Staff

Director

straight.lexidibowi.bar Enrique Jélvez
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Ph.D. in Mining Engineering, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Civil Engineer in Mathematics, UTFSM, Chile
Research area: Optimization, mine planning, development of models and algorithms for mining processes.

Researchers

match.rohelis.buzz Pierre Nancel-Penard
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Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Université Bordeaux I, France
Research area: Operations Research, Graph theory, heuristics and parallel computing.

Engineers

https://qonivare.bar/418-eerste-contact.php Nelson Espejo
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Civil Engineer(c) in Matematics, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
Development Engineer.
Interests: Discret event simulation and optimization.
DSim software developer.

José Pablo Espinoza
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Civil Engineer in Mining, UTFSM, Chile.
Research area: Simulation, automatization, advanced analytics, and underground mine planning.

Héctor Gonzalez
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Civil Engineer & M.Eng. in Mining, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
Research area: Simulation and planning of open-pit mining systems.

Diego Mancilla
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Civil Engineer & M.Sc. in Mathematics, UTFSM, Chile.
Interests: Linear, dynamic and stochastic programming, software development, scientific computing and spatial statistics.

Gerson Morales
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Computer Engineer, Universidad Central, Chile.
Interests: System administrator, software developer & engineer for VPR project.

Students

PHD

Luis Alvarez
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Civil Engineer in Mining, Universidad de Atacama, Chile.
PhD research: Optimization of preparation in short-term underground mining.

MASTER

Matías Caro
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Civil Engineer in Mining, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile.
Research area: Production planning and design of open-pit mines.

Mario Hinojosa
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Bachelor of Science (Geology), Universidad de Chile, Chile
Research area: Mine planning under geological uncertainty.

Daniel Mariño
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Mining Engineer, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Ecuador
Research area: Short-term open-pit mine production scheduling considering storage capacity.

Ninibeth Saavedra
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Civil Engineer in Mining, Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile.

Research area: Risk minimization of economic losses associated with the failure to meet the mining production plan.

Francisco Saavedra
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Civil Engineer in Mining, Universidad de Atacama, Chile.
Research area: Algorithms applied to the transportation system management (TSM) in underground mining.

Santiago Valencia
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Mining Engineer, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Ecuador
Research area: Short-term mine planning by considering equipment movement.

UNDERGRADUATES

Juan Escobar
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Research area: Improvement of ramp designs in open pit mining by implementing semi-automatic optimization models.

Joint work with Universidad de Talca.

Joaquín Silva
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Research area: Assessment of an optimization model to define an irrigation policy on a heap leaching operation.

Joint work with Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María.