Place and Date of Birth: Osorno, Chile | 11 October 1988
Address: José Miguel Carrera 439 dpto215 Santiago, Chile
Phone: +56 9 91451800 email: ignacio.rios.u@gmail.com
May 2014 Master in Operations Research , University of Chile , Santiago
Thesis: “Modelamiento, estimación, y generación de árboles de escenarios para los precios del cobre.” | Advisor: Prof. Andrés Weintraub
Highest Distinction, Gpa : 6.7/7.0, Rank : 1/7
May 2014 Undergraduate Degree in Industrial Engineering , University of
Chile , Santiago
Highest Distinction, Gpa : 7.0/7.0, Rank : 1/106
July 2012 Bachelors Degree in Industrial Engineering , University of Chile ,
Santiago
Highest Distinction, Gpa : 6.2/7.0, Rank : 1/596
December 2006 Liceo Alianza Francesa “Claude Gay” , Osorno,
Final Grade : 6.9/7.0, Rank : 1/32
Feb 2014 Current Research Assistant at Department of Industrial Engineering ,
University of Chile, Santiago
Stochastic optimization in natural resources. Specifically, inclusion of uncertainty in forestry and energy management.
Jan 2013-Jan 2014 Research Assistant at Department of Mathematics , University of California, Davis, USA
ARPAe project. Design of a methodology to generate scenario trees to represent load uncertainty in the Security Constrained Stochastic Unit Commitment problem.
Jan 2011-Dec 2012 Project: Design and Implementation of the Admission System to
Chilean Universities
Design and implementation of the algorithm to solve the Chilean college admissions problem. Analysis of the impact of high school class rank in the admission process. Implementation of software solutions to perform special admission processes.

Mar 2014 Jul 2015 Development of the software to solve the Chilean college admissions problem
Design and implementation of the software that is going to be used from now on to solve the Chilean college admissions problem. The software considers a GUI and provides multiple options to solve the assignment problem, optimizing the use of vacancies and allowing an improvement of around 5% in the results of the allocation.
Nov 2014 May 2015 Development of the software to solve the special admission system at the University of Chile
Design and implementation of the software that is currently used to allocate special vacancies (for international students, sport scholarships, ethnic vacancies and many others) at the University of Chile.
Sep 2012 - Dec 2012 Development of a software to solve the school meals auction in Chile.
Design and implementation of a software to solve the combinatorial auction to assign the meal contracts to provide meal services at schools for low-income students.
Idioms: Spanish, English, French
Programming skills: Python, Java, VB, SQL, Pyomo, Matlab, LaTex, Office
TA Experience: Economics, Microeconomics, Optimization, Operations Research,
Operations Management
Others: Founder of TwoMatch Consulting ( http://www.twomatch.cl
),
Consulting company focused on providing solutions to higher education institutions.
• Best student of his master’s class, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Chile, 2014,
• Best student of his Industrial Engineering’s undergraduate class, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Chile, 2014,
• Best Teaching Assistant, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Chile, 2013,
• Best student of his Industrial Engineering’s bachelors class, Department of Industrial Engineering,
University of Chile, 2012,
• CONICYT Fellowship for Master Studies, 2013,
• “Whole Industrial” Prize, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Chile, 2011, 2012,
• Outstanding Student Prize, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Chile, 2007, 2008,
2009, 2010, 2011.
• Efecto de la incorporación del Ranking de Notas en la selección universitaria, with T. Larroucau and A. Mizala, 2013,
• Stochastic Unit Commitment at ISO Scale, an ARPAe project, with K. Cheung, Y. Feng, D. Gade,
Y. Lee, C. Monroy, F. Rüdel, S. Ryan, J.-P. Watson, R. Wets and D. Woodruff, in IEEE Power &
Energy Society General Meeting Proceedings, 2014.
• Modeling and estimating commodity prices, with R. J-B. Wets, in Mathematics and Financial
Economics, (on-line).

• Multi-period forecasting and scenario generation with limited data, with R. J-B. Wets and D.
Woodruff, in Computational Management Science, (online).
• Toward Scalable Stochastic Unit Commitment - Part 1: Load Scenario Generation, with Y. Feng,
S. M. Ryan, K. Spurkel, J.P Watson, R. J-B Wets and D. Woodruff, in Energy Systems (online).
• Effect of Including High-School Grades Rank in the Admission Process to Chilean Universities, in
Pensamiento Educativo, 52 (1), 95–118 . Revista de Investigación Educacional Latinoamericana
(PEL).
• Building a stochastic programming model from scratch: A harvesting management example, with
A. Weintraub and R. J-B Wets, in Quantitative Finance, (submitted)
• Using stochastic programming methods to inform strategic forest management planning with fire, with D. Martell, A. Weintraub, R. J-B Wets and D.L. Woodruff, (working paper)
• College admissions problem with ties and flexible quotas, with R. Cominetti, T. Larroucau and G.
Parra, (working paper)
• INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 2014,
• Annual Meeting of the Economics Chilean Society, Reñaca, Chile, 2014,
• International Conference on Stochastic Programming, Bergamo, Italy, 2013.