Curriculum Vitae

Positions

• (since 2021) Full Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Chile.
• (2013-2020) Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Chile.
• (2007-2012) Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Chile.

Obtained degrees

• (2006) Doctor of Natural Sciences (Dr. rer. nat.), Universität Konstanz, Germany.
• (2002) M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Chile, Chile.
• (2001) Computer Engineer, University of Chile, Chile.
• (1999) B.Sc. in Engineering with a major in Computer Science, University of Chile, Chile.

Research

Research projects

• (2018-2028) Associate researcher at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), Chile.
• (2023-2025) Main researcher in FONDECYT (Chile) Project 1230448, Algorithms for Multi-Labelling and Retrieval of Cultural Heritage 3D Models.
• (2019-2022) International collaborator in FWF (Austria) Project P31317-NBL, CrossSAVE-CH: Crossmodal Search and Visual Exploration of 3D Cultural Heritage Objects.
• (2018-2019) Main researcher in Stic-AmSud Project 18-STIC-09, Transforming multimedia data for indexing and retrieval purposes.
• (2014-2017) Young researcher at the Millennium Nucleus Center for Semantic Web Research, Grant NC 120004, Chile.
• (2014-2016) Main researcher in FONDECYT (Chile) Project 1140783, Efficient 3D Shape Matching Using Local Descriptors.
• (2014-2015) Main researcher in Stic-AmSud Project 14STIC-04, Unsupervised Multimedia Content Mining.
• (2011-2013) Main researcher in FONDECYT (Chile) Project 1110111, Interest Points Detection Algorithms for 3D Shape Matching.
• (2011-2013) Main researcher in FONDEF (Chile) Project D09I1185, Real-Time Scalable Observatories in the Web.
• (2010) Researcher (chilean part) in the German Research Foundation DFG within Chile-German Cooperation Program, Project number SCHR 1229/2-1 "German-Chile Research Cooperation on 3D Object Retrieval".
• (2007-2009) Main researcher in FONDECYT (Chile) Project 11070037, Effective and Efficient Retrieval in Multimedia Databases. The project was ranked 2nd among 29 applications.
• (2007-2008) Young researcher at the Millennium Nucleus Center for Web Research, Grant P04-067-F, Mideplan, Chile.
• (2002-2006) Research assistant in German Research Foundation (DFG) Project No. KE 740/6-1 (Daniel Keim, head), 3D Model Similarity Search, within the strategic research initiative "Distributed Processing and Delivery of Digital Documents" (V3D2), SPP 1041.
• (2000-2001) Research assistant in FONDECYT (Chile) Project 1-000929 (Gonzalo Navarro, head), Searching for Similar Objects.

Publications

Invited talks

• (2021) Invited talk at XVII Workshop on Computational Vision (WVC2021), "Repetitive Pattern Recognition on Textured 3D Surfaces". Plenary talk.
• (2015) Keynote talk at 13th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI'15), "3D Object Retrieval: history and future challenges". Plenary talk.
• (2011) Invited talk at the University of Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile. Title: "Content-based multimedia information retrieval: theory and industrial applications". Plenary talk.
• (2011) Invited talk at the University of Bio-Bio, Concepcion, Chile. Title: "Content-based multimedia information retrieval: theory and industrial applications". Plenary talk.
• (2010) Invited talk at the University of Bio-Bio, Chillan, Chile. Title: "D-file: efficient search in metric spaces without indexing". Plenary talk.
• (2009) Invited talk at the IV Semana de la Ciencia de la Computación (SECICOMP'09), Trujillo, Perú Title: "Similarity search in metric spaces". Plenary talk.
• (2007) Invited talk at the Chilean Congress of Computing 2007 (JCC'07), Iquique, Chile. Title: "Efficient content-based search in multi-metric spaces". Plenary talk.
• (2007) Invited talk at the II Semana de la Ciencia de la Computación (SECICOMP'07), Trujillo, Perú Title: "Content-based search in 3D object databases". Plenary talk.

