
Nancy Viola Hitschfeld Kahler
Full Professor
UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE , DEPTO CIENCIAS COMPUTACION
Santiago, Chile
Geometric modeling; Mesh generation techniques; Object oriented development; GPU computing; Computational science and engineering, computer science ducation
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Technischen Wissenschaften, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-Zurich. Suiza, 1993
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Ciencias de la Computación, Universidad de Chile. Chile, 1987
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Full professor Full Time
Universidad de Chile
Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas
Santiago, Chile
2022 - A la fecha
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Assistant Professor Full Time
UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE
Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas
Santiago, Chile
1993 - 2004
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Invited researcher (post-doc) Full Time
SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY-ZURICH
Integrated Systems Institute
Zurich, Suiza
2000 - 2001
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associate professor Full Time
UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE
Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas y Matematicas
Santiago, Chile
2005 - 2021
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Coordinator of the Master in Computer Science Full Time
Universidad de Chile
Santiago, Chile
2014 - A la fecha
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Head of the Departament of Computer Science Full Time
Unversidad de Chile
Santiago, Chile
2009 - 2010
Current PhD Students: 1
Current master Students: 4
Current undergraduate students: 4
Graduated students from 2007:
PhD Students: 5
Master students: 11
Engineering students: 34
Nancy Hitschfeld, Francisco Gutierrez, Vanessa Peña, Jorge Romo. Desarrollando el Pensamiento Computacional: acercando la computación a niñas y niños de Chile. Bits de Ciencia No 12, 34-39. Primer Semestre 2015.
Nancy Hitschfeld, Jorge Perez, Jocelyn Simmonds. Pensamiento Computacional y Programación a nivel escolar en Chile: El valor de formar a los innovadores tecnológicos del futuro. Bits de Ciencia No 12, 18-33. Primer Semestre 2015.
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Best Nvidia paper award
11th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications
Francia, 2014
The paper "GPU maps for the space of computation in triangular domain problems" was selected as the best Nvidia paper award and got as a prize a Tesla TK 40
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The Ron Halmshaw Award 2006
Insight journal
Reino Unido, 2006
The best journal paper published during the year 2005. Shared with Domingo Mery and Dennis Hahn.
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NVidia Gpu Research Center 2016
NViidia Coorporation
Estados Unidos, 2016
Recognition as Research Center. Shared with Cristobal Navarro.
Techniques for the generation of 3D finite element meshes of human organs |
Improving algorithms for the generation of polygonal and polyhedral meshes |
Evaluación de Recursos Geológicos en Geometrías Complejas |
IMAGE PROCESSING AND PHYSICAL MODELS FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF CELL MIGRATION WITH 4-LENS LIGHT SHEET FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY |
MCC=> Multimodal Communication Corpus |
Dynamic selection of classifiers with application in real time environments |
FAST COMPUTATIONAL SCHEMES FOR THE ANALYSIS OF MORPHO-TOPOLOGICAL DATA FROM HIGH THROUGHPUT MICROSCOPY |
Improving the functionality and performance of meshing tools |
Testing nature's fundamental theories by new cosmological and astrophysical observations |
Bavi=> Bio-inspired Audio Visual Information Integration |
PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS FOR 3D PHOTON DENOISING, OPTICAL FLOW AND ADJACENT ACTIVE SURFACE MODELS FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT IN VIVO SPINNING DISK MICROSCOPY |
MIXED-ELEMENT MESH GENERATION FOR MOVING BOUNDARY APPLICATIONS. |
MESH GENERATION ALGORITHMS FOR COMPLEX APPLICATIONS |
MESH GENERATION FOR COMPLEX GEOMETRIES USING A SET OF WELL-SHAPED |
BASES DE DATOS DE TEXTO => ALGORITMOS, INTERFASES Y APLICACIONES |
A Survey on Parallel Computing and its Applications in Data-Parallel Problems Using GPU Architectures |

Nancy Hitschfeld
Full Professor
Computer Science
UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE , DEPTO CIENCIAS COMPUTACION
Santiago, Chile

Maria Bastarrica
profesora asociada
DEPTO. DE CIENCIAS DE LA COMPUTACIÓN, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE
Santiago, Chile

Claudio Lobos
Profesor Auxiliar
Informática
UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARÍA
Santiago, Chile

Jorge Gironás
Associate Professor
Department of Hydraulic and Environmental Engiineering
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE
Santiago, Chile

Mauricio Cerda
Assistant Professor (appointed)
Programa de Anatomía y Biología del Desarrollo
UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE
Santiago, Chile

Violeta Chang
Profesora asistente
Ingeniería Informática
Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Santiago, Chile

Fabrizio Canfora
Permanent Researcher
Theoretical Physics Laboratory
CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS CIENTIFICOS - CECs
Valdivia, Chile

Alejandro Ortiz
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, University of Chile
Santiago, Chile

Christopher Haines
Assistant Professor
Instituto de Astronomía y Ciencias Planetarias
Universidad de Atacama
Copiapó, Chile

Francisco de la Barrera
Profesor asociado
Planificación Territorial y Sistemas Urbanos
Universidad de Concepción
Concepción, Chile

SONIA REYES
Profesora Asistente
Ecosistemas y Medio Ambiente
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
SANTIAGO, Chile

Rodrigo Soto
Full professor
Physics
DEPARTAMENTO DE FISICA, FCFM, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE
Santiago, Chile

Matthieu Vernier
Assistant Professor / Profesor Auxiliar (Categoria III)
UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE
Chile

Karina Palma
Postdoctorado
Instituto de Neurociencia Biomédica BNI
Universidad de Chile
Santiago, Chile

Guillermo Cabrera
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Universidad de Concepción
Concepción, Chile

Eliana Scheihing
Profesora Titular, Directora Magíster en Informática
Universidad Austral de Chile
Valdivia, Chile

Jocelyn Simmonds
Profesor Asistente
Departamento de Ciencias de la Computacion
Universidad de Chile
Santiago, Chile

Ivan Sipiran
Profesor Asistente
Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación
Universidad de Chile
Santiago, Chile

Francisca Valdés
Asistente de investigación
Facultad de Medicina
Universidad de Chile
Santiago, Chile

Simon Casassus
Profesor Titular
Astronomía
DEPARTAMENTO DE ASTRONOMÍA, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE
Santiago, Chile