I am a Full Professor of Computer Science and Vice Dean of the Engineering Faculty at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso (PUCV). Previously, I served for nine years as Head of the Informatics Engineering School at the PUCV. I received my Engineering degree from the same School in 2003 and my PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Nantes, France, in 2009.

My areas of research interest include Metaheuristics, Machine Learning, Autonomous Search, and Constraint Programming. In this context, I have published more than 350 scientific papers in different international conferences and journals, various of them top ranked in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. I have also participated as leader and co-leader of an important number of national and international research projects in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence.

My teaching experience involves several courses such as Operations Research, Combinatorial Optimization, Constraint Programming, Metaheuristics, Data Structures, Logic Programming, Automata Theory, and Compiler Design. I have also supervised more than 80 students from Engineering, Master, and PhD programs, most of them have participated in my research projects.

Contact

Av. Brasil 2241
Valparaíso, MA 4059

Teaching

Here you can review the content of the courses I'm currently teaching for each career.

Informatics Engineering (8 semester career)

Informatics Engineering (11 semester career)

Masters in Computer Science

PhD in Computer Science

PhD. Alumni

Álvaro Gómez, PhD.

Nicolas Caselli, PhD.

Cristian Galleguillos, PhD.

Boris Almonacid, PhD.

Francisco González, PhD.

Emanuel Vega, PhD.

Rodrigo Olivares, PhD.

Masters Alumni

2013

Rodrigo Muñoz.
Boris Almonacid.

2015

Rodrigo Herrera.
Rodrigo Olivares.

2016

Emanuel Vega.
Sebastián Lizama.
Jorge Barraza.
José Viches.
Jaqueline Lama.
Carlos Castillo.
Nicolás Fernández.

2017

Ignacio Figueroa.
Jaime Romero.
Héctor Ortega.
César Carrasco.
Roberto Zulantay.

2018

Francisco González.
Sebastián Matus de la Parra.
Angelo Aste.
Kevin Aballay.
Pablo Camacho.
Diego Hidalgo.

2019

Francisco González Molina.

2020

Sergio Valdivia Castro.
Oscar Carrasco Vera.
Mauricio Castillo del Pino.

Publications

You can access the following databases to read about my publications.

Projects

2024-2026, Director, FONDEF IDeA I+D 2024 ID24i10332, ANID. Sistema de Monitoreo y prevención de daños en puentes en base a modelos de predicción generados mediante inteligencia artificial.
2022, Principal Investigator, DI Regular 209.769/2022 MOD: FONDECYT Regular Proyecto puente, Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados, PUCV. Building Reactive Learning-based Metaheuristics.
2021-2023, Co-Investigator, FONDECYT Regular 1171243, ANID. Data-driven ambidextrous metaheuristics: using machine learning approaches to manage balance of exploration and exploitation when solving combinatorial problems with continuous swarm intelligence algorithm.
2019-2022, Principal Investigator, FONDECYT Regular 1190129, CONICYT. Building Reactive Learning-based Metaheuristics.

2019-2022, Principal Investigator, DI Regular 209.762/2019 MOD: FONDECYT Regular, Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados, PUCV. Building Reactive Learning-based Metaheuristics.

2017-2021, Co-Investigator, FONDECYT Regular 1171243, CONICYT. An autonomous search system configuring continuous-variable-based metaheuristics for solving combinatorial problems.

2017, Co-Investigator, Concurso DOC-INNOVA, Proyecto CORFO 14ENI2-26905 Nueva Ingeniería para el 2030, Facultad de Ingeniería, PUCV. Sistema de apoyo didáctica para el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje de la escritura del trabajo de título de la carrera de Ingeniería Civil Informática.

2016-2019, Principal Investigator, FONDECYT Regular 1160455, CONICYT. On-line autonomous search for recent bio-inspired metaheuristics.

2016-2019, Principal Investigator, DI Regular 209.757/2016 MOD: FONDECYT Regular, Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados, PUCV. On-line autonomous search for recent bio-inspired metaheuristics.

2014-2016, Co-Investigator, FONDECYT Regular 1140897, CONICYT. An Autonomous Search System to Hybrid Constraint Solver Cooperation.

