LACREP YOUNG SCIENTISTS AWARD 2022 cenia.cl. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. Profesor Felipe Bravo Márquez es ascendido a Profesor Asociado de la Universidad de Chile comunicaciones.dcc.uchile.cl. Checked 21 October 2026.