News

News, announcements and open calls

Milestones, awards, publications, announcements and open calls from the lab.

Recognition

13 October 2026

Dina Maribel Yana Yucra becomes a RENACYT level VII researcher

We congratulate Dina Maribel Yana Yucra, a Statistical and Computer Engineering student and member of LaCima, on qualifying as a RENACYT Level VII Researcher on the strength of her scientific articles. The recognition highlights her contribution to data science, artificial intelligence and environmental applications, and shows the scientific potential of our undergraduate students.

Recognition

10 October 2026

Richar Andre Vilca Solorzano becomes a RENACYT level VII researcher

LaCima congratulates Richar Andre Vilca Solorzano, a Statistical and Computer Engineering student at UNAP, on qualifying as a RENACYT Level VII Researcher on the strength of his scientific articles. His achievement strengthens the laboratory's research in artificial intelligence, data science and computing.

Publication

5 October 2026

Exoplanet detection with physics-informed machine learning

New Scopus-indexed paper in the Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy (Springer, vol. 47, art. 53, 21 August 2026). The study combines box least squares, attention-based CNNs and gradient boosting to identify planetary transits.

Publication

1 October 2026

CITAE: AI to find, verify and cite academic sources

We published in the journal Informatica the development of CITAE, an artificial-intelligence platform that helps researchers and thesis writers work reliably with academic sources by showing the passage behind every answer.

Publication

25 September 2026

AgroYachay published in SoftwareX (Elsevier)

AgroYachay is the result of sustained teamwork: precision-agriculture software that combines IoT, artificial intelligence and analytics to support the decisions of Andean smallholders.

Observance

16 September 2026

Science, technology and innovation from our regions

On the International Day for South-South Cooperation in Science, Technology and Innovation we recall that great ideas are also born in the regions. From the Altiplano we can research, innovate and contribute to the country and the world.

Milestone

9 September 2026

LaCima approved by the Faculty Council

On 9 September 2026 LaCima was approved by the FINESI Faculty Council, establishing a space devoted to research, innovation and knowledge creation. It marks the start of a stage we take on with enthusiasm: to research, innovate, share knowledge and make an impact from our region to the country and the world.

Publication

10 July 2026

Two papers accepted: exoplanets and supercomputing

The Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy (Springer) accepted our interpretable pipeline for detecting exoplanets in Kepler photometry, with a ROC-AUC of 0.9948. Informatica accepted the study on runtime prediction and energy savings over 7.3 million jobs from NREL's Eagle supercomputer. Both are signed by all five lab members.

Recognition

20 November 2025

Third place in the Research Vice-Rectorate poster competition

Richar Andre Vilca Solorzano represented the lab with a poster on frost prediction in the Altiplano using statistical learning, machine learning and deep learning, winning third place in the UNAP Research Vice-Rectorate competition.

Publication

15 September 2025

First indexed paper: frost prediction in IJACSA

LaCima reached its first international scientific milestone: the comparison of statistical, machine-learning and deep-learning approaches to frost prediction in the Peruvian Altiplano, published in IJACSA (vol. 16, no. 9) and indexed in Scopus.

Milestone

9 October 2024

LaCima is born: computing and artificial intelligence at FINESI

On 9 October 2024 LaCima was established within the FINESI Junior Researchers programme, with five founding members: Vladimiro Ibáñez Quispe as coordinator, Fred Torres Cruz as co-coordinator, and students Dina Maribel Yana Yucra, Richar Andre Vilca Solorzano and Renato Quispe Vargas.