2013-2014, Principal Investigator, FONDECYT Iniciación 11130459, CONICYT. Adaptive Enumeration and Propagation in Constraint Programming.:

2013-2014, Principal Investigator, DI Regular 209.752/2013 MOD: FONDECYT Iniciación, Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados, PUCV. Adaptive Enumeration and Propagation in Constraint Programming.

2013, Principal Investigator, DI Regular 209.751/2013 MOD: Puntaje de corte, Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados, PUCV. Extending the Architecture for Autonomous Search in Constraint Programming.

2012-2013, Co-Investigator, INRIA associate team, INRIA, France. BANANAS: Automated design and autonomous control of hybrid solver cooperations.

2012, Co-Investigator, PUCV/INF-INV-03 2012, Escuela de Ingeniería Informática, PUCV. Diseño e Implementación de un Solver basado en Búsqueda Autónoma para la Resolución de Problemas Combinatoriales.

2012, Principal Investigator, PUCV/INF-INV-02 2012, Escuela de Ingeniería Informática, PUCV. Clasificadores de Estrategias para Búsqueda Autónoma.

2011, Principal Investigator, DI Regular 037.350/2011, Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados, PUCV. Hacia el desarrollo de un lenguaje estandar para la programación con restricciones.

Journal Referee

Connection Science, Taylor & Francis.
Information and Software Technology, Elsevier.
Computers & Operations Research, Elsevier.

Program Committee Member

2020, Program Committee Member, XLVI CLEI 2020 -Lat.Am.Symp. on Data Management Systems (SLMDI)
2019, Program Committee Member, XLV CLEI 2019 -Lat.Am.Symp. on Data Management Systems (SLMDI)
2019, Program Committee Member (Encuentro de Tesistas), XXXV International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC).

2018, Program Committee Member, XXXVII International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC).

2017, Program Committee Member (Jornadas Chilenas de Computación), XXXVI International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC).

2017, Program Committee Member, XXXVI International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC).

2016, Program Committee Member, 19th Iberoamerican Conference on Software Engineering (CIbSE-SET).

2016, Program Committee Member, XXXV International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC).

2015, Chair, XXXIV International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC).

2015, Program Committee Member, 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

2015, Program Committee Member, 2nd Latin American School on Software Engineering (ELA-ES 2015).

2015, Program Committee Member, 18th Iberoamerican Conference on Software Engineering (CIbSE-SET).

2015, Program Committee Member, 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS).

2015, Program Committee Member, Constraint Solving and Programming and Knowledge Representation Track in 30th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC).

2014, Session Chair, 20th Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS).

2014, Program Committee Member, Workshop on Combinatorial Search (IWoCS) in conjunction with the 14th edition of the Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA).

2014, Program Committee Member, 6th IEEE International Conference On Adaptive Science & Technology (ICAST).

2014, Program Committee Member, 5th International Conference on Computational Logistics (ICCL).

2014, Program Committee Member, 17th Iberoamerican Conference on Software Engineering (CIbSE).

2014, Program Committee Member, 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS).

2014, Program Committee Member, Constraint Solving and Programming Track in 29th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC).

2013, Program Committee Member, 10th Chilean Conference on Operational Research (OPTIMA).

2012, Program Committee Member, 11th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI).

2012, Program Committee Member, 31th International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC).

2012, Program Committee Member, Chilean Doctoral Meeting in Computer Science (ET).

2012, Chair, 24th Chilean Meeting in Computer Science (ECC).

2011, Program Committee Member, 30th International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC).

2011, Program Committee Member, 3rd Workshop on Agents and Collaborative Systems (WASC).

2010, Program Committee Member, 2nd Workshop on Agents and Collaborative Systems (WASC).

Other Activities

Computer and Informatics Committee Member, FORMACIÓN CAPITAL HUMANO AVANZADO - CONICYT.
RdgConsult Reviewer for InnovaChile-CORFO.
IdeaConsultora Reviewer for InnovaChile-CORFO.

Contact

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Teaching

Informatics Engineering (8 semester career)

Informatics Engineering (11 semester career)

Masters in Computer Science

PhD in Computer Science

PhD. Alumni

Masters Alumni

Publications

Projects

Journal Referee

Program Committee Member

Other Activities

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