Team

  • José Miguel Piquer

    José M. Piquer is an Associated Professor of the Departement of Computer Science of the University of Chile, and Technical Director of NIC Chile. He obtained a Masters in Computer Science, from University of Chile in 1986, and a PhD from l'École Polytechnique de Paris (1991). He has authored more than 30 international publications in the fields of programming languages, distributed systems and advanced networks.

    Currently he directs NIC Chile's research laboratory (NIC Labs), where industrial cooperation projects are developed on advanced networks such as mobile multimedia, IPv6, IMS and sensor networks.

  • Tomás Barros

    Tomás Barros is a Civil Engineer in Computer Science from University of Chile Chile (2002) and PhD in Informatics from Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis (2005), performing his thesis at INRIA, France. He has studies at Waseda University, Tokyo (1998) and a research internship at NTT, Yokosuka (1999). He has participated in several innovative projects, among them he was consultant for the implementation of electronic invoice in Chile, in collaboration with CasLab - NIC Chile - SII; for this works performed in this project he received an award from the Chilean Engineer Institute. In 2006 he was professor of the Faculty of Engineering of the Diego Portales University, and since 2007 he is the acting Director y Manager of the NIC Chile's Research Laboratory (NIC Labs).

  • Mario Leyton

    Mario Leyton is a Researcher at NIC Labs. He has authored more than 10 international publications on scientific journals and conferences. He performed his PhD studies at INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France, with a scholarship co-financed by INRIA and CONICYT Chile; received a PhD degree from Universite de Nice-Sophia Antipolis in 2008; and a Computer Science Engineer degree, with maximum distinction, from University of Chile in 2005.

    Among others, he developed the first spanish speaking ccTLD adoption of Internationalized Domain Names (IDN): http://www.ñandú.cl/. He also was the main creator and developer of the ProActive Algorithmic Skeleton library: Calcium.

    His main research interest are in parallel/distributed computing. In particular, the field of structured parallel programming models.

  • Carlos Collao

    Carlos Collao is a Civil Engineer in Computer Science from the University of Chile who currently works as technology transfer project engineer. He has studies at the University of Wased, Tokyo, Japan. Over the years Carlos has worked in several research and technology transfer project at the University of Chile. Among them, Access Nova Incubation, Chile - Kore ITCC and e-learning projects. His areas of expertise include network security, network, e-learning, sensor networks, RFID and technological business viability analysis.

  • Victor Ramiro

    Victor received a Master in Computer Science degree and a Computer Science Engineer degree, both with maximum distinction, from University of Chile (2009). Currently he works as a research engineer at NIC Labs. His main interests are in project management and IT development. He is specially interested on technology transfer from academy to industry, and is concerned with effective and high impact IT transfers into Chilean development clusters. His research interests are on programming languages and their abstractions. His Master thesis was on the field of pervasive computing to define new abstractions for more expressive service discovery; he has designed and implemented (on the AmbientTalk language) an open proximity model for service discovery.

  • Daniel Romero

    Daniel Romero is a Civil Engineer in Informatics and Telecommunications from Diego Portales University (2009). Since 2005 he has participated in several software development projects and systems integration in the areas of medicine and mining. He has also been a professor at the Informatics Engineering Department of the Diego Portales University. His areas of interest are mobile telephony, multimedia, data networks, IMS networks.

  • Pablo Valenzuela

    Pablo Valenzuela is a Civil Engineer in Informatics from Diego Portales University (2008). In the year 2007 he performed an internship at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France, where he participated in the development of a tool for the formal specification of distributed components. His areas of interests are: web applications, development and software engineering, Eclipse/PDE.

  • Alvaro Neira

    Areas of interest: Audio transmission over 3G networks and mobile gadgets using Java.

  • Marcelo Valenzuela

    Areas of interest: Video transmission over 3G networks and mobile gadgets with Symbian.

Collaborators

  • Rodrigo Arenas

    Rodrigo Arenas is a network administrator at NIC Chile. His current responsibility is to maintain and improve the network infrastructure at NIC Chile on IPv4 and IPv6, along with the internal IP telephone system.

    He obtained a Civil Engineering Degree in Computer Science from University of Chile in 2005

  • Eduardo Mercader

    Eduardo Mercader, is the coordinator of the development and systems area at NIC Chile. He has more than 18 years of experience in the areas of network administration and systems, as well as the design, construction test, start up, and maintenance informatics systems. He has participated in diverse projects and consultancies for the Chilean Ministry of the Interior, the Administrative Corporation of the Judicial Power, Conaf, VTR, Enersis and ENTEL among others. He has also participated as a speaker in International Computer Network Seminars supported by UNESCO in Peru and Paraguay. Currently he is professor of the Network Communication Course at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Chile. He has given talks in the IPv6 Tour in September 2007, and has participated actively in the installation of the IPv6 network at NIC Chile.

  • Patricio Inostroza

    Dr. en Informatique, Université Joseph Fourier, France. (2002). Civil Engineer in Computer Science in 1994. Research interests: multimedia, distributed systems, technologies in Geometrical Meshes.




Former Members

  • Felipe Lalanne

    Areas of interest: Video transmission over 3G networks and mobile gadgets with java