Refereeing and Program Committees

• (2018-2023) Associate Editor of The Visual Computer Journal.
• Programme Chair of:
  • International Conferences:
    • Symposium on 3D Object Retrieval (3DOR'24).
    • 7th Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (3DOR'14).
    • XXVIII International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC'09).
  • Local events:
    • Encuentro de Tesistas de la JCC'14.
• Program Committee member of:
  • International Conferences:
    • 37th Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images (SIBGRAPI'24).
    • 36th Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images (SIBGRAPI'23).
    • 9th IEEE Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence (LACCI'23).
    • 16th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP'23).
    • Symposium on 3D Object Retrieval 2023 (3DOR'23).
    • 35th Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images (SIBGRAPI'22).
    • IEEE Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence, Neural & Learning System track (LACCI'22).
    • 15th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP'22).
    • 3D Object Retrieval 2022 (3DOR'22).
    • 28th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM'22).
    • IEEE Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence (LACCI'21).
    • 34th Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images (SIBGRAPI'21).
    • 14th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP'21).
    • 3D Object Retrieval 2021 (3DOR'21).
    • 27th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM'21).
    • 13th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP'20).
    • 26th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM'20).
    • 13th EG EuroWorkshop On 3D Object Retrieval (3DOR'20).
    • 17th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA'20).
    • 12th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP'19).
    • 12th Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (3DOR'19).
    • 25th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM'19).
    • 11th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP'18).
    • 16th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA'18).
    • 11th Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (3DOR'18).
    • 24th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM'18).
    • 10th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP'17).
    • 10th Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (3DOR'17).
    • 23rd International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM'17).
    • 9th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP'16).
    • Eurographics 2016 Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (3DOR'16).
    • 15th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA'16).
    • 8th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP'15).
    • 20th International Conference on 3D Web Technology (Web3D'15).
    • Eurographics 2015 Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (3DOR'15).
    • 27th Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images (SIBGRAPI'14).
    • 7th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP'14).
    • Eurographics 2013 Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (3DOR'13).
    • 6th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP'13).
    • Eurographics 2012 Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (3DOR'12).
    • 4th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP'11).
    • Eurographics 2011 Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (3DOR'11).
    • Alberto Mendelzon International Workshop on Foundations of Data Management (AMW'11).
    • 30th International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC'11).
    • ACM Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2010).
    • Eurographics 2010 Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (3DOR'10).
  • Local events:
    • IV Lo Mejor de lo Nuestro (conjunto con JCC'13).
    • XXV Encuentro Chileno de Computación (ECC'13).
    • XXIV Encuentro Chileno de Computación (ECC'12).
    • XXIII Encuentro Chileno de Computación (ECC'11).
    • Encuentro de Tesistas de la JCC'10.
    • IX Jornada Peruana de Computación (JPC'10).
    • Encuentro Chileno de Computación (ECC'09).
    • Encuentro de Tesistas de la JCC'09.
    • Encuentro Chileno de Computación (ECC'08).
    • Encuentro Internacional de Computación (ENC'07, Scalable Pattern Recognition track).
• Reviewer for journals:
  • ACM Transactions on Database Systems.
  • ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications.
  • ACM Transactions on Information Systems.
  • IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.
  • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.
  • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B.
  • IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.
  • International Journal of Computer Vision.
  • Journal of Computational Geometry.
  • Pattern Recognition.
  • Data and Knowledge Engineering.
  • Computers and Graphics.
  • Knowledge and Information Systems.
  • Information Retrieval.
  • Information Systems.
  • Graphical Models.
  • Pattern Recognition Letters.
  • Neurocomputing.
  • Computer Vision and Image Understanding.
  • The Visual Computer.
  • Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation.
  • Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Information Sciences.
  • Computer-Aided Design.
  • Information Fusion.
  • Datenbank-Spektrum.
  • Inteligencia Artificial.

