Dr. Pedro Salcedo
Pedro Salcedo is a Full Professor at the Universidad de Concepción de Chile. Professor of Mathematics and Physics, Master in Computer Science and Doctor in Computer Engineering, with specialization in Artificial Intelligence for Education. He is currently a Postgraduate Director of the Faculty of Education, Director of the Master in Educational Information Technology for Teaching and member of the Linguistics, Psychology and Education Doctorates of the Universidad de Concepción. He has also been a member of the Conicyt in Education study groups and is currently a member of the CNA's postgraduate education committee.
His studies on Artificial Intelligence techniques applied to education have allowed him to design and develop various adaptive software, which allows improving the teaching-learning processes, considering the psychological and social characteristics of the students. This is how, in his doctoral thesis, he implements a distance education platform that adapts his teaching strategies to the students' learning styles, their social characteristics and the knowledge that the student has, for which he trains a neural network with more than 250,000 cases and complements it with Bayesian network techniques for the selection of the most appropriate activities.
In the last ten years, his studies have been aimed at describing the vocabulary available in high school students, students of pedagogy and academics in the area of mathematics, the relationship with semantic structures that are formed in the memory of individuals and their impact on academic performance. This work has allowed him to propose indices for the study of the individual lexical availability from the graphs and its application to the development of online software to measure and study this information. Also allowing the implementation of adaptive tutorials to the lexicon needs of the students and the proposal of an Ontology for the use of this information by other systems.
All the above has allowed national and international scientific recognition, with more than 10 publications on the results of these studies, award of two Fondecyt to investigate the incidence of the lexicon in the learning of mathematics, invitation to dictate lectures and classes (University of Salamanca, University of La Rioja, University of Cordoba, Spain) and to work with specialized research groups in the discipline.
Previous works have allowed him to be part of the PhD in Linguistics of the University of Concepción, joining the research line of Applied Linguistics and currently guiding 3 doctoral theses using the techniques of lexical availability and the associated methodology for the study. In addition to being a sponsor of a post-doctoral project presented to Conicyt 2018, which is expected to develop a platform to improve intercultural communication using the lexicon available among other techniques.