Rodrigo Paredes is Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the Universidad de Talca. He earned his PhD in Computer Science in 2008 from the Universidad de Chile, where he also received a MSc degree in Computer Science and both Computer and Electrical Engineer degrees. In 2009, he was the recipient of the annual award "JCC Invited Talk" given by the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC) to the best performing Chilean researcher with a recent Ph.D. in Computer Science. Also, he obtained the 2nd prize in the 2003 CLEI-UNESCO Latin American Computer Science Master Theses Contest. He is the coach of the first Chilean team classified to the ACM-ICPC World Finals (2007). His main research interests are metric space indexing, graph algorithms, and experimental algorithms in general.