Biography
Alfredo is an assistant research professor in the Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society at Cornell University. Prior to joining Cornell, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the CERC for Data Science at Polytechnique Montreal. He obtained his Ph.D. in operations research at Georgia Tech in 2019. He also holds a mathematical engineering degree from Universidad de Chile. His research aims to bridge theory and practice by using applied modeling and methodological tools from optimization, game theory and algorithm design to analyze pressing issues that public and private services face in urban centers. Some examples of his recent work include equitable congestion pricing and its application to Bogota, capacity planning in centralized mechanisms and its application to the Chilean school choice system, and algorithmic solutions for choice-based matching platforms.