CV
Current Positions
Director
@Data Science Research Services (DSRS), Gies College of Business
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Director since 2021
2020 — present
Research Assistant Professor
@Department of Accountancy
@Department of Astronomy
@National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
2019 — present
Past Positions
Senior Research Scientist
@National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Senior since 2018
2014 — 2021
Adjunct Professor and Research Scientist
@Department of Physics and Engineering
Universidad Andres Bello, Chile
Teaching
2008 — 2010
LENAC/ALPHA visitor/fellow
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA)
2006
Education
Ph.D., Astrophysics
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
With Computational Science and Engineering graduate option
2010 — 2014
M.S., Astrophysics
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
2011
Ph.D. candidate, Astrophysics
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics / LMU Munich
Unfinished due to external non-academic reasons.
2006 — 2008
B.S., Astrophysics
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Summa Cum Laude
2001 — 2005
Selected Awards
Trusted CI Open Science Cybersecurity Fellowship
Trusted CI, NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
Inaugural fellow
2019
Outstanding Contribution Award
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
2015
Computational Science and Engineering Fellowship
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Grainger College of Engineering
2011 — 2013
Beca Chile (Declined in favor of other scholarship)
Government of Chile
Scholarship given by the Chilean government for abroad PhD studies
2009
International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) Fellowship
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
IMPRS PhD fellowship, Munich – Germany
2006 — 2008
Marie Curie Fellowship for Early Stage Research Training
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
2006
Languages
Spanish – Native
English – Professional level
German – Written (basic), spoken (intermediate level)
Skills
Programming Languages
Python, R, Go, Fortran, PL/SQL, C/C++, HTML/CSS, LaTeX, Shell, Javascript
HPC, DB, Clusters and containers
Oracle, MySQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, Neo4j, OPENMP, MPI, Spark, AWS, Docker, Ansible/Puppet , Kubernetes
Others
Machine Learning, Data mining , Data Management, Data visualization, Image processing, Map Reduce, Web components, Scientific applications, Cloud computing