Research stays

• Short research stay at the Image and Multimedia Data Science Laboratory (IMScience), Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, October 29th-November 4th 2023. Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Contact: Prof. Dr. Silvio Guimaraes.
• Short research stay at the LINKMEDIA lab, Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires (IRISA), July 13th-21rd 2019. Rennes, France. Contact: Prof. Dr. Simon Malinowski.
• Short research stay at the Audio-Visual Processing Laboratory, Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, September 15th-22nd 2018. Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Contact: Prof. Dr. Silvio Guimaraes.
• Short research stay at the Institute for Computer Graphics and Knowledge Visualization, Technische Universität Graz, June 28nd-July 13th 2016. Graz, Austria. Contact: Prof. Dr. Tobias Schreck.
• Short research stay at the Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, June 8th-19th 2015. Prague, Czech Republic. Contact: Prof. Dr. Tomas Skopal.
• Short research stay at the LINKMEDIA lab, Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires (IRISA), May 16th-23rd 2015. Rennes, France. Contact: Dr. Guillaume Gravier.
• Short research stay at the Working Group for Visual Analytics, Universität Konstanz, November 22nd-December 6th 2014. Konstanz, Germany. Contact: Prof. Dr. Tobias Schreck.
• Short research stay at the Working Group for Visual Analytics, Universität Konstanz, September 1st-8th 2013. Konstanz, Germany. Contact: Prof. Dr. Tobias Schreck.
• Short research stay at the Working Group for Visual Analytics, Universität Konstanz, May 14th-25th 2012. Konstanz, Germany. Contact: Prof. Dr. Tobias Schreck.
• Short research stay at the Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, July 3rd-8th 2011. Prague, Czech Republic. Contact: Prof. Dr. Tomas Skopal.
• Short research stay at the Visual Search and Analysis Group, Interactive Graphics Systems, Technische Universität Darmstadt, July 19th-August 6th 2010. Darmstadt, Germany. Contact: Dr. Tobias Schreck.
• Short research stay at the Database Lab (LBD), University of A Coruña, November 23th-December 3rd, 2009. A Coruña, Spain. Contact: Prof. Dr. Nieves Brisaboa.
• Short research stay at the Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, August 22th-28th 2009. Prague, Czech Republic. Contact: Prof. Dr. Tomas Skopal.
• Short research stay at the Visual Search and Analysis Group, Interactive Graphics Systems, Technische Universität Darmstadt, July 13th-24th 2009. Darmstadt, Germany. Contact: Dr. Tobias Schreck.
• Short research stay at the Visual Search and Analysis Group, Interactive Graphics Systems, Technische Universität Darmstadt, July 14th-25th 2008. Darmstadt, Germany. Contact: Dr. Tobias Schreck.

Academic administration

All within the Department of Computer Science (DCC), University of Chile.

• (2024 - 2025) Coordinator of the course "Introduction to Programming".
• (Oct. 2021 - Oct. 2024) Member of the DCC Academic Evaluation Committee.
• (Mar. 2022 - Feb. 2024) Coordinator of Master of Information Technology Program.
• (Jul. 2018 - Jun. 2020) Director of the Department of Computer Science.
• (2016-2017) Teaching Coordinator.
• (2014-2017) Member of the DCC Academic Evaluation Committee.
• (2007-2015) Member of the Graduate Committee.
• (Jan. 2010 - Apr. 2012) Coordinator of M.Sc. in Computer Science Program.
• (2007-2009) Subcoordinator of Graduate Studies.

Teaching

Students

1. Jesus Perez Martin (co-guided with Jorge Perez).

1. Ricardo Aravena (co-guided with Magdalena Saldaña).

1. Ignacio Agloni.
2. Felipe Terraza (co-guided with Ivan Sipiran).

1. Valentina Zuñiga (co-guided with Ivan Sipiran).
2. Rodrigo Rapimán (co-guided with Ivan Sipiran).
3. Álvaro Garrido (co-guided with Ivan Sipiran).
4. Juan Pablo Tacchi (co-guided with Ivan Sipiran).
5. Néstor Valenzuela (co-guided with Ivan Sipiran).
6. Daniel Ortuño (co-guided with Sergio Salinas).
7. Antonio Vitalic (co-guided with Sebastian Ferrada).

Alumni

1. Arniel Labrada. 3D Shape Retrieval Using Neural Networks. University of Chile, 2024.
2. Diego Madariaga (co-guided with Javier Bustos-Jimenez). Short-Term Time Series Analysis And Prediction For Anticipatory Networking. University of Chile, 2023.
3. Ivana Bachmann (co-guided with Javier Bustos-Jimenez). Methods Based on Interdependent Networks to Analyze the Internet Robustness. University of Chile, 2022.
4. Sebastian Ferrada (co-guided with Aidan Hogan). Similarity-based Web Queries. University of Chile, 2021.
5. Heider Sanchez. Anomaly Detection in Streaming Multivariate Time Series. University of Chile, 2017.
6. Alfonso Ramirez (external advisor, co-guided with Jose Gonzalez). Segmentación de Objetos 3D y Detección de Automóviles en Escenarios Urbanos. Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Queretaro, Mexico, 2017.
7. Guillermo Cabrera (co-guided with Nancy Hitschfeld). Extraction and Classication of Objects from Astronomical Images in the Presence of Labeling Bias. University of Chile, 2015.
8. Ivan Sipiran. Local Features for Shape Matching and Retrieval. University of Chile, 2014.
9. Juan Manuel Barrios. Content-based Video Copy Detection. University of Chile, 2013.
10. José Saavedra. Image Descriptions for Sketch Based Image Retrieval. University of Chile, 2013.

