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Carlos Emilio Contreras Bolton

Profesor Asistente

Universidad de Concepción

Concepción, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Operations Research, Combinatorial optimization, Evolutionary computing, Soft Computing

Educación

  •  Ph.D. in Biomedical, Electrical and System Engineering, UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI BOLOGNA. Italia, 2018
  •  M.Sc. in Computer Science Engineering, UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE. Chile, 2013
  •  B.Sc. in Computer Science, UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE. Chile, 2010
  •  Analyst in Scientific Computing, UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE. Chile, 2011

Experiencia Académica

  •   Investigador Postdoctoral Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE

    Facultad de Ingeniería

    Santiago, Chile

    2019 - 2020

  •   Profesor por hora Part Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE

    Facultad de Ingeniería

    Santiago, Chile

    2012 - 2015

  •   Profesor por hora Part Time

    UNIVERSIDAD ANDRES BELLO

    Facultad de Ingeniería

    Santiago, Chile

    2012 - 2015

  •   Profesor Asistente Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CONCEPCION

    Facultad de Ingeniería

    Concepción, Chile

    2020 - A la fecha

Formación de Capital Humano


- From 2020 to 2022, I have guided 6 final undergraduate works.
- From 2020 to 2022, I have guided 3 master's theses.


Premios y Distinciones

  •   PhD scholarship abroad - Beca Chile 2015

    COMISION NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACION CIENTIFICA Y TECNOLOGICA

    Chile, 2015

    Scholarship for studying the academic degree of Doctor of institutions of excellence abroad.

  •   Google Latin America Scholarship

    Google

    Estados Unidos, 2013

    Scholarships awarded based on the strength of academic background and demonstrated passion for Computer Science.


 

Article (16)

A matheuristic algorithm for the pollution and energy minimization traveling salesman problems

Escobar-Falcon, Luis Miguel

Article ISI
INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS IN OPERATIONAL RESEARCH  (2023)

A metaheuristic for the double traveling salesman problem with partial last-in-first-out loading constraints

Mardones, Blas

Article ISI
INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS IN OPERATIONAL RESEARCH  (2022)

Automatic Generation of Metaheuristic Algorithms

Iturra, Sergio; Parada, Victor

Article ISI
INTELLIGENT COMPUTING SYSTEMS (ISICS 2022)  (2022)

Low-Cost Voice Assistant Design and Testing for Older Adults

Farias-Barraza, Barbara; Reyes-Rogget, Marcelo; Lopez, Felipe A.; Linfati,Rodrigo; Saeed, K; Dvorsky, J

Article ISI
SOCIAL COMPUTING AND SOCIAL MEDIA: APPLICATIONS IN EDUCATION AND COMMERCE, SCSM 2022, PT II  (2022)

An effective two-level solution approach for the prize-collecting generalized minimum spanning tree problem by iterated local search

Parada, Victor

Article ISI
INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS IN OPERATIONAL RESEARCH  (2021)

Automatic design of specialized algorithms for the binary knapsack problem

Acevedo, Nicolas; Rey, Carlos; Parada, Victor

Article ISI SCOPUS
EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS  (2020)

Models and algorithms for the Traveling Salesman Problem with Time-dependent Service times



Article ISI
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH  (2020)

A biased-randomized heuristic for the waste collection problem in smart cities

Gruler A.

Article SCOPUS
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing  (2018)

A web application for location and vehicle routing in disaster

Venegas, Nicolas; Opazo, Omar; Linfati,Rodrigo; Willmer Escobar, John

Article WOS-ESCI
Iteckne  (2017)

Supporting multi-depot and stochastic waste collection management in clustered urban areas via simulation-optimization

Fikar, C.; Juan, A. A.; Hirsch, P.

Article ISI
JOURNAL OF SIMULATION  (2017)

A multi-operator genetic algorithm for the generalized minimum spanning tree problem

Contreras-Bolton, C; Gatica, G; Barra, CR; Parada V.

Article ISI SCOPUS
EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS  (2016)

A new genotype-phenotype genetic algorithm for the two-dimensional strip packing problem with rotation of 90° [Un nuevo algoritmo genético de genotipo-fenotipo para el problema de Strip Packing de dos dimensiones con rotación de 90°]



Article ISI SCOPUS
Javeriana  (2016)

Automatically Produced Algorithms for the Generalized Minimum Spanning Tree Problem

Rey, C; Ramos-Cossio S.; Rodriguez, C; Gatica, F.; Parada V.

Article ISI SCOPUS
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMING  (2016)

Automatic Combination of Operators in a Genetic Algorithm to Solve the Traveling Salesman Problem

Contreras-Bolton, C; Parada V.

Article ISI SCOPUS
PLOS ONE  (2015)

Automatically Generated Algorithms for the Vertex Coloring Problem

Bolton CC; Gatica, G; Parada V.

Article ISI SCOPUS
PLOS ONE  (2013)

Evolutionary optimization of electric power distribution using the dandelion code

Sabattin J.; Contreras-Bolton, C; Arias M.; Parada V.

Article SCOPUS
Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering  (2012)

ConferencePaper (3)

Novel Algorithms Automatically Generated for Optimization Problems

Silva-Munoz M; Semaan G.S.

ConferencePaper ISI SCOPUS
Proceedings - International Conference of the Chilean Computer Science Society, SCCC  (2019)

An Iterated Local Search Algorithm for the Pollution Traveling Salesman Problem

Linfati,Rodrigo

ConferencePaper
 (2018)

Automatic design of algorithms for optimization problems



ConferencePaper ISI SCOPUS
2015 Latin-America Congress on Computational Intelligence, LA-CCI 2015  (2016)

Proyecto (7)

Trajectory-based metaheuristic algorithms for new variants of the VRP

Linfati,Rodrigo

Proyecto
 (2023)

Generación automática de algoritmos metaheurísticos para variantes del problema del vendedor viajero



Proyecto
 (2020)

Beca Doctorado en el extranjero - Beca Chile 2015

PFCHA (72160389)

Proyecto
2015-2018
Inv. Responsable

Energy-Efficient and robust approaches for the scheduling of production, services, and urban transport

PCI (C13E04)

Proyecto
2013-2016
Tesista

Generación Automática de Estructuras Algorítmicas mediante la Heurística de Programación Genética, en una Máquina Optimizante de Arquitectura Paralela

Universidad de Santiago de CHile (61219-USACH)

Proyecto
2009-2011
Tesista

Instituto Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería

FONDAP (FB016)

Proyecto
2008-2018
Tesista

Instituto Milenio Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería

Ministerio de Economía (P-05-004-F)

Proyecto
2007-2017
Tesista

2
Rodrigo Linfati

Profesor Asociado

Universidad del Bio-Bio

Concepción, Chile

2
Gustavo Gatica

Profesor Investigador Asistente

Departamento de Ciencias de la Ingeniería

UNIVERSIDAD ANDRES BELLO

Santiago, Chile

8
Víctor Parada

Profesor Titular

Ingeniería Informática

Universidad de Santiago de Chile

Santiago, Chile

21
Carlos Contreras

Profesor Asistente

Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial

Universidad de Concepción

Concepción, Chile

1
marcelo reyes

secretario academico

Universidad Andrés Bello

viña del mar, Chile

1
Moises Silva