Academic Positions

  • Adjunct Professor (HCI & Social Computing), University of Chile (since 2017).
  • Visiting Scholar, Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan (2014 - 2015).


    • Academic Background

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Chile (2012-2017).
  • M.Eng. (Diplôme d'Ingénieur), Major in Computer Science and Information Systems, École Centrale de Nantes (2012).
  • B.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Chile (2012).


    • Awards and Honors

  • ACM SIGCSE Travel Grant, awarded to attend and present at the SIGCSE'18 conference (2018).
  • Selected as one of Chile's top 100 Young Leaders (2017).
  • ACM SIGCHI Student Representative at the ACM A.M. Turing Award Celebration (2017).
  • ACM SIGCHI Student Travel Grant, awarded to attend and present at the CSCW'17 conference (2016).
  • ACM SIGCHI Gary Marsden Student Development Fund, awarded to attend the CHI'2016 conference (2016).
  • ACM SIGWEB Student Travel Award to attend the ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, HT'15 (2015).
  • ACM SIGCHI Travel Award to attend the CHI'2015 Doctoral Consortium (2015).
  • Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) Scholarship, awarded by the Government of Canada (2014).
  • CONICYT Ph.D. Scholarship, awarded by the Government of Chile to pursue a Ph.D. degree (2012).
  • Best Undergraduate Student in Computer Science Recognition, awarded by the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chile (2012).
  • Eiffel Excellence Scholarship, awarded by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to pursue a Master's Degree (Diplôme d'Ingénieur) in a French Grande École (2008).


    • Reviewing Experience

  • CHI Papers and Notes 2017
  • CSCW Papers 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018 (Associate Chair)
  • CHI Late-Breaking Work 2016, 2018 (Associate Chair)
  • SIGCSE Posters 2018
  • ITiCSE PC Member 2018
  • CRIWG PC Member 2017, 2018
  • UCAmI Track Chair 2017, 2018
  • Behaviour and Information Technology
  • Future Generation Computer Systems Journal
  • Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing
  • Journal of Universal Computer Science
  • Subreviewer: AAAI 2015, WWW WebSci track 2015, WSDM 2016


    • Industry Experience

  • Training of the IT staff at Banco Santander Chile in Programming (Python) and Statistical Data Analysis with R (2018).
  • Training of young programmers in Java and .NET at Accenture Chile (2017).
  • Design and development of social features to support online communities promoting mobile social learning: Parlez-vous chinois ? and Pairform, both available in the AppStore. Project conducted at the Centre d'Appui aux Pratiques d'Enseignement (CAPE) of École des Mines de Nantes, under the supervision of Christian COLIN (2010).


    • Teaching Experience

  • CC5510 - Interaction Design (Undergrad and Grad Students): Fall 2018 (Instructor)
  • CC79E - Seminar on IT Projects I (Grad Students): Fall 2018 (Instructor), Spring 2017 (Instructor)
  • CC79F - Seminar on IT Projects II (Grad Students): Fall 2018 (Instructor), Spring 2017 (Instructor)
  • CC73A - Advanced Topics in Software Engineering (Grad Students): Fall 2018 (Instructor), Fall 2017 (Instructor)
  • CC1000 - Computing Tools for Engineering and Sciences: Fall 2018 (Instructor)
  • CC1002 - Introduction to Programming: Spring 2017 (Instructor)
  • CC5402 - Software Project: Fall 2017 (TA), Spring 2016 (TA), Fall 2016 (TA), Spring 2015 (TA)
  • CC71Q - Introduction to Data Mining (Grad Students): Fall 2015 (TA)
  • CC5206 - Introduction to Data Mining: Fall 2015 (TA)
  • CC71T - Research Methods in Computer Science (Grad Students): Spring 2014 (TA)
  • CC6201 - Research Methods in Computer Science: Spring 2014 (TA)
  • CC5703 - Social Computing: Fall 2017 (TA), Fall 2014 (TA), Spring 2012 (TA), Spring 2011 (TA)
  • CC1001 - Introduction to Programming I: Fall 2013 (Instructor), Fall 2012 (TA), Fall 2011 (TA)
  • CC3001 - Algorithms and Data Structures: Spring 2012 (TA)
  • CC3002 - Introduction to Programming II: Fall 2012 (TA)


    • Academic Service

  • Founder and President of the ACM SIGCHI Santiago-Chile Chapter (2018)
  • Workshops on Developing Computational Thinking with Junior School Teachers. Department of Computer Science, University of Chile (2016 - 2018)
  • Workshops on Developing Computational Thinking with Junior School Students. Department of Computer Science, University of Chile (2012 - 2018)
  • Revision of CC1001 - Introduction to Programming. Department of Computer Science, University of Chile (2013 - 2014)
  • Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Member, Department of Computer Science, University of Chile (2012 - 2014, 2018)


    • Professional Memberships

  • ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI)
  • ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE)
  • Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • Sociedad Chilena de Ciencia de la Computación (SCCC)


    • Last updated: May 9, 2018