About

Hi! I'm a fourth year Ph.D. student in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University in the City of New York, where I am fortunate to be co-advised by Agostino Capponi and Jay Sethuraman. My research examines market design and optimization algorithms in power and energy systems, as well as the structure and organization of financial markets for real assets. My current projects focus on contract design and algorithmic pricing in electricity markets, as well as financial intermediation and resource allocation in the presence of externalities. 

I plan to be on the 2026-2027 academic job market.

I received my B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Católica (PUC) Chile. In my masters thesis "Adaptive Robust Optimization for Power Systems Planning" I developed novel methods to deal with uncertainty and variability in the energy capacity expansion planning problem - a problem solved by system operators in many countries to find socially optimal network expansion plans for their energy systems. I am a research affiliate at Columbia's Center for Digital Finance and Technologies, was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, and was also an inaugural Global Energy Fellow at Columbia's Center on Global Energy Policy. My research is partially funded by the Tang Family Fund for Research Innovations in FinTech, Engineering and Business Operations. 

Prior to graduate school, I held an adjunct professor position at PUC Chile and co-designed and co-taught a course on Climate and Energy Policy for Stanford University’s Bing Overseas Program in Santiago. I also served as Technology Specialist at the Chilean Ministry of Energy, overseeing modeling tools for policy design in the New Energy Carriers Unit.

Contact

Email: 

fav2114 [at] columbia [dot] edu

Office: 

Columbia Engineering Innovation Hub New York

2276 12th Ave, New York, NY 10027, United States