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Operations Research, Prescriptive Analytics, and Systems Engineering.

Our Research

What we do…

We are interested in harnessing the power of operations research, predictive analytics, and prescriptive analytics methodologies, to develop decision support tools for applied problems.

Currently, our research has focused on two main methodological areas:

Combinatorial algorithms
Stochastic optimization and Uncertainty modeling

We work in combining both areas, focused on applications, to make robust decision support systems. The applications we are looking into right now are energy management and astronomical observatory operations. They look far away from each other, but similar techniques can help significantly improve the processes if both settings. And both have large amounts of data that we can use to train, test, and validate our developments.

Look into our Projects section for more information on our current projects, and Contact us if you want to participate in some of them.

Research Team

Principal Investigator

Rodrigo A. Carrasco

Academic Director Master in Industrial Engineering / Assistant Professor

Combinatorial Algorithms, Algorithm Design & Analysis, Prescriptive Analytics

Researchers

Benjamín Bastidas

Research Engineer

Javiera Foucaut

Research Engineer

Grad Students

Helena García

MSc Student, Industrial Engineering

Combinatorial Problems, Machine Learning, Prescriptive Analytics

Anthony D. Cho Lo

PhD Student, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Machine learning, Prescriptive Analytics, Image processing

Alumni

Felipe Contreras

Ecomsur

Gianluca Baselli

LabLab

Magdalena Marín

Walmart Chile

Matías Lillo

Cencosud

Macarena Azar

LATAM Airlines

Featured Publications

Some of the recent publications we want to highlight.

Operating room scheduling under waiting time constraints: the Chilean GES plan

In 2000, Chile introduced profound health reforms to achieve a more equitable and fairer system (GES plan). The reforms established a …

Javiera Barrera, Rodrigo A. Carrasco, Susana Mondschein, Gianpiero Canessa, David Rojas-Zalazar

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Real-time fleet management decision support system with security constraints

Intelligent transportation, and in particular, fleet management, has been a forefront concern for a plethora of industries. This …

Javiera Barrera, Rodrigo A. Carrasco, Eduardo Moreno

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Optimal decisions for salvage logging after wildfires

Strategic, tactical, and operational harvesting plans for the forestry and logging industry have been widely studied for more than 60 …

Gianluca Baselli, Felipe Contreras, Matías Lillo, Magdalena Marin, Rodrigo A. Carrasco

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Resource cost aware scheduling

We are interested in the scheduling problem where there are several different resources that determine the speed at which a job runs …

Rodrigo A. Carrasco, Garud Iyengar, Clifford Stein

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ALMA engineering fault detection framework

The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) Observatory, with its 66 individual radiotelescopes and other central …

José L. Ortiz, Rodrigo A. Carrasco

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The online set aggregation problem

We introduce the online Set Aggregation Problem, which is a natural generalization of the Multi-Level Aggregation Problem, which in …

Rodrigo A. Carrasco, Kirk Pruhs, Clifford Stein, José Verschae

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Projects

Current applied research projects

One of our aims is to connect theory and practice in our research. These are the current projects in which we are involved, and that allows us to connect the two.

In these projects, we are using combinatorial optimization and stochastic modeling techniques to develop decision support tools in various settings.

Optimal Energy Storage Management

We are combining machine learning and stochastic optimization tools to develop optimal energy management systems for fotovoltaic generation with storage.

Predictive Maintenance

Developing tools for fault detection and diagnosis, in order to construct predictive maintenance systems.

Operations Research Tools for Observatory Operations

Using operations research methodologies, we are developing new tools for observatory operations.

Publications

All of our publications, easy to sort and cite.

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Javiera Barrera, Rodrigo A. Carrasco, Susana Mondschein, Gianpiero Canessa, David Rojas-Zalazar (2020). Operating room scheduling under waiting time constraints: the Chilean GES plan. Annals of Operations Research.

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Javiera Barrera, Rodrigo A. Carrasco, Eduardo Moreno (2020). Real-time fleet management decision support system with security constraints. TOP.

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Gianluca Baselli, Felipe Contreras, Matías Lillo, Magdalena Marin, Rodrigo A. Carrasco (2019). Optimal decisions for salvage logging after wildfires. Omega.

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Ignacio Toledo, Sergio Martin, Rodrigo A. Carrasco, J. C. Ferrer, J. Avarias, M. D. Trigo, A. Hoffstadt, A. Tejeda (2019). Astronomical Scheduling in the Era of Big Observatories. Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXVII.

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Rodrigo A Carrasco, Ioannis Akrotirianakis, Amit Chakraborty (2019). Demand shaping in an electrical power grid. EP2965282B1.

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Rodrigo A. Carrasco (2019). Equipo, sistema y método para administrar óptimamente la energía en una red de uso domiciliario e industrial. CL00938-2019.

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Gianluca Baselli, Felipe Contreras, Matías Lillo, Magdalena Marin, Rodrigo A. Carrasco (2019). Salvage logging: harvest scheduling and personnel assignment after wildfires. Proceedings of the III International Conference on Agro Big Data and Decision Support Systems in Agriculture.

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Recent Talks

Conferences and science communication

These are some of the recent talks and conferences in which we have participated. A full list is available here.

Martes de Física y Astronomía / Physics and Astronomy Tuesdays.

In this interview, we talk about the engineering part of some iconic science-related things, like the ALMA Telescope, the recent SpaceX trip, and the Event Horizon Telescope.

Jul 14, 2020 7:00 PM — 8:00 PM online

Rodrigo A. Carrasco

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Viaje al Centro de los Datos / Voyage to the Center of Data.

In this interview, we talk about how operations research is key to help in making better decisions and how it fosters interconnections with different domain areas.

May 7, 2020 10:00 PM — 10:30 PM online

Rodrigo A. Carrasco

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