Jorge Pérez is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Universidad de Chile, and Associate Researcher at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data. His research interests include data exchange and integration, Web data, and the theory of modern neural network architectures. He has received several awards for his research, including the best paper award in 5 international conferences, the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship, and the SWSA Ten-Years Award for his work on query languages for Web data. His interests also include the analysis of social, medical and political text data, particularly in Spanish.