Summary

Advanced analytics leader with 15+ years bridging academia and industry. I design and deploy data-driven solutions for mining, manufacturing, and services — delivering throughput gains, environmental improvements, and field-data workflow acceleration.

Education

• M.Sc. Program in Project Management
  Universidad de Viña del Mar
• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering

  2019-12-01
  Universidad de Chile

  Courses: CONICYT National Scholarship
• Postgraduate Diploma in Medical Informatics

  2011-07-01
  Universidad de Chile & University of Heidelberg
• B.Sc. in Electronic Civil Engineering

  2009-12-01
  Universidad de Concepción

  Courses: Enrique Molina Garmendia Scholarship, Bicentenario Scholarship

Work Experience

• I&F Decision Science Assoc. Manager | Senior Data Science Lead

  2025-09-01 -
  Accenture – Industry X

  Technical & Project Lead at CODELCO MinCo-Hidro. End-to-end data science for mining process optimization.

  • Strategic deployment of Data & AI solutions across mining operations
  • Internship supervision: geotechnical risk prediction system industrialization
• Data Processing Specialist | Senior Lead Data Scientist

  2025-01-01 - 2025-09-01
  Minera Centinela – AMSA Group

  Advanced analytics across the mining value chain.

  • SAG milling, flotation, stockpile optimization: +120 TPH throughput uplift
  • Air quality initiative: 15% reduction in severe-event alerts
• Business & Technology Delivery Associate Manager

  2024-06-01 - 2024-12-01
  Accenture – Industry X

  Strategic advisor in digital transformation for national mining companies.

  • Generative AI for process improvement and operational communication
  • Underground ore transport optimization and geophysical risk analysis
• Project Leader | Senior Data Scientist

  2022-01-01 - 2024-05-01
  CODELCO

  Optimization projects across flotation, milling, and thickening.

  • +100 TPH throughput increases and copper recovery improvements
  • Computer vision (24-stream) + Generative AI for pollution mitigation
  • Azure Databricks, Data Factory, Kedro, Spark Delta
• Head of Analytics and Development Teams

  2021-08-01 - 2021-12-01
  Alaya Digital Solutions

  Analytics across mining, aquaculture, retail, and brewing.

  • 10-15% production improvements in real operations
  • Computer-vision-based monitoring for salmon processing plants
• Principal ML/AI Engineer | Research Scientist

  2017-08-01 - 2023-10-01
  ALGES – Universidad de Chile

  Applied research in hyperspectral imaging, geostatistics, and geometallurgy.

  • Geometallurgical models integrating spectral and laboratory data
  • Exploration models for brownfield and greenfield operations
  • Published in Mathematical Geosciences, Natural Resources Research, Scientific Data (Nature)
• ML Expert – Electronic Engineer

  2011-07-01 - 2016-03-01
  BNI – SCIAN-Lab, Universidad de Chile

  Scientific computing for biomedical microscopy and super-resolution.

  • First SOFI super-resolution implementation in Chile
  • Collaboration with University of Göttingen, Germany

Skills

Publications

• HIDSAG: Hyperspectral Image Database for Supervised Analysis in Geometallurgy

  2023
  Scientific Data (Nature)

  Public SWIR/VNIR hyperspectral image database of mineral samples with geometallurgical properties.

  View Publication
• Ore-Waste Discrimination with Adaptive Sampling Strategy

  2020
  Natural Resources Research

  Adaptive sampling for grade control in short-term mining planning, validated on three real cases.

  View Publication
• Sampling Strategies for Uncertainty Reduction in Categorical Random Fields

  2019
  Mathematical Geosciences

  Information-theoretic optimal sampling using conditional entropy for geostatistical simulation.

  View Publication
• Geological Facies Recovery Based on Weighted l1-Regularization

  2019
  Mathematical Geosciences

  Weighted compressed sensing for channelized geological facies reconstruction.

  View Publication
• A Robust Stochastic Approach to Mineral Hyperspectral Analysis for Geometallurgy

  2020
  Minerals

  Stochastic process formulation for hyperspectral mineral characterization.

  View Publication

Presentations

• Doctoral Dissertation Defense: Information-Theoretic Sampling for Geological Image Recovery

  2020
  Universidad de Chile, Electrical Engineering Doctoral Program

  Santiago, Chile

  Optimal Sensor Placement for categorical 2D models in mining exploration.
• Multi Pixel Stochastic Approach to Mineral Samples Spectral Analysis

  2020
  Procemin Geomet 2020

  Santiago, Chile (virtual)

  Hierarchical regressor for geometallurgical variable estimation from hyperspectral data.
• Channelized facies recovery based on weighted compressed sensing

  2016
  IEEE SAM Workshop 2016

  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  Weighted compressed sensing for geological facies recovery.

Teaching

• Professional Internship Supervision: Geotechnical Risk Prediction

  2026
  Accenture Industry X

  Role: Mentor / Supervisor

  9-week mentorship on rockburst prediction system industrialization.
• Medical Informatics and Digital Pathology

  2017
  Universidad San Sebastián

  Role: Undergraduate Instructor (2017-2019)

  Microscopy, optics, and image processing for medical technologists.
• Microscopy, Optics, and Super-Resolution

  2012
  Universidad de Chile, Master in Medical Informatics

  Role: Graduate Instructor (2012, 2014)

  Spatial localization, co-localization analysis, and scientific image processing.

Languages

• Spanish

  Native
• English

  Professional Working

Interests

• Data Science & Machine Learning
• Computational Photography & Optics
• Geostatistics & Mining Analytics
• Nature & Hiking