Awards
Academic
PhD Fellow (FPI), Computer Science (Specialized in Artificial Intelligence), Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), 2021-2025.
Highest-GPA of the generation, M.S. Computer Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile, 2017-2018.
Graduated with highest distinction. Bachelor of Computer Science, Universidad de los Lagos, Chile, 2011-2015.
Research
Together with Christian Blum, we won the Best Paper Award (Workshop on Computational Optimization) at the FedCSIS conference for our paper: Boosting a Genetic Algorithm with Graph Neural Networks for Multi-Hop Influence Maximization in Social Networks presented in Sofia, Bulgaria (2022).
Industry
Mining Tag S.A. (Chile) chose me as the best worker of the year 2014, for my contributions to the design and implementation of the company's first software.
Social Networks
I was selected as Best Writer on QuoraES for five consecutive years (2018-2022), for my over 800 answers on computer science.