1. Nicolas Bravo. Video Sentence Matching Using Dense Trajectories and Infersent. University of Chile, 2021.
2. Demian Schkolnik (co-guided with Nancy Hitschfeld). A Robust Void-finding Algorithm Using Computational Geometry and Parallelization Techniques. University of Chile, 2018.
3. Camila Alvarez. Using Automatic Clothing Labeling to Improve the Quality of Clothing Retrieval Systems. University of Chile, 2018.
4. Catalina Espinoza (co-guided with Marcela Munizaga). Caracterización y Reconocimiento de Usuarios a Través de la Observación de su Movilidad en Transporte Público. University of Chile, 2017.
5. Rodrigo Schulz (co-guided with Pablo Guerrero). Síntesis de Agarres para Grasping Robótico a Partir de Nubes de Puntos 3D. University of Chile, 2017.
6. Felipe Hernández (co-guided with Marcela Munizaga). Estructura Espacial Urbana de Movilidad desde Datos Masivos de Transporte Público en Santiago de Chile. University of Chile, 2017.
7. Sebastian Ferrada (co-guided with Aidan Hogan). IMGpedia: A Large-Scale Knowledge-Base to Perform Visuo-Semantic Queries over Wikimedia Commons Images. University of Chile, 2017.
8. Rafael Meruane. Evaluación de Algoritmos de Matching Parcial en Objetos 3D Utilizando un Escáner 3D Óptico Portátil. University of Chile, 2015.
9. Victor Sepúlveda. Indexamiento en Espacios No-Métricos. University of Chile, 2012.
10. Jonathan Frez. Establecimiento de Indicadores de Calidad para el Servicio de Acceso a Internet. University of Chile, 2011.

1. Sebastian Solanich (co-guided with Magdalena Saldaña). Transformers Multimodales para la Visualización y Análisis de Polarización Política Mediante Memes en Discursos de Redes Sociales. University of Chile, 2025.
2. Sebastian Sepulveda (co-guided with Ivan Sipiran). Reconocimiento de Patrones Repetitivos en Imágenes de Motivos de Herencia Cultural. University of Chile, 2024.
3. Matias Vergara (co-guided with Iván Sipirán). Aprendizaje Multietiqueta de Patrones Geométricos en Objetos de Herencia Cultural. University of Chile, 2023.

1. Carola Fernández. Evaluación de Métodos para Clasificación y Búsqueda de Textos Jurídicos. University of Chile, 2025.
2. Raúl Reyes. Predicción del Riesgo de Deserción de Estudiantes de Primer Año de Ingeniería Civil Industrial en una Institución de Educación Superior utilizando Técnicas de Machine Learning. University of Chile, 2024.
3. Hugo Gallardo. Modelo de Clasificación de Compras Públicas en Estándar UNCCS. University of Chile, 2023.
4. Diego Naranjo. Impacto del Audio para la Descripción Automática de Videos (Video to Text). University of Chile, 2021.

