 
Nancy Viola Hitschfeld Kahler
Full Professor
UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE , DEPTO CIENCIAS COMPUTACION
Santiago, Chile
Geometric modeling; Mesh generation techniques; Object oriented development; GPU computing; Computational science and engineering, computer science ducation
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Technischen Wissenschaften, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-Zurich. Suiza, 1993
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Ciencias de la Computación, Universidad de Chile. Chile, 1987
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Full professor Full TimeUniversidad de Chile Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas Santiago, Chile 2022 - At present 
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Assistant Professor Full TimeUNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas Santiago, Chile 1993 - 2004 
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Invited researcher (post-doc) Full TimeSWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY-ZURICH Integrated Systems Institute Zurich, Suiza 2000 - 2001 
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associate professor Full TimeUNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas y Matematicas Santiago, Chile 2005 - 2021 
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Coordinator of the Master in Computer Science Full TimeUniversidad de Chile Santiago, Chile 2014 - At present 
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Head of the Departament of Computer Science Full TimeUnversidad de Chile Santiago, Chile 2009 - 2010 
Current PhD Students: 1
Current master Students: 4
Current undergraduate students:  4
Graduated students from 2007:
PhD Students: 5
Master students: 11
Engineering students: 34
Nancy Hitschfeld, Francisco Gutierrez, Vanessa Peña, Jorge Romo. Desarrollando el Pensamiento Computacional: acercando la computación a niñas y niños de Chile. Bits de Ciencia No 12, 34-39. Primer Semestre 2015.
Nancy Hitschfeld, Jorge Perez, Jocelyn Simmonds. Pensamiento Computacional y Programación a nivel escolar en Chile: El valor de formar a los innovadores tecnológicos del futuro. Bits de Ciencia No 12, 18-33. Primer Semestre 2015.
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Best Nvidia paper award11th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications Francia, 2014 The paper "GPU maps for the space of computation in triangular domain problems" was selected as the best Nvidia paper award and got as a prize a Tesla TK 40 
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The Ron Halmshaw Award 2006Insight journal Reino Unido, 2006 The best journal paper published during the year 2005. Shared with Domingo Mery and Dennis Hahn. 
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NVidia Gpu Research Center 2016NViidia Coorporation Estados Unidos, 2016 Recognition as Research Center. Shared with Cristobal Navarro. 
| Techniques for the generation of 3D finite element meshes of human organs | 
| Improving algorithms for the generation of polygonal and polyhedral meshes | 
| Evaluación de Recursos Geológicos en Geometrías Complejas | 
| IMAGE PROCESSING AND PHYSICAL MODELS FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF CELL MIGRATION WITH 4-LENS LIGHT SHEET FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY | 
| MCC=> Multimodal Communication Corpus | 
| Dynamic selection of classifiers with application in real time environments | 
| FAST COMPUTATIONAL SCHEMES FOR THE ANALYSIS OF MORPHO-TOPOLOGICAL DATA FROM HIGH THROUGHPUT MICROSCOPY | 
| Improving the functionality and performance of meshing tools | 
| Testing nature's fundamental theories by new cosmological and astrophysical observations | 
| Bavi=> Bio-inspired Audio Visual Information Integration | 
| PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS FOR 3D PHOTON DENOISING, OPTICAL FLOW AND ADJACENT ACTIVE SURFACE MODELS FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT IN VIVO SPINNING DISK MICROSCOPY | 
| MIXED-ELEMENT MESH GENERATION FOR MOVING BOUNDARY APPLICATIONS. | 
| MESH GENERATION ALGORITHMS FOR COMPLEX APPLICATIONS | 
| MESH GENERATION FOR COMPLEX GEOMETRIES USING A SET OF WELL-SHAPED | 
| BASES DE DATOS DE TEXTO => ALGORITMOS, INTERFASES Y APLICACIONES | 
| A Survey on Parallel Computing and its Applications in Data-Parallel Problems Using GPU Architectures | 
 
María Bastarrica
profesora asociada
Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación
Universidad de Chile
Santiago, Chile
 
Nancy Hitschfeld
Full Professor
Computer Science
UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE , DEPTO CIENCIAS COMPUTACION
Santiago, Chile
 
Fabrizio Canfora
Permanent Researcher
Theoretical Physics Laboratory
CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS CIENTIFICOS - CECs
Valdivia, Chile
 
Rodrigo Soto
Full professor
Physics
DEPARTAMENTO DE FISICA, FCFM, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE
Santiago, Chile
 
Claudio Lobos
Profesor Auxiliar
Informática
UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARÍA
Santiago, Chile
 
Alejandro Ortiz
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, University of Chile
Santiago, Chile
 
Mauricio Cerda
Assistant Professor (appointed)
Programa de Anatomía y Biología del Desarrollo
UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE
Santiago, Chile
 
Simon Casassus
Profesor Titular
Astronomía
DEPARTAMENTO DE ASTRONOMÍA, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE
Santiago, Chile
 
Jorge Gironás
Associate Professor
Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Engiineering
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE
Santiago, Chile
 
Jocelyn Simmonds
Profesora Asociada
Departamento de Ciencias de la Computacion
Universidad de Chile
Santiago, Chile
 
Eliana Scheihing
Profesora Titular, Directora Magíster en Informática
Universidad Austral de Chile
Valdivia, Chile
 
Francisco de la Barrera
Profesor asociado
Planificación Territorial y Sistemas Urbanos
Universidad de Concepción
Concepción, Chile
 
Guillermo Cabrera
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Universidad de Concepción
Concepción, Chile
 
Violeta Chang
Profesora asistente
Ingeniería Informática
Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Santiago, Chile
 
Karina Palma
Postdoctorado
Instituto de Neurociencia Biomédica BNI
Universidad de Chile
Santiago, Chile
 
SONIA REYES
Profesora Asistente
Ecosistemas y Medio Ambiente
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
SANTIAGO, Chile
 
Matthieu Vernier
Assistant Professor / Profesor Auxiliar (Categoria III)
UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE
Chile
 
Christopher Haines
Assistant Professor
Instituto de Astronomía y Ciencias Planetarias
Universidad de Atacama
Copiapó, Chile
 
Ivan Sipiran
Profesor Asistente
Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación
Universidad de Chile
Santiago, Chile
 
Francisca Valdés
Asistente de investigación
Facultad de Medicina
Universidad de Chile
Santiago, Chile
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