Santiago Castro

Researcher, Universidad de la República

Researcher, Netflix

Joined

May 2019

Names

Santiago Castro (Preferred)

Emails

****@umich.edu (Confirmed)

****@fing.edu.uy (Confirmed)

****@netflix.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

Universidad de la República (fing.edu.uy)

2025 – Present

Researcher

Netflix (netflix.com)

2024 – Present

Intern

Netflix (netflix.com)

2023 – 2024

PhD student

University of Michigan (umich.edu)

2018 – 2024

Intern

Google (google.com)

2022 – 2022

Intern

Adobe (adobe.com)

2021 – 2021

Instructor

Universidad de la República (fing.edu.uy)

2014 – 2018

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Rada Mihalcea

2018 – 2024

Expertise

video understanding

2018 – Present

video representation learning

2018 – Present

language and vision

2018 – Present

vision and language

2018 – Present

humor

2014 – Present

Publications

FIBER: Fill-in-the-Blanks as a Challenging Video Understanding Evaluation Framework
Santiago Castro, Ruoyao Wang, Pingxuan Huang, Ian Stewart, Oana Ignat, Nan Liu, Jonathan C. Stroud, Rada Mihalcea
- ACL
- Readers: Everyone
Has It All Been Solved? Open NLP Research Questions Not Solved by Large Language Models
Oana Ignat, Zhijing Jin, Artem Abzaliev, Laura Biester, Santiago Castro, Naihao Deng, Xinyi Gao, Aylin Ece Gunal, Jacky He, Ashkan Kazemi, Muhammad Khalifa, Nam Ho Koh, Andrew Lee, Siyang Liu, Do June Min, Shinka Mori, Joan Nwatu, Veronica Perez-Rosas, Siqi Shen, Zekun Wang et al. (2 additional authors not shown)
- LREC-COLING 202
- Readers: Everyone
Phenaki: Variable Length Video Generation from Open Domain Textual Descriptions
Ruben Villegas, Mohammad Babaeizadeh, Pieter-Jan Kindermans, Hernan Moraldo, Han Zhang, Mohammad Taghi Saffar, Santiago Castro, Julius Kunze, Dumitru Erhan
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 14 Jan 2026
- ICLR 2023 poster
- Readers: Everyone
FIBER: Fill-in-the-Blanks as a Challenging Video Understanding Evaluation Framework
Santiago Castro, Ruoyao Wang, Pingxuan Huang, Ian Stewart, Oana Ignat, Nan Liu, Jonathan C. Stroud, Rada Mihalcea
- 2022 (modified: 27 Sept 2022)
- ACL (1) 2022
- Readers: Everyone
When Did It Happen? Duration-informed Temporal Localization of Narrated Actions in Vlogs
Oana Ignat, Santiago Castro, Yuhang Zhou, Jiajun Bao, Dandan Shan, Rada Mihalcea
- 2022 (modified: 27 Sept 2022)
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone
FitCLIP: Refining Large-Scale Pretrained Image-Text Models for Zero-Shot Video Understanding Tasks
Santiago Castro, Fabian Caba Heilbron
- 2022 (modified: 27 Sept 2022)
- CoRR 2022
- Readers: Everyone
WhyAct: Identifying Action Reasons in Lifestyle Vlogs
Oana Ignat, Santiago Castro, Hanwen Miao, Weiji Li, Rada Mihalcea
- 2021 (modified: 27 Sept 2022)
- EMNLP (1) 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Overview of HAHA at IberLEF 2021: Detecting, Rating and Analyzing Humor in Spanish
Luis Chiruzzo, Santiago Castro, Santiago Góngora, Aiala Rosá, J. A. Meaney, Rada Mihalcea
- 2021 (modified: 27 Sept 2022)
- Proces. del Leng. Natural 2021
- Readers: Everyone
WhyAct: Identifying Action Reasons in Lifestyle Vlogs
Oana Ignat, Santiago Castro, Hanwen Miao, Weiji Li, Rada Mihalcea
- 2021 (modified: 27 Sept 2022)
- CoRR 2021
- Readers: Everyone
Fill-in-the-blank as a Challenging Video Understanding Evaluation Framework
Santiago Castro, Ruoyao Wang, Pingxuan Huang, Ian Stewart, Nan Liu, Jonathan C. Stroud, Rada Mihalcea
- 2021 (modified: 27 Sept 2022)
- CoRR 2021
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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