1. Sergio Gálvez (co-guided with Sebastian Ferrada). Diseño e Implementación de Base de Datos de Grafos Aplicada a Museo de la Universidad de Chile. University of Chile, 2025.
2. Diego Navarrete. Mejoramiento de Calidad de Imágenes Obtenidas a Través de Rayos X. University of Chile, 2025.
3. Diego León (co-guided with Francisco Förster). Generación de Imágenes Multi Resolución para Identificación de Galaxias en Tiempo Real. University of Chile, 2023.
4. Manuel Rojas. Generación de Mapas Vectoriales a partir de Escaneos de Espacios con Tecnología LIDAR en Dispositivos Apple. University of Chile, 2023.
5. Rosario Molina. Detección y Clasificación Automática de Colores de Frutas para la Aplicación Móvil QCFORMS. University of Chile, 2023.
6. Cristobal Jaramillo (co-guided with Magdalena Saldaña). Clasificadores de Memes con Deep Learning. University of Chile, 2022.
7. Nicolás Machuca. Combinador de Clasificadores para Identificar Memes. University of Chile, 2021.
8. Alberto Sara. Comparación de Descriptores para Clasificación de Memes. University of Chile, 2020.
9. Mario Cornejo. Alineación Automática de Modelos Dentales 3D para Previsualización de Tratamientos de Ortodoncia. University of Chile, 2019.
10. Paloma Pérez (co-guided with Pablo Estévez). Extensión del Filtro de Aproximación No Lineal para la Detección de Objetos Astronómicos. University of Chile, 2019.
11. Franco Sepúlveda. Sistema de Administración para Ofertas de Práctica, Memoria y Trabajos Internos para la Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas. University of Chile, 2019.
12. Paulo Sandoval. Evaluación Automática de Calidad de Impresión 3D. University of Chile, 2018.
13. Felipe Quintanilla. Cálculo de Descriptores de Imágenes en Dispositivos Android para un Servicio de Búsqueda de Videos. University of Chile, 2016.
14. Renato Onofri. Implementación de un Sistema Reconocedor de Eventos en Videos, con un Clasificador K-NN. University of Chile, 2014.
15. Diego Díaz. Implementación y Comparación de Descriptores para Búsqueda en Video. University of Chile, 2010.
16. Jaime Véliz. Investigación de Métodos Eficaces para Búsquedas por Similitud en Bases de Datos Multimedia. University of Chile, 2009.
17. Sebastián Kreft. Adaptación de Algoritmos para Indexamiento en Espacios Multimétricos. University of Chile, 2009.
18. Christian Rohrdantz. Ähnlichkeitssuche in Multimedia Datenbanken: Algorithmen zur effizienten Nächste-nachbarn-Suche. Universität Konstanz, Germany, 2007.

Regular courses

• (2013, 2023-2025) Professor of "Diseño y Análisis de Algoritmos" ("Design and Analysis of Algorithms"), undergraduate/graduate course at the Department of Computer Science, University of Chile. (WS2013, SS2023, WS2024, SS2024, and WS2025.)
• (2014-2022, 2024) Professor of "Introducción a la Programación" ("Introduction to Programming"), undergraduate course at the Department of Computer Science, University of Chile. (SS2014, SS2015, SS2016, SS2017, SS2018, SS2019, SS2020, SS2021, SS2022, and SS2024.)
• (2001-2002, 2007-2017, and 2020-2023) Professor of "Algoritmos y Estructuras de Datos'' ("Algorithms and Data Structures"), undergraduate course at the Department of Computer Science, University of Chile. (WS2001, SS2001, WS2002, SS2007, SS2008, SS2009, SS2010, SS2011, SS2012, SS2013, SS2014, SS2015, SS2016, SS2017, SS2020, SS2021, SS2022, and SS2023.)
• (2014-2023) Professor of "Visualización de Información" ("Information Visualization"), undergraduate course at the Department of Computer Science, University of Chile. (WS2014, WS2015, WS2016, WS2017, WS2018, WS2019, WS2020, WS2021, WS2022, and WS2023.)
• (2011-2013 and 2015) Professor of "Búsqueda por Contenido de Imágenes y Videos" ("Content-Based Image and Video Retrieval"), undergraduate course at the Department of Computer Science, University of Chile. (WS2011, SS2011, WS2012, SS2012, WS2013, and WS2015.)
• (2008-2013) Professor of "Computación I" ("Computer Science I"), undergraduate course at the Department of Computer Science, University of Chile. (WS2008, WS2009, WS2010, WS2011, WS2012, and WS2013.)
• (2013) Professor of "Diseño y Análisis de Algoritmos" ("Design and Analysis of Algorithms"), undergraduate/graduate course at the Department of Computer Science, University of Chile. (WS2013.)
• (2012) Professor of "Minería de Datos" ("Data Mining"), undergraduate/graduate course at the Department of Computer Science, University of Chile. (SS2012.)
• (2007-2012) Professor of "Bases de Datos Multimedia" ("Multimedia Databases"), undergraduate course at the Department of Computer Science, University of Chile. (WS2007, SS2007, SS2008, SS2009, WS2010, SS2011, and WS2012.)
• (2007-2010) Professor of "Seminario: Índices para Bases de Datos Multimedia" ("Seminar: Index Structures for Multimedia Databases"), undergraduate course at the Department of Computer Science, University of Chile. (WS2007, WS2008, WS2009, and WS2010.)
• (2004-2006) Teaching assistant of "Multimedia-Datenbanksysteme" ("Multimedia Databases"), undergraduate course at the Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Konstanz. (WS2004/2005 and WS2005/2006.)
• (2001) Professor of "Computación II" ("Computer Science II"), undergraduate course at the Department of Computer Science, University of Chile. (WS2001.)
• (1998-2000) Teaching assistant in several undergraduate courses at the Department of Computer Science, University of Chile: "Algoritmos y Estructuras de Datos" ("Algorithms and data structures") (SS2000); "Computación I" ("Computer science I"), (SS1998, WS1999, SS1999, WS2000, and SS2000).

Intensive courses

• (2012) "Multimedia Databases", graduate course given at the Facultad de Ingenieria de Produccion y Servicios, National University of San Agustin, Peru. Funded by Pablo Neruda Program.
• (2009) Talk "Similarity Search in Multimedia Databases", at the Jornadas Chilenas de Computación 2009 (JCC'09), as part of the Workshop "Emergent Topics on the Web" organized by the Center for Web Research.
• (2008) Talk "Multimedia Databases", given at the Faculty of Physic-Mathematics and Natural Sciences, National University of San Luis, Argentina, as part of the course "Algorithmic Foundations of the Web". Funded by Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional (AECI) A/8065/07.
• (2007) "Multimedia Databases", postgraduate course given at the Faculty of Physic-Mathematics and Natural Sciences, National University of San Luis, Argentina.
• (2007) Talk "Content-based Search in 3D Object Databases", given at the Department of Computer Science, University of Chile, as part of the Workshop "Emergent Topics on the Web" organized by the Millennium Nucleus Center for Web Research.

Distinctions

• (2021) Invited to present the article "An efficient algorithm for approximated self-similarity joins in metric spaces" at Lo Mejor de lo Nuestro 2021, Jornadas Chilenas de Computacion.
• (2020) Invited to present the article "A Multi-resolution Approximation for Time Series" at Lo Mejor de lo Nuestro 2020, Jornadas Chilenas de Computacion.
• (2018) Invited to present the article "IMGpedia: a Linked Dataset with Content-based Analysis from the Wikimedia Commons Images" at Lo Mejor de lo Nuestro 2018, Jornadas Chilenas de Computacion.
• (2014) Invited to present the article "A Fully Hierarchical Approach for Finding Correspondences in Non-rigid Shapes" at Lo Mejor de lo Nuestro 2014, Jornadas Chilenas de Computacion.
• (2013) Invited to present the article "On nonmetric similarity search problems in complex domains" at Lo Mejor de lo Nuestro 2013, Jornadas Chilenas de Computacion.
• (2011) Yahoo! Faculty Research and Engagement award in the form of an Unrestricted Gift (USD 10,000.00) for the Project "Exploiting visual-semantic graphs for Web image retrieval and automatic image tagging" (Yahoo! collaborator: Dr. Barbara Poblete).
• (2010) Distinguished Teaching Award 2010, given by the Department of Computer Science, University of Chile.
• (2010) Yahoo! Faculty Research and Engagement award in the form of an Unrestricted Gift (USD 10,000.00) for the Project "Web multimedia content" (Yahoo! collaborator: Dr. Barbara Poblete).
• (2007) Recipient of the annual award given by the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC) to the best performing Chilean researcher with a recent Ph.D. in Computer Science. The award included a plenary talk at Jornadas Chilenas de Computación (Chilean Congress of Computer Science) with the title "Efficient content search in multi-metric spaces".
• (2007) Selected for the "100 young Chilean leaders" article by Revista El Sábado, El Mercurio.
• (2003) Finalist (7th place) in the X CLEI-UNESCO Contest of Latin American Computer Science M.Sc. Theses (developed during 2002).
• (1997-2000) Distinguished student of the Department of Computer Science, University of Chile (top ten from an average of 200 students).
• (1996-2000) Distinguished student of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematical Sciences, University of Chile (best 6% of all students of the Faculty).