CV
Education
- Ph.D. Complex Systems Engineering, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, 2019.
- M.Sc. Physics, Universidad de Concepcion, 2015.
- P.E. Physical Engineering, Universidad de Concepcion, 2015.
- Undergraduate Degree in Physics, Universidad de Concepcion, 2012.
Experience
- Associate Professor, Facultad de Administracion y Economia, Universidad Diego Portales, August 2025-Present.
- co-Director, Master in Business Analytics and Data Science, Facultad de Administracion y Economia - Facultad de Ingenieria y Ciencias, Universidad Diego Portales, June 2024-Present.
- Co-founder, Whitebox S.A., Consultora de Analisis de Datos, January 2025-Present.
- Director, Master in Digital Business and Data Analytics (Full time), Facultad de Administracion y Economia, Universidad Diego Portales, June 2024-Present.
- Director, Diploma in Innovation and Digital Transformation - SUBDERE, Facultad de Administracion y Economia, Universidad Diego Portales, October 2024-January 2025.
- Director, Master in Digital Business, Facultad de Administracion y Economia, Universidad Diego Portales, October 2022-Present.
- Director, Centro de Investigacion Empirica en Negocios (CIEN), Facultad de Administracion y Economia, Universidad Diego Portales, March 2022-January 2024.
- C22 project researcher, Centro de Estudios Publicos, CEP Chile, October 2021-Present.
- Assistant Professor, Facultad de Administracion y Economia, Universidad Diego Portales, March 2020-August 2025.
- Part time, Facultad de Ingenieria y Ciencias, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, March-December 2019.
Research
I’m interested in machine learning, data science, business intelligence, data mining, deep learning and neural networks with random weights.
Professional Activities
- Academic Editor, PLOS ONE, 2023-present.
- Academic Editor, PLOS Complex Systems, 2024-present.
- FONDECYT Project Reviewer.
- Reviewer for: Neurocomputing, Expert Systems with Applications, Microchemical Journal, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Applied Soft Computing, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Pattern Recognition, Heliyon, International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems.
Computer Skills
- Programming: R-Project, Python, Matlab, Octave, Shell Bash.
- Platform: Linux, Mac OS, Windows.
- Typography: LaTeX.
Languages
- Spanish: Native.
- English: Complete.
Scholarships
- Doctoral Scholarship, granted by CONICYT (2015-Folio: 21150790).
- M.Sc. Scholarship, granted by CONICYT (2013-Folio: 22130851).