PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Romina Torres

Also known as Romina Torres Torres

Romina Torres is a computer science researcher in Chile whose work joins artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, from detecting multi-stage cyberattacks to explainable and trustworthy machine learning. After engineering degrees in 2003 and a doctorate in 2014 at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, she served as alternate director of a FONDEF project on an intelligent system for cardiovascular telerehabilitation from 2019 to 2022, and led an ANID Fondecyt project on multi-stage attacks from 2022 to 2025. In 2025, she published a Transformer-based method that attributes network attacks to specific attackers and took part in the U.S. Department of State's Humphrey Fellowship; in 2026, she coauthored TWEEF, a framework for estimating the trustworthiness of machine-learning models. She is an associate professor at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, a principal researcher at Data Observatory and a CENIA researcher who heads the AI Safety component of the LatamGPT language model.

Timeline

  1. 2002–2014

    Degrees at Santa María

    In 2002, Conicyt selects her for its first technology internship program in Silicon Valley. She earns an engineering degree in computer science and a master's degree in computer engineering science at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María in 2003, and a doctorate in computer engineering there in 2014.

  2. 2019–2022

    Cardiovascular telerehabilitation project

    From 2019 to 2022, she is alternate director of FONDEF IDEA I+D project ID19I10356, carried out with Fundación Kaplan to develop an intelligent system that supports the telerehabilitation of cardiovascular patients.

  3. 2019–2023

    Honours for cybersecurity and AI

    The Senate of Chile recognizes her in 2019 as a member of the Instituto Nacional de Ciberseguridad, and Viña del Mar names her an outstanding woman in innovation in 2020. The Alianza Chilena de Ciberseguridad names her a Woman in Cybersecurity in 2021, and in 2022 the Atlantic Council's GeoTech Center selects her for its AI-Connect international program on responsible AI. In 2023, she receives the award for contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, for Goal 5, gender equality.

  4. 2022–2025

    Tracking multi-stage cyberattacks

    From 2022 to 2025, she is principal investigator of ANID Fondecyt de iniciación project 11221155, a framework to detect, monitor and analyze the evolution of multi-stage cyberattacks during runtime.

  5. 2025

    Attributing network attacks with Transformers

    Her paper on attacker attribution in multi-step and multi-adversarial network attacks appears in Applied Sciences in 2025. A Transformer-encoder model classifies sequences of network alerts from capture-the-flag data and reaches 99.98% accuracy, against 80.62% for a multilayer-perceptron baseline.

  6. 2025

    A Humphrey Fellowship

    In 2025, she takes part in the U.S. Department of State's Distinguished Humphrey Fellowship Program on Emerging Technology Policy, with academic activities at Duke University and a visiting professorship at the Army Cyber Institute at West Point.

  7. 2026

    The TWEEF trust framework

    In 2026, she coauthors TWEEF in Applied Sciences, a modular framework that evaluates the trustworthiness of machine-learning models through performance, fairness and interpretability.

  8. As of October 2026

    Professor and AI safety researcher

    She is an associate professor at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, where the AwareLab group develops Intrusion.Aware, a FONDEF platform that combines host-level monitoring, intrusion detection and explanations for the triage process. She is a principal researcher at Data Observatory and a CENIA researcher who heads the AI Safety component of the LatamGPT language model. In August 2026, she takes part in the Humphrey Alumni Global Policy Dialogue in Quito.

Career

  1. NowAdolfo Ibáñez UniversityAssociate Professor
  2. NowData ObservatoryPrincipal Researcher
  3. NowNational Center for Artificial IntelligenceResearcher
  4. 2025United States ArmyVisiting Professor

Education

  1. 2014Federico Santa María Technical UniversityDoctorate in computer engineering
  2. 2003Federico Santa María Technical UniversityEngineering degree in computer science

From the biography.

  1. The United States employs an estimated 48% of people shaping AIIncludes National Center for Artificial Intelligence. We estimate where the people shaping AI work today, how universities, companies and research institutes split across countries, and how country shares have changed since the 1960s.
  2. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Adolfo Ibáñez University. 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.
  3. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Federico Santa María Technical University. 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.
  4. Google had the most people shaping AI every year from 2014 to 2025Our estimates of which organizations employed the most people shaping AI each year from 1955 to 2025, tracing the shift from university labs to companies.

Sources and credits

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  1. Proyectos Romina Torres Torres | Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez uai.cl. Checked 22 October 2026.
  2. Romina Torres - UAI uai.cl. Checked 22 October 2026.
  3. Romina Torres – KHIPU khipu.ai. Checked 22 October 2026.
  4. Perfiles - CENIA cenia.cl. Checked 22 October 2026.
  5. Romina Torres, investigadora de Data Observatory: "No puede existir una estrategia sólida de IA sin una estrategia sólida de datos" dataobservatory.net. Checked 22 October 2026.
  6. LARSeC Members & Collaborators larsec.prpi.usp.br. Checked 22 October 2026.
  7. INFONOR 2026 - Dra. Romina Torres Torres infonor2026.unap.cl. Checked 22 October 2026.