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Marcos Kiwi received his Bachelor and Engineering degree from the University of Chile in 1990 and 1991 respectively, and his Ph.D. in Mathematics from MIT in 1996. Afterward he moved to the School of Engineering of the University of Chile where he is now Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematical Engineering and associate researcher at the Center for Mathematical Modelling.

Kiwi's research interests include computational complexity theory, algorithms, cryptography and discrete mathematics. He has served on numerous program committees for conferences in theoretical computer science, and was the program committee chair of the Latin American Theoretical Informatics Symposium (2006). Kiwi is Associate Editor of SIAM J. on Discrete Mathematics (since 2009) and Theoretical Computer Science A (since 2010). Kiwi is a recipient, among others, of the Marcos Orrego Puelma Award given by the Engineering Institute of Chile (1992), the AT&T Ph.D. Scholarship (1993-1996), chosen by the Chilean Academy of Sciences to be part of Frontiers of Science (2007-2009).

Kiwi has received four FONDECYT grants, and has led the group project Anillo en Redes (2006-2007). Also, he is currently the Chair of the Department of Mathematical Engineering of the University of Chile.

Kiwi was founding member and director of the Applied Cryptography and Security Laboratory (CASLAB) of the University of Chile, and is founding member of the Chilean Computer Emergency Response Team (CLCERT). In this latter role he has led the teams that drafted government regulation for the secure handling of electronic documents and also handling of spam by central government agencies.

Kiwi, his wife and two daughters live in Santiago.