I am a final-year student of the PhD in Engineering Sciences at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC). In addition to my doctoral studies, I am pursuing a diploma in artificial intelligence at PUC.
My doctoral thesis focuses on Game Theory from the perspective of Operations Research. Specifically, I study Stackelberg games in security contexts, considering the polyhedral structure of defense strategies.
I previously studied Industrial Civil Engineering (2014-2018) and master’s in industrial engineering (2017-2018) at Universidad del Bío-Bío, Chile. I had the opportunity to pursue these 2 degrees in parallel thanks to my good academic performance. I am proud to have received the University of Bío-Bío Award at the end of my studies. This is the highest award for academic excellence at my university.

During my PhD studies, I had the privilege to do a PhD internship at the renowned INRIA center in Lille (France), where I did research on Stackelberg games and polyhedral structures (2022).
During my master's degree I did a research internship at the GERAD research center (Montreal, Canada), associated to the Université du Québec à Montréal, in charge of PhD. Claudio Contardo and PhD. Daniel Aloise, where I studied a graph partitioning problem to minimize the Shortest Path of each partition.

During my undergraduate studies, I did a research internship at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, supervised by PhD. Vladimir Marianov. The topic studied was "Localization of Facilities in Competitive Contexts" considering comparison shopping behavior.

In addition to my research work, I co-founded two programming communities in Chile: Python Chile and PyLadies Santiago de Chile. Our main goal is to promote the use of the Python programming language in Chile. As part of our initiatives, we organized the first PyCon Conference in Chile and have maintained it annually since then.

EDUCATION AND DEGREES

      • Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences. Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (2019-Present).

      • Certificate Program in Artificial Intelligence. Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (June 2023 -Present).

      • Master of Engineering Sciences. University of Bío-Bío (2017-2018).

      • Bachelor of Industrial Civil Engineering. University of Bío-Bío (2014-2018).

      • Bachelor of Engineering Sciences. University of Bío-Bío (2014-2017).


        • SELECTED AWARDS


      • Grant to conduct research in INRIA (Lille, France), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and INRIA, Chile and France 2022.

      • CONICYT scholarship for research internships, CONICYT, Chile 2022.

      • Bourses de sejour scientifique, Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS), Belgium 2020

      • Doctorate scholarship CONICYT, Chile 2019-2023

      • Highest-GPA of the generation Award, Universidad del Bío-Bío, Chile 2018.

      • Grant to conduct research in Canada, Universidad del Bío-Bío, Chile 2018.

      • Grant to conduct research in Canada (ELAP), Government of Canada, Canada 2018.

      • Scholarship of the Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Universidad del Bío-Bío, Chile 2017, 2018.

      • Grant to conduct research at Pontificia Universidad Católica, Universidad del Bío-Bío and Pontificia Universidad Católica, Chile 2018.

      • Award to the Highest ranking of the cohort, Universidad del Bío-Bío, Chile 2016, 2018.

      • Academic Excellency Scholarship, Chilean Ministry of Education, Chile 2014-2018.

SKILLS

      • Programming Languages and Others

      • JULIA (Advanced). I learnt JULIA while I was at GERAD (Montreal 2018), and since then it is my favorite language. I even did the translation of one of the first books in Spanish of JULIA Introducción a la Programación en Julia.

      • PYTHON (Advanced). Python has become the default language when using artificial intelligence. It is also a great tool for Optimization, among many other uses.

      • C++ (Intermediate). A language that brings all the history of the C language cannot but be a very powerful extension. My second programming language was C++ (the first was C), which I used to program heuristics and exact methods.

      • CPLEX (Advanced). Excellent solver when required to solve optimization problems, given its great flexibility. I have used CPLEX with Python and C++.

      • GUROBI(Advanced). I have been surprised by its intuitive interface and its performance on par with CPLEX, in most cases. I have used Gurobi with Python.

      • SCIP (Advanced). I love SCIP. It is open-source and it allows doing Branch-and-price in an easy way. What more can you ask for?.

      • ARDUINO (Intermediate). It's incredibly rewarding to see the first LED light up or to build your first circuit board. With Arduino, I collaborated with my mechatronics group from Revista Macrofacultad UBB to construct a 3D printer Revista Macrofacultad UBB.



        • RESEARCH EXPERIENCE


      • Centre de Recherche INRIA Lille-Nord, France – Research Intern (Mar 2022 — Jan 2023).

      • Research project FONDECYT N° 1190064, Chile - Research assistant (2019 — 2021).

      • GERAD (Group for Research in Decision Analysis) and UQAM (Université du Québec à Montréal), Canada – Research Assistant (Sep 2018 — Feb 2019).

      • Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile – Research Assistant (Jan — Feb 2018).

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS

My goal is to create an inclusive and diverse research community within my program. Therefore, I invite and encourage anyone who shares similar research interests to reach out to me.

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