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Awards & Fellowships

• Frontiers of Science Young Researcher. Chilean National Academy of Science (2007-2009)
• School of Engineering's Student Union Teaching award, 1998.
• Beca de Insersción de Cientificos Chilenos, Fundación Andes (Apr. 1996 - Mar. 1998).
  
• AT&T Bell Laboratories PhD Scholarship, AT&T (Sep. 1993 - Jan. 1996).
• Applied Mathematics Fellowship, Dept. of Mathematics, MIT (Fall 1992, Spring 1993).
• Marcos Orrego Puelma Award, 1992, Instituto de Ingenieros de Chile.
• Beca de Mérito, Depto. de Ingeniería Matemática, U. Chile (Sep. 1990 - Ago. 1991).
• Honorable Mention in the Venezuelan Mathematical Olympiad, 1982.
  

Grants (as PI)

• FONDECYT 1960849 (1996-1997): A computational complexity view of program testing, error-correcting codes, and proofs.
• CNRS-CONICYT International Cooperation Project, 1998.
• FONDECYT 1981182 (1998-2000): Codes, complexity, and testing.
• FONDECYT 1010689 (2001-2004): Codes, computational complexity, and cryptography.
• Millenium Nucleus (2003-2005): Information and Randomness.
• FONDECYT 1050710 (2005-2006): The computational "price" of the lack of resources in network protocols.
• Anillo ACT08 (2005-2008): Networks in mathematics and engineering sciences.
• Financiamiento Basal (2008-2013): Centro de Modelamiento Matemático