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Margarita Paz Castro Anich
Assistant Professor
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Santiago, Chile
My research focuses on discrete optimization problems and the use of relaxed Decision Diagrams to solve them. I am also interested in Integer Programming, Stochastic Programming, Constraint Programming, AI applications (e.g., AI planning and neural
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Industrial Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO. Canada, 2020
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Industrial Engineering, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2014
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Ingeniero Civil de Industrias con Mención en Matemáticas, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE. Chile, 2012
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Profesor part-time Part Time
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
Ingeniería
Santiago, Chile
2014 - 2015
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Assistant Professor Full Time
PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DE CHILE
Ingeniería
Santiago, Chile
2021 - A la fecha
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First Prize, Student Paper Competition
Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS)
Canada, 2020
Each year CORS conducts a student paper competition to recognize the contribution of a paper either directly to the field of operational research through the development of methodology or to another field through the application of operational research. The competition serves to showcase the high quality of OR education in Canada as well as the excellence of the new generation of operational researchers. Prizes are awarded in two categories: Undergraduate and Open. Open Category First Prize: "A Combinatorial Cut-and-Lift Procedure with an Application to 0-1 Chance Constraints" Margarita Castro (University of Toronto)
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Runner-up, ICS Student Paper Award
INFORMS Computing Society (ICS)
Estados Unidos, 2020
The ICS Student Paper Award is given annually to the best paper at the interface of computing and operations research by a student author, as judged by the award selection committee. Runner up: Margarita Paz Castro for the paper: "A Combinatorial Cut-and-Lift Procedure with an Application to 0-1 Chance Constraints" by Castro, Cire, Beck, under review.
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Doctoral Research Award
Association for Constraint Programming (ACP)
Francia, 2021
First place in the ACP Doctoral Research Award.
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Margarita Castro
Assistant Professor
Ingeniería Industrial y de Sistemas
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Santiago, Chile
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Rodrigo Toro
Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Santiago, Chile
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Matias Negrete
Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Santiago, Chile