Operations Management; Supply Chain Management; Service Operations; Applied Econometrics

Main Advisor of Doctoral Students:
PhD in Decision, Risk and Operations, Columbia Business School
Yina Lu (2012)
Sang Won Kim (2012)

Doctorado en Sistemas de Ingenieria, U de Chile
Daniel Yung (2019)
Pablo Jofre (expected 2022)
Eduardo Lara (expected 2022)

Main advisor of Master students:
Magister en Gestion de Operaciones, U de Chile
Rodrigo Guerra (2019)
Joaquin Poblete (2022)
Simon Maturana (2021)
Rodrigo Arriagada D. (2018)
Pablo Jofré O. (2017)
Eyal Levy G. (2017)
Fernando Galdames P. (2015)

Main advisor, Industrial Engineering, U de Chile:
Javier Ferraz S. (2017)
Armin López B. (2015)
Nicolás Garcias C. (2014)
Loreto Elgueta E. (2013)

Competitive grants

Principal Investigator, Fondef Project ID19I10303 (2019-2021), “Desarrollo de un sistema
integrado de gestión de trasplantes basado en aprendizaje automático y diseño de mercado.”

Principal Investigator, Proyecto Evaluacion Impacto DIPRES (2019-2021), “Diseño y evaluacion de nudges para incentivar ahorro en las compras publicas.”

Principal Investigator, Fondecyt Project #1181201 (2019-2021), “Managing Capacity Utilization
in Service Platforms”.

Principal Investigator, Fondef Proyect # ID16I10122, “Platform design for the implementation of competitive framework agreements in public procurement”. (2016-2021)

Co-investigator, Fondecyt Project #1161333, “Econometric Models for Dynamic Labor Allocation Systems”. (2016-2019)

Principal Investigator, Fondef Project # IT13I20031, “Desarrollo de una herramienta para la evaluación económica de niveles de servicio al cliente en retail”. (2014-2016)

Principal Investigator, Columbia-Chile grant, "Public Procurement Mechanisms: From Practice to Research (and Back Again)", (2014)

Principal Investigator, Fondecyt, Project #1120898 “Measuring the Value of Customer Service in Retailing” (awarded by Conicyt, Chile, equivalent to NSF)

Co-principal Investigator, Fondef Project # IT17I0066 (2018-2020), “Desarrollo de una Plataforma Software-as-a-Service para Apoyar Decisiones de Dotación de Personal en Cadenas de Retail”.

CIBER/Chazen Research Grant (2010). "Measuring the performance of combinatorial auctions in school meal procurement"

Columbia Business School, Social Enterprise Center (2008-2009) "Designing procurement mechanisms for meal procurement for public schools in Chile"

The Wharton School, Baker Retailing Initiative (2006). "Estimation of the effect of out-of-stocks in supermarkets"

Public sector collaborations:

Poder Judicial de Chile. Labor allocation system for judges and supporting staff in Chilean courts. 2015-2017.

Fiscalia Nacional Economica. Advisor in economic analysis of antitrust cases,
Estimation of Damages for the “Toilet paper” collusion case in Chile (2016)
Estimation of overprices caused by a bidding ring of injectable Pharma products in Healthcare Public Procurement in Chile (2016-2018)

Servicio Nacional del Consumidor (Chile’s Bureau of Consumer Protection). Economic Report for the Estimation of Damages for the “Poultry” collusion case in Chile (2017).

Private sector:
Walmart Chile. Development of stock-out detection system based on transaction data. (2013-2014).

Banco Bci. Demand estimation and price optimization of consumer loans. (2017-2018)

Clinica Santa Maria. Analysis of surgery data to improve resource efficiency and identify best practices (2017-2018)