We work on open structure, in which researchers and engineers from various complementary fields (mathematics, computer science, engineering and others) converge in common projects.
Jorge Amaya, Head of LPLab, he is professor at the School of Engineering and associate researcher at the Center for Mathematical Modeling (CMM) of the University of Chile. He is Mathematical Engineer, University of Chile; Master in Mathematical Statistics, CIENES (Centro Interamericano de Enseñanza de Estadística, OEA); Master and PhD in Applied Sciences, Catholic University of Louvain. At CMM, he has conducted numerous research and development projects in the field of modeling and application of Mathematics to the industry. He has published 20 scientific publications in the fields of Applied Mathematics and Operations Research, two chapters in books, numerous consulting technical reports and more than 40 invited conferences in international congresses and seminars. From 2014, Jorge is also co-editor of TOP, the official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research. In the last years he has leaded more than 10 projects in applications of Mathematical Modeling to real world industrial problems, as for example, in mining, energy and production scheduling, among others sectors. Three of these projects, in the field of modeling for the rail transportation industry, have been developed in the context of European Framework Programs VI and VII, collaborating with European companies and universities.
Researchers and research engineers
Roberto Román, He is Mechanical Engineer, University of Chile and Post graduate studies in Solar Energy, Université de Provence, Marseille, France. Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Chile and Vice President for Membership Affairs, of the International Solar Energy Society (ISES). Some recent projects in which he have been involved are: FONDEF (Development of a Molecular Reactor for Energy Generation from Biomass at the small and medium scale level); MODURBAN (Modular Urban Guided Rail Systems, VI Framework Program, European Commission); CYTED (Iberoamerican Science and Technology Project); RISSPA (Iberoamerican Solar Drying Thematic Network); and CONICYT-EXPLORA Science and Education Projects 2000-2010. He published more than 15 Scientific Publications in the fields of energy and renewable energy research and he has been Editor of two books with the responsibility of one chapter in each. Coauthor of the book: ¿Se Necesitan Represas en la Patagonia? Ocho Libro Editores, 2009; over 30 presentations in International Congresses and Seminars, and numerous technical reports.
Jaime Ortega, Associated Professor at the Department of Mathematical Engineering and Associated Researcher at CMM at Universidad de Chile. Current director of the Modeling in Scientific Imaging and Visualization Laboratory (MOTIV) at CMM. He finished a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics in 1997, at the Department of Applied Mathematics of Universidad de Complutense de Madrid (Spain). He works mainly in partial differential, control theory, inverse problems and more recently in image processing. During his academic carrier he was involved in several projects (theoretical and applied) in different categories. During the last year I developed a network of collaboration with several researchers from different countries as Chile, Brazil, USA, England, Spain and France.
Pablo Orellana, Mechanical engineer with expertise in energy and thermal models for train transportation. He has been involved since 2012 as software developer in different research projects, mainly in the field of urban and interurban train transportation.
Paula Uribe, Electrical engineer, she works in the CMM since 2007 on several applied projects, mainly in the field of operations research. Namely, she has been involved in modeling and implementation for telecommunications, crew scheduling models, energy balance for train transportation, resources optimization, and facility location problems for school an educational planning, among others.
Colaborators
Takeshi Asahi, Electrical engineer and PhD in Sciences. As scientist at CMM, his specialty is the modeling and implementation of solutions for image reconstruction, with applications to medicine and enginnering.
Nelson Morales, Mathematical engineer with PhD in Computer Science. Since 2003, he has worked in modeling planning problems for the mining industry as well as the design and implementation of algorithms for their resolution. Nelson has participated into several projects, consulting and software development for different mine companies. He is currently the head of the DELPHOS Mine Planning Laboratory at the AMTC-Advanced Mining Technology Center of the University of Chile.
Engineering students:
Cecilia Julio (Mining Engineering), Mine planning.
Alvaro Guzmán (Electrical Engineering), Train traction systems.