Associate Professor
Santiago, Chile
p.montealegre (at) uai.cl
(2017) PhD. in Computer Science, Université d'Orléans
(2012) Civil Engineering in Mathematics, Universidad de Chile
I'm in the Organizing Committee XXI Summer School on Discrete Mathematics of Valparaíso - Apply here
Program Committee of the 30th International Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems (AUTOMATA 2024)
I was Associate Editor of the International Journal of Modern Physics C (2019 - 2025)
Organizing Committee XX Summer School on Discrete Mathematics of Valparaíso
Organizing Committee XIX Summer School on Discrete Mathematics of Valparaíso
Program Committee of the 16th Latin American Symposium on Theoretical Informatics (LATIN 2024)
Program Committee of the 30th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO 2023)
Program Committee of the 37th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2023)
Chair of the XVIII Summer School on Discrete Mathematics of Valparaíso
Program Committee of the 24th Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2020)
Web-chair of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB 2020)
Organizing Committee of the workshop The Automata Factory 1 (2017) 2 (2019) 3 (2020) and 4 (2021)
Organizing Committee of the XVI Escuela de Verano en Matemáticas Discretas (2019)
Organizing Committee of the 33rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2016)
Organizing Committee of the 40th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG 2014)
Author names are alphabetically ordered - this is the common practice in theoretical computer science.
Shared Versus Private Randomness in Distributed Interactive Proofs.
Pedro Montealegre, Diego Ramírez-Romero, Ivan Rapaport
Algorithmica 87(3): 377-404 (2025)
Compact distributed certification of geometric graph classes.
Benjamin Jauregui, Pedro Montealegre, Diego Ramírez-Romero, Ivan Rapaport
Journal of Computer and System Sciences 154: 103661 (2025)
Sandpiles prediction and crossover on $\mathbb {Z}^2$ within Moore neighborhood.
Pablo Concha-Vega, Eric Goles, Pedro Montealegre, Kévin Perrot.
Natural Computing 24(1): 29-66 (2025)
Dynamical stability of threshold networks over undirected signed graphs.
Eric Goles, Pedro Montealegre, Martín Ríos-Wilson, Sylvain Sené
Theoretical Computer Science 1042: 115229 (2025)
On the parameterized complexity of freezing dynamics.
Eric Goles, Pedro Montealegre, Martín Ríos-Wilson, Guillaume Theyssier
Advances in Applied Mathematics. 157: 102706 (2024)
A Meta-Theorem for Distributed Certification.
Pierre Fraigniaud, Pedro Montealegre, Ivan Rapaport, Ioan Todinca
Algorithmica 86(2): 585-612 (2024)
Symmetrizable Boolean networks.
Juan A. Aledo, Eric Goles, Marco Montalva-Medel, Pedro Montealegre, José C. Valverde
Information Sciences, 626: 787-804 (2023)
Local certification of graphs with bounded genus
Laurent Feuilloley, Pierre Fraigniaud, Pedro Montealegre, Ivan Rapaport, Éric Rémila, Ioan Todinca
Discrete Applied Mathematics 325, 9-36 (2023)
Distributed Maximal Independent Set Computation Driven by Finite-State Dynamics
Eric Goles, Laura Leal, Pedro Montealegre, Ivan Rapaport, Martín Ríos-Wilson
International Journal of Parallel, Emergent, and Distributed Systems 1-13 (2022)
A Large Diffusion and Small Amplification Dynamics for Density Classification on Graphs
Laura Leal, Pedro Montealegre, Axel Osses, Ivan Rapaport
International Journal of Modern Physics C (2022)
Computational Complexity of Biased Diffusion-Limited Aggregation
Nicolás Bitar, Eric Goles, Pedro Montealegre.
SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics 36 (1), 823-866 (2022).
On the complexity of generalized Q2R automaton
Eric Goles, Marco Montalva-Medel, Pedro Montealegre, Martín Ríos-Wilson.
Advances in Applied Mathematics 138, 102355 (2022).
Introducing the activity parameter for elementary cellular automata
Pablo Concha-Vega, Eric Goles, Pedro Montealegre, Martín Ríos-Wilson, Julio Santivañez.
International Journal of Modern Physics C, 2250121 (2022)
On the complexity of asynchronous freezing cellular automata.
Eric Goles, Diego Maldonado, Pedro Montealegre, Martín Ríos-Wilson.
Information and Computation, 281: 104764 (2021).
The role of randomness in the broadcast congested clique model.
Florent Becker, Pedro Montealegre, Ivan Rapaport, Ioan Todinca.
Information and Computation, 281: 104669 (2021).
Generating Boolean Functions on Totalistic Automata Networks.
Eric Goles, Andrew Adamatzky, Pedro Montealegre, Martín Ríos Wilson.
Int. J. Unconv. Comput. 16(4): 343-391 (2021).
Compact Distributed Certification of Planar Graphs.
Laurent Feuilloley, Pierre Fraigniaud, Pedro Montealegre, Ivan Rapaport, Éric Rémila, Ioan Todinca.
Algorithmica 83(7): 2215-2244 (2021).
Freezing sandpiles and Boolean threshold networks: Equivalence and complexity.
Eric Goles, Pedro Montealegre, Kevin Perrot.
Advances in Applied Mathematics 125 (2021).
Computational Complexity of the Stability Problem for Elementary Cellular Automata.
Eric Goles, Fabiola Lobos, Pedro Montealegre, Eurico L. P. Ruivo, Pedro P. B. de Oliveira.
J. Cellular Automata 15(4): 261-304 (2020).
Finding Connected Secluded Subgraphs.
Petr A. Golovach, Pinar Heggernes, Paloma Lima, Pedro Montealegre.
Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 113: 101-124 (2020).
On the Effects of Firing Memory in the Dynamics of Conjunctive Networks
Eric Goles, Pedro Montealegre, Martín Ríos-Wilson.
Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 40(10): 5765-5793 (2020).
Graph Reconstruction in the Congested Clique.
Pedro Montealegre, Sebastian Perez-Salazar, Ivan Rapaport and Ioan Todinca.
Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 113: 1-17 (2020).
The Impact of Locality in the Broadcast Congested Clique Model.
