Probability and stochastic processes; Mathematical physics In particular, problems related to the KPZ universality class, integrable probability and interacting particle systems

Postdoctoral Fellows
• Jonas Arista 2020 – 2021 Postdoc at CMM, U. de Chile
• Gia Bao Nguyen 2014 – 2017 Núcleo Milenio SMCDS Postdoc at CMM, U. de Chile (currently researcher at KTH Stockholm)

PhD Students
• Yamit Yalanda 2020 – present (U. Chile)
• Amitai Linker 2014 – 2019 (U. Chile), currently postdoc at U. Cologne
Thesis: Contact process on envolving enviroments
• Nikolas Tapia 2014 – 2018 (Joint U. Chile - U. Paris VI, co-advised with L. Zambotti), currently researcher at TU Berlin
Thesis: Directed polymers and rough paths

Master Students
• Nicolás Zalduendo 2018 – 2019 Master in Applied Math, U. Chile
• Camila Brito 2014 – 2016 Master in Applied Math, co-advised with J. Fontbona, U. Chile
• Camilo Iturra 2014 – 2016 Master in Applied Math, U. Chile
• Felipe Muñoz 2014 – 2016 Master in Applied Math, U. Chile
• Luis Fredes 2014 – 2015 Master in Operations Research, U. Chile

TRANSFER ACTIVITIES
1. CMM-Data Group Director, Center for Mathematical Modeling, Universidad de Chile, Jul. 2018 – present
In charge of the creation and direction of a new strategic area at CMM devoted to data science and its applications, including projects in areas including retail, health, mining, manufacture, education.
2. NoiseGrasp cofounder, Director of Research 2014 – 2018, Scientific Advisor 2019 – present
A Chilean startup, created as a joint venture with CMM, focused on the development of a solution for marketing mix optimization modeling, with multiple clients in Chile, Latin America and the US

INVITED LECTURES AND MINICOURSES (selected)
• Pacific Rim Conference in Mathematics, Berkeley, California. Non-intersecting Brownian motions with outliers, KPZ fluctuations and random matrices (Aug. 2020)
• Random Media and Random Structures, Lima, Peru. KPZ and KP. (Jan. 2020)
• Workshop “Universality in Interacting Particle Systems”, U. Cologne, Germany. KP(Z) (Sep. 2019)
• SUMA 2019, Mendoza, Argentina, Plenary Lecture. The KPZ fixed point (Sep. 2019)
• Minicourse at conference “Random Physical Systems”, Puerto Natales, Chile. The KPZ fixed point (Dec. 2018).
• Minicourse at 2nd Workshop on Random Perturbed Systems, CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico. The KPZ fixed point (Nov. 2018)
• CIMPA School “Geometry and Scaling of Random Structures”, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The KPZ fixed point (Jul.2018)
• Minicourse at ICTS program “Universality in Random Structures: Matrices, Interfaces, Sandpiles”, Bangalore, India. The KPZ fixed point (Jan. 2019)
• Minicourse at LXXXVI Encuentro SOMACHI 2017, U. Talca, Chile. The KPZ fixed point (Nov. 2017)
• PCMI Research Program on Random Matrices, Park City, Utah. Extreme statistics of non-intersecting Brownian paths and LOE (Jul. 2017).
• SouthEastern Probability Conference, Duke U. The KPZ fixed point (May 2017)
• Minicourse at the Research School “Random Structures in Statistical Mechanics and Mathematical Physics”, CIRM, Marseille. The KPZ fixed point (Mar. 2017)
• CIMPA School “Random processes and optimal configurations in analysis”, Buenos Aires. bridges and the Laguerre Orthogonal Ensemble (Jul. 2015)
• 18th Brazilian School of Probability. Exact formulas for random growth off a flat interface (Aug. 2014)
• 37th Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Session on Stochastic Integrable Systems, Buenos Aires. Exact formulas for ASEP with periodic initial condition (Jul. 2014)
• Oberwolfach Workshop “Around the KPZ Universality Class”, Oberwolfach, Germany. Exact formulas for random growth off a flat interface (Jun. 2014)
• Workshop on Spatial Models of Micro and Macro Systems, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Columbus, Ohio. Voter model perturbations in two dimensions and the evolution of the dispersal distance (Apr. 2012)
• Workshop on Interacting Particle Systems, Growth Models and Random Matrices, University of Warwick. Variational problems for the Airy 2 process (Mar. 2012)
• Canadian Mathematical Society 2011 Winter Meeting. The endpoint distribution of directed polymers in 1+1 dimensions (Dec. 2011)
• Workshop on the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation and Universality Class, American Institute of Mathematics. Continuum statistics for the Airy 2 process (Oct. 2011)

EVENT ORGANIZATION
• Stochastic Interacting Systems Session at MCA 2021 Buenos Aires, Argentina (Jul. 2021)
• Stochastic Processes and Applications Session at CLAM 2020 Montevideo, Uruguay (Aug. 2020, postponed)
• Co-organizer of the Joint Santiago Probability Seminar (2014 – 2020)
• Probability Session at FLACAM 2019, Santiago, Chile (Nov. 2019)
• Random Physical Systems, Puerto Natales, Chile (Dec. 2018)
• Third Mini Summer School in Probability and Stochastic Processes, Santiago, Chile (Nov. 2019)
• Random Media in Atacama (in honor of Francis Comets on his 60th birthday), San Pedro de Atacama, Chile (Dec. 2016)
• Random Media Session at XIV CLAPEM San José, Costa Rica (Dec. 2016)
• Scientific Board Member, XX Brazilian School of Probability (Jul. 2016)
• Second Mini Summer School in Probability and Stochastic Processes, Santiago, Chile (Jan. 2016)
• Disordered Models of Mathematical Physics, a satellite conference of the 2015 International Congress of Mathematical Physics, Valparaíso, Chile (Jul. 2015)
• Mini Summer School in Probability and Stochastic Processes, Santiago, Chile (Jan. 2015)
• LXXXII Encuentro de la Sociedad de Matemática de Chile, Sesión de Probabilidades, Olmué, Chile (Nov. 2013)

RESEARCH VISITS (selected)
• Research Professor at MSRI Program "Universality and Integrability in Random Matrix Theory and Interacting Particle Systems", Berkely, Californa, USA (upcoming Sep.–Nov. 2021)
• U. Cologne, Germany (Sep. 2019)
• International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bangalore, India (Jan. 2019)
• Centro de Investigaciones Matemáticas (CIMAT), Guanajuato, Mexico (Nov. 2018)
• U. Buenos Aires, Argentina (Sep. 2016)
• U. of Toronto, Canada (Jul. 2015)
• Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, USA (Jan. 2014)
• U. of Toronto, Canada (Dic. 2012)
• MIT, Cambridge, Massachussets, EE.UU. (Dic. 2012)
• U. Montreal, Canada (Mar. 2012)
• MIT, Cambridge, Massachussets, EE.UU. (Feb. 2012)

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION PROJECTS
• MATH-AmSud Program "Random Structures and Processes in Statistical Mechanics" (Argentina-Brazil-Chile-France), member (2019-2020)
• MATH-AmSud Program "Large-scale behavior of stochastic systems" (Argentina-Brazil-Chile-France), member (2015-2018)