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Mauricio Alejandro Araya López

Assistant Professor

UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA

Valparaíso, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Data Science, Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning; Astroinformatics and Intelligent Astronomical Data Processing; Real-Time, Distributed and HPC Systems.

Educación

  •  Informatics Engineering, UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA. Chile, 2008
  •  Informatics, UNIVERSITY OF LORRAINE. Francia, 2013
  •  Informatics Civil Engineering, UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA. Chile, 2008

Experiencia Académica

  •   Young Researcher Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA

    Casa Central

    Valparaíso, Chile

    2013 - 2018

  •   ATER (teaching and research) Part Time

    UNIVERSITY OF LORRAINE

    IUT-Charlemagne

    Nancy, Francia

    2012 - 2013

  •   Academic Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA

    Casa Central

    Valparaíso, Chile

    2019 - A la fecha

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Part-Time Lecturer Part Time

    Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

    Valparaíso, Chile

    2008 - 2009

  •   Part-Time Lecturer Part Time

    Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

    Valparaíso, Chile

    2008 - 2008

  •   Part-Time Lecturer Part Time

    Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

    Valparaíso, Chile

    2014 - 2015

  •   Part-Time Lecturer Part Time

    Universidad Andres Bello

    Viña del Mar, Chile

    2018 - 2018

Formación de Capital Humano


- Germán Ortega (2016): Diploma Thesis UTFSM: “Visualización Volumétrica de Cubos Espectroscópicos”
- Andrés Riveros (2015-2016): Master Thesis PUC: “Automatic Identification of Spectral Lines Through Spectrum
Reconstruction”
- Humberto Farías (2016): Professional Master UTFSM: “Propuesta de implantación de Apache Spark para el
procesamiento de grandes volúmenes de datos en el observatorio virtual Chileno”
- Renato Sanhueza (2018): Diploma Thesis UTFSM: “A Modern Solution to the Problem of Distributed Object Control for ACS”
- Patricio Sard (2018): Diploma Thesis UTFSM: “Ingestión de Datos de Alto Nivel al Observatorio Virtual”
- Martín Villanueva (2018): Diploma Thesis UTFSM: “A Variational Approach for Astronomical Source
Representation and Description”
- Martín Villanueva (2019): Master Thesis UTFSM: “A Computational Framework for Structural Analysis of Astronomical Molecular Cloud”


Difusión y Transferencia


- “Astropartículas: Neutrinos, Rayos Gamma y Otros Mensajeros del Cosmos”. Claudio Dib and Mauricio Araya. Viernes de Cultura + Ciencia. Proyecto Asociativo Explora Valparaíso Museo Fonck, Viña del Mar, Chile (06/2016).
- Scientific committee for a National Astroinformatics Center to be built in Chile within the next years. This initiative is led by the Smart Industry division of CORFO and has direct funding of the Minister of Economy.


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Best Paper Award

    Association française pour l'intelligence artificielle

    Francia, 2011

    Best Paper Award.


 

Article (14)

Content-Based Medical Image Retrieval and Intelligent Interactive Visual Browser for Medical Education, Research and Care
Bio-Inspired Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Navigation of Artificial Agents
HDMClouds: a hierarchical decomposition of molecular clouds based on Gaussian mixtures
Designing and prototyping the control system for the cherenkov telescope array.
JOVIAL: Notebook-based astronomical data analysis in the cloud
Unsupervised learning of structure in spectroscopic cubes
Indexing data cubes for content-based searches in radio astronomy
A brief survey on the Virtual Observatory
Active learning of MDP models
Near-optimal BRL using optimistic local transitions
A closer look at MOMDPs
A POMDP extension with belief-dependent rewards
Combining a probabilistic sampling technique and simple heuristics to solve the dynamic path planning problem
An amateur telescope control system: Towards a generic telescope control model

ConferencePaper (18)

A new content-based image retrieval system for SARS-CoV-2 computer-aided diagnosis
Mixed membership models for source separation of spectral lines
Multiresolution and Hierarchical Analysis of Astronomical Spectroscopic Cubes using 3D Discrete Wavelet Transform
JOVIAL: Jupyter Override for Astronomical Libraries
Scaling Up Data Cube Indexing Services for Content-based Searches in the Chilean Virtual Observatory
The chivo library: advanced computational methods for astronomy
Cloud services on an astronomy data center
Chilean virtual observatory
Evaluating a NoSQL Alternative for Chilean Virtual Observatory Services
Exorcising the Ghost in the Machine: Synthetic Spectral Data Cubes for Assessing Big Data Algorithms
Open Skies with Cloud Computing
Chilean Virtual Observatory services implementation for the ALMA public data
A Greedy Approximation of Bayesian Reinforcement Learning with Probably Optimistic Transition Model
Integrating a university team in the ALMA software development process: A successful model for distributed collaborations
Docker-based implementation for an astronomical data analysis cloud serviceDocker-based implementation for an astronomical data analysis cloud service
Packaging and high availability for distributed control systems
Towards large-scale RoI indexing for content-aware data discovery
Wrapping and deploying legacy astronomical code into python environments: An applied case study

Proyecto (19)

A new machine learning approach for CTA particle shower reconstruction
Open Data Center Services for Chilean Astronomy: Cloud Computing.
Open Data Center Services for Chilean Astronomy=> Cloud Computing
Strengthening Governance Capacity for Smart Sustainable Cities.
China-Chile Astronomical Datacenter (Chi2AD)
Implementación de Herramientas y Procesos del Observatorio Virtual Chileno
Implementation of Tools and Processes for the Chilean Virtual Observatory.
Open Data Center Services for Chilean Astronomy: Data Ingestion and Curation
Open Data Center Services for Chilean Astronomy=> Data Ingestion and Curation
CONSOLIDACION DEL AREA DE ASTROINFORMATICA EN INVESTIGACION Y DOCENCIA
Centro Avanzado de Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica
Consolidación del Área de Astroinformática en Investigación y Docencia
Doctorado=> Near-Optimal Algorithms for Sequential Information-Gathering Decision Problems.
Master 2 de Investigación y Doctorado
Centro científico tecnológico de Valparaíso
Analysis of Alternate Realtime Platforms for ACS
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FOR ALMA=> BUILDING UP EXPERTISE TO MEET ALMA SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS WITHIN A CHILEAN UNIVERSITY
Centro Avanzado de Ingenieria Electrica y Electronica.
Centro Cientifico Tecnologico de Valparaiso
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