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Margarita Paz Castro Anich

Assistant Professor

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


My research focuses on discrete optimization problems and the use of relaxed Decision Diagrams to solve them. I am also interested in Integer Programming, Stochastic Programming, Constraint Programming, AI applications (e.g., AI planning and neural

Educación

  •  Industrial Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO. Canada, 2020
  •  Industrial Engineering, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2014
  •  Ingeniero Civil de Industrias con Mención en Matemáticas, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2012

Experiencia Académica

  •   Profesor part-time Part Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Ingeniería

    Santiago, Chile

    2014 - 2015

  •   Assistant Professor Full Time

    PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE

    Ingeniería

    Santiago, Chile

    2021 - At present

Premios y Distinciones

  •   First Prize, Student Paper Competition

    Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS)

    Canada, 2020

    Each year CORS conducts a student paper competition to recognize the contribution of a paper either directly to the field of operational research through the development of methodology or to another field through the application of operational research. The competition serves to showcase the high quality of OR education in Canada as well as the excellence of the new generation of operational researchers. Prizes are awarded in two categories: Undergraduate and Open. Open Category First Prize: "A Combinatorial Cut-and-Lift Procedure with an Application to 0-1 Chance Constraints" Margarita Castro (University of Toronto)

  •   Runner-up, ICS Student Paper Award

    INFORMS Computing Society (ICS)

    Estados Unidos, 2020

    The ICS Student Paper Award is given annually to the best paper at the interface of computing and operations research by a student author, as judged by the award selection committee. Runner up: Margarita Paz Castro for the paper: "A Combinatorial Cut-and-Lift Procedure with an Application to 0-1 Chance Constraints" by Castro, Cire, Beck, under review.

  •   Doctoral Research Award

    Association for Constraint Programming (ACP)

    Francia, 2021

    First place in the ACP Doctoral Research Award.


 

Article (10)

Optimal cleaning scheduling for large photovoltaic portfolios

Astete, Ivan; Castro, Margarita; Lorca, Alvaro; Negrete-Pincetic, Matias

Article ISI
APPLIED ENERGY  (2024)

Learning reward machines: A study in partially observable reinforcement learning 

Icarte, Rodrigo Toro; Klassen, Toryn Q.; Valenzano, Richard; Castro, Margarita P.; Waldie, Ethan; Mcilraith, Sheila A.

Article ISI
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE  (2023)

Optimization-based expansion planning for power and hydrogen systems with feedback from a unit commitment model

Maulen, Lucas; Castro, Margarita; Lorca, Alvaro; Negrete-Pincetic, Matias

Article ISI
APPLIED ENERGY  (2023)

Decision Diagrams for Discrete Optimization: A Survey of Recent Advances

Castro, Margarita P.; Cire, Andre A.; Beck, J. Christopher

Article ISI
INFORMS JOURNAL ON COMPUTING  (2022)

The LM-Cut Heuristic Family for Optimal Numeric Planning with Simple Conditions

Kuroiwa, Ryo; Shleyfman, Alexander; Piacentini, Chiara; Castro, Margarita P.; Beck, J. Christopher

Article
JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH  (2022)

A combinatorial cut-and-lift procedure with an application to 0-1 second-order conic programming

Castro, Margarita P.; Cire, Andre A.; Beck, J. Christopher

Article ISI
MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING  (2021)

An MDD-Based Lagrangian Approach to the Multicommodity Pickup-and-Delivery TSP

Castro, Margarita P.; Cire, Andre A.; Beck, J. Christopher

Article ISI
INFORMS JOURNAL ON COMPUTING  (2020)

Solving Delete Free Planning with Relaxed Decision Diagram Based Heuristics

Castro, Margarita P.; Piacentini, Chiara; Cire, Andre A.; Beck, J. Christopher

Article ISI
JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH  (2020)

Training Binarized Neural Networks Using MIP and CP

Icarte, Rodrigo Toro; Illanes, Leon; Castro, Margarita P.; Cire, Andre A.; McIlraith, Sheila A.; Beck, J. Christopher; Schiex, T; DeGivry, S

Article ISI
BIO-INSPIRED SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS: FROM ROBOTICS TO AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE, PT II  (2019)

Intruder alert! Optimization models for solving the mobile robot graph-clear problem

Morin, Michael; Castro, Margarita P.; Booth, Kyle E. C.; Tran, Tony T.; Liu, Chang; Beck, J. Christopher

Article ISI
CONSTRAINTS  (2018)

ConferencePaper (6)

LM-cut and Operator Counting Heuristics for Optimal Numeric Planning with Simple Conditions

Kuroiwa, Ryo; Shleyfman, Alexander; Piacentini, Chiara; Castro, Margarita; Beck, J. Christopher

ConferencePaper
 (2021)

Empirical Confidence Models for Supervised Machine Learning

Castro, Margarita P.; Sellmann, Meinolf; Yang, Zhaoyuan; Virani, Nurali

ConferencePaper
 (2020)

Learning Reward Machines for Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning

Toro Icarte, Rodrigo; Waldie, Ethan; Klassen, Toryn; Valenzano, Rick; Castro, Margarita P.; McIlraith, Sheila

ConferencePaper
 (2019)

Relaxed BDDs: An Admissible Heuristic for Delete-Free Planning Based on a Discrete Relaxation

Castro, Margarita P.; Piacentini, Chiara; Cire, Andre A.; Beck, J. Christopher

ConferencePaper
 (2019)

Compiling Optimal Numeric Planning to Mixed Integer Linear Programming

Piacentini, Chiara; Castro, Margarita P.; Cire, Andre A.; Beck, J. Christopher Beck

ConferencePaper
 (2018)

Linear and Integer Programming-Based Heuristics for Cost-Optimal Numeric Planning

Chiara Piacentini; Castro, Margarita P.; Cire, Andre A.; Beck, J. Christopher

ConferencePaper
 (2018)

Proyecto (4)

PLASMA: Plataforma Analítica en Sistemas para Mantenimiento

Mac Cawley, Alejandro Francisco; Carrasco, R. A.; Cho, Anthony D.; Ruz, Gonzalo; Castro, Margarita P.

Proyecto
 (2024)

LEVERAGING DECISION DIAGRAMS ON STOCHASTIC AND NON-LINEAR MIXED-INTEGER PROGRAMMING

Castro, Margarita P.

Proyecto
 (2023)

Centro Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial

Soto, Alvaro

Proyecto
 (2022)

Desarrollo de una plataforma de análisis integrado para la planificación estratégica de largo plazo del Sistema Eléctrico Nacional que considera el impacto del cambio climático y la evolución de variables disruptivas como la electromovilidad, el almacenamiento, la generación distribuida de energías renovables y la producción de hidrógeno verde

Sauma, Enzo; Vera, Sonia; Manriquez, Francisco; Pereira, Andrés.; Castro, Margarita P.; Jalil, Francisca

Proyecto El proyecto finaliza en diciembre de 2023
 (2022)

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Margarita Castro

Assistant Professor

Ingeniería Industrial y de Sistemas

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Rodrigo Toro

Assistant Professor

Computer Science

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Matias Negrete

Associate Professor

Electrical Engineering

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Santiago, Chile