Operations research, mixed-integer programming, non-linear optimization, polynomial optimization, mining operations scheduling, power systems operations

Undergraduate thesis direction:

- Diego Valdés, Computational Engineering, Universidad de O'Higgins. Graduation year: 2023. Title: "Desarrollo frontend móvil de GeoBuscador: Aplicación para el estudio de rocas y minerales"
- Orlando Cavieres, Computational Engineering, Universidad de O'Higgins. Graduation year: 2023. Title: "Desarrollo Backend de aplicación móvil/web de rocas y minerales: GeoBuscador"
- Alvaro Morales, Computational Engineering, Universidad de Chile. Graduation year: 2025. Title: "Desarrollo de videojuego educativo de optimización avanzada – The Cutting Plane Game v2"

Master's thesis direction:

- Fabián Badilla, Engineering Sciences, Universidad de Chile. Graduation year: 2023. Title: "Técnicas de Optimización Discreta para Compresión de Redes Neuronales"
- Pablo Carrasco, Engineering Sciences, Universidad de O'Higgins. Graduation year: 2024. Title: "Relajaciones convexas para redes neuronales con activaciones suaves"
- Sophia Calderón, Engineering Sciences, Universidad de O'Higgins. Graduation year: 2024. Title: "Optimización binivel pesimista en modelos de predicción"

2018:

Selected talk in "Combinatorial Optimization Workshop 2018" 08/01/18 - 12/01/18 (Aussois, France)
Invited talk at "Informs Optimization Society" Meeting 23/03/18 - 25/03/18 (Denver, USA)
Invited talk at "Discrete Optimization" workshop 24/04/18 - 26/04/18 (Tel-Aviv, Israel)
Invited talk at COSMO Lab Seminar, McGill University 16/05/18 (Montréal, Canada)
Invited talk at "23rd International Symposium on Mathematical Programming" 01/07/18 - 06/07/18 (Bordeaux, France)
Invited talk at "Discrete Optimization and Machine Learning" workshop 22/07/18 - 26/07/18 (Tokyo, Japan)
Invited talk at INFORMS Annual Meeting 4/11/18 - 7/11/18 (Phoenix, USA)

2019:

Selected talk in "Combinatorial Optimization Workshop 2019" 07/01/19 - 11/01/19 (Aussois, France)
Invited tutorial "Discrete Optimization in Operations Research" for MILA (Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms) 06/02/19 (Montréal, Québec, Canada)
Academic visit and invited talk for Zuse Institute Berlin 17/02/19 - 06/03/19 (Berlín, Germany)
Selected talk at "International Conference on Integer Programming Combinatorial Optimization 2019" 22/05/19 - 24/05/19 (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA)
Invited talk at "Machine Learning in Science and Engineering Conference 2019" 10/06/19 - 12/06/19 (Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
Invited talk at "Mixed-Integer Programming Workshop 2019" 15/07/19 - 18/07/19 (MIT, Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
Co-organizer of "1st Discrete optimization day", Universidad de O'Higgins 23/09/19 (Rancagua, Chile)
Invited talk at INFORMS Annual Meeting 20/10/19 - 23/10/19 (Seattle, USA)

2020:

Selected talk in "Combinatorial Optimization Workshop 2020" 06/01/20 - 10/01/20 (Aussois, Francia)
Academic visit and invited talk for Zuse Institute Berlin 26/02/20 - 11/03/20 (Berlín, Germany)
Selected talk at "International Conference on Integer Programming Combinatorial Optimization 2020" 08/06/20 - 10/06/20 (Online)
Invited talk at "Algorithms, Graph, and Combinatorial Optimization" Seminar, University of Chile. 29/07/20 (Online)
Invited talk at "Coloquio Javierano de Matemáticas", Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia. 31/07/20 (Online)
Invited talk for Indutrial Engineering Department Seminar, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile. 30/09/20 (Online)
Invited talk for Mathematics Department Seminar, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile. 01/10/20 (Online)

2021:
Plenary talk in Imperial College London MINLP Virtual Workshop 2021, 28/06/21 - 29/06/21, UK (Online)
Invited talk at KTH Royal Institute of Technology Seminar, 22/10/21, Sweden (Online)
Invited talk at 2021 INFORMS Annual Meeting, 24/10/21 - 27/10/21, USA (Online)
Invited talk at Workshop in Optimization and Algorithms, 20/12/21 - 22/12/21, Chile
Invited talk at "Cutting plane workshop," 20/08/21, EEUU (Online)

2022: 
Invited talk at Mixed-Integer Programming Workshop 2022, 23/05/22 - 26/05/22, USA
Invited talk at CAIMS/SCMAI 2022, 13/06/22, Canada (Online)
Invited talk at Workshop on Data Science for Real-Time Decision Making, 16/08/22, Canada
Invited talk at Workshop in Optimization and Algorithms, 19/12/22 - 21/12/22, Chile

2023:
Invited talk at ICERM Workshop on Linear and Non-Linear Mixed Integer Optimization. 27/02/23 - 03/03/23, USA
Invited talk at IFORS 2023, 10/07/23 - 14/07/23, Chile
Selected talk at "International Conference on Integer Programming Combinatorial Optimization 2023" 21/06/23 - 23/06/23, USA
Invited talk at Industrial Engineering Department, Universidad de Chile, 16/05/23
Invited talk at AGCO Seminar, Universidad de Chile, 11/10/23

2024:
Distinguished invited talk at "Combinatorial Optimization Workshop." 08/01/24 - 12/01/24, France
Invited talk at "International Workshop in Bilevel Optimization." 22/01/24 - 26/01/24, Chile
Invited talk at "International Symposium of Mathematical Programming." 21/07/24 - 26/07/24, Canada
Invited talk at "Center for Applied Optimization," University of Florida. 16/10/24, USA
Invited talk at "ORIE Colloquium," Cornell University. 29/10/24, USA
Invited tutorial at "Workshop in Optimization and Algorithms." 05/12/24, Chile