Contact Information:

EBU3B room 4142
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093
+ 1 858 539-6008
cgallegu@cse.ucsd.edu
http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~cgallegu

Education:

Ph.D. Program – University of California, San Diego September 2005 - Present
Computer Science Department

Master’s degree in Engineering – University of Chile August, 2005
Computer Science Department
”Information Extraction from the Web: Extraction and Identification of specific content in non-structured text.”
Advisors: Nello Cristianini, Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Bachelor’s degree – University of Chile March, 2004
Computer Science Department

HOnors, awards and fellowships :

Chilean Government and BID Internship Award, Silicon Valley Internship July 2003

research interests

Information Retrieval, Web mining, Machine Learning, Information Extraction, Human Computer
Interaction.

academic experience

University of California, Davis, Statistics Department
Junior Specialist October 2004 - July 2005
• Information extraction from the World Wide Web using machine learning and applied statistics.
• Extracting specific fields from unstructured text.

University of Chile, Center for Web Research (www.ciw.cl)
Research Assistant March 2004 - December 2004
• Analysis of relations between users’ queries and selected Chilean websites, for the TodoCL
search engine.
• Web usage mining from TodoCl search engine logs.

University of Chile, Computer Science Department
Research Assistant December 2002 - January 2003
• Assistant of Professor Nancy Hitschfeld (Ph.D. in Computer Science, ETH Zurich).
• Research on performance of Triangle and Lepp (2D mesh generator software packages).
• Research on restrictions of the minimum angle in the Delanuay Triangulation.

University of Chile, Computer Science Department
Data Bases Teacher Assistant Fall 2003

University of Chile, Math Department
Math Teacher Assistant Summer 2002
Summer School, University of Chile, Engineering and Sciences School

Differential Equations Teacher Assistant Fall 2001

Math Teacher Assistant Summer 2001
Summer School, University of Chile, Engineering and Sciences School

University of Chile, Physics Department
Physics Lab Assistant Fall 2001

industrial experience

VIVO POSITIVO, Santiago, Chile (National HIV/AIDS Coordinator)
Programmer and Webmaster March 2002 - Present
• Designed and developed website for the institution -www.vivopositivo.org.
• Programmed functionalities in PHP, JavaScript and HTML.
• Designed graphic user interface and generated flash animations.

Entegris Inc., San Jose, California, USA
Developer of Web Applications July 2003 - December 2003
• Improved and restructured Entegris Life Sciences website -www.entegrislifesciences.com.
• Analyzed and improved efficiency of e-business system for Life Sciences products.

University of Chile, Engineering and Sciences School, Santiago, Chile
Programmer and Developer of Web Applications September 2002 - March 2004
• Design and development of web application U-Cursos - http://escuela.ing.uchile.cl/ucursos.

Publications:

R. Baeza, C. Galleguillos.”Analisis de Consultas a un Buscador de laWeb Chilena” (Query Analysis
of a Chilean Web Search Engine), XII-th Chilean Conference of Computer Science, Arica, Chile,
2004.

Languages:

Native Spanish, fluently written and oral English.