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About Me

I’m a Chilean Assistant Professor of Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research at Rice University. I’m also a member of the Ken Kennedy Institute and AI-OWLS at Rice University.

My Research

I’m broadly interested in operations research and optimization under uncertainty. My work primarily focuses on developing models and applications for decision-making in uncertain environments. My current work is motivated by applications in cloud computing and e-commerce. Additionally, I am broadly interested in mathematical optimization and Markov decision processes with applications to revenue management, pricing, and resource allocation.

Background

I obtained my Ph.D. in the multidisciplinary Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization (ACO) program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. My home department was ISyE and I was fortunate to be advised by Mohit Singh and Alejandro Toriello. I also hold a B.Eng. and M.S. in Applied Math from Universidad de Chile.

Papers

 

Theses

  • El problema de la degenerancia de grafos en Congested Clique (in Spanish). M.S. in Applied Math thesis, Universidad de Chile, 2016.
  • New benchmarking techniques in resource allocation problems: theory and applications in cloud systems. Ph.D. ACO thesis, Georgia Tech, 2022.

 

Contact

Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research, Rice University.
Duncan Hall 3021.
Houston, Texas.
e-mail: sperez [at] rice [dot] edu