Research team


Mauricio Marin Profile

Dr. Mauricio Marin is a full professor at the Informatics Engineering Department, University of Santiago, Chile, and a senior researcher at Yahoo! Labs Latinamerica hosted by the University of Chile. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from University of Oxford, UK, a MSc from University of Chile, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from University of Magallanes, Chile. His research work is on parallel computing and distributed systems with applications in Web search engines. He has obtained research grants on parallel query processing upon distributed metric-space databases and scalable parallel algorithms and data structures for text search and indexing.

Email
mauricio.marin@usach.cl
Address
Ecuador 3659, Estación Central, Santiago, Chile
Phone
+56 2 271 80941

Erika Rosas Profile

Dra. Erika Rosas, Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics Engineering at the University of Santiago, Chile. Ms. Rosas obtained her Ph.D degree in computer science in 2011 from Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris (Paris VI), France. She is a former postdoctoral researcher of Yahoo! Labs, Santiago, Chile. Her research areas cover stream data processing, mobile networks and large scale networks, such as P2P and social network, in areas like trust and reputation systems.

Email
erika.rosas@usach.cl
Address
Ecuador 3659, Estación Central, Santiago, Chile
Phone
+56 2 271 80925

Carolina Bonacic Profile

Dra. Carolina Bonacic, Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics Engineering at the University of Santiago, Chile; former posdoctoral researcher at Yahoo! Labs Latinamerica. Research areas: Information retrieval and Scalable Computing for Web Applications; Education: PhD in Computer Science from Complutense University of Madrid, Spain; Master of Computer Science from University of Chile, and Computing Engineer from University of Magallanes, Chile.

Email
carolina.bonacic@usach.cl
Address
Ecuador 3659, Estación Central, Santiago, Chile
Phone
+56 2 271 80919

Nicolas Hidalgo Profile

Dr. Nicolas Hidalgo, Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics Engineering at the University of Santiago, Chile. Mr. Hidalgo obtained his Ph.D degree in computer science in 2011 from the Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris VI), Paris, France. He is a former postdoctoral researcher of Yahoo! Labs Santiago. His research areas cover distributed systems, scalable systems, peer-to-peer networks, stream data processing and mobile networks such as MANETs and DTNs.

Email
nicolas.hidalgo@usach.cl
Address
Ecuador 3659, Estación Central, Santiago, Chile
Phone
+56 2 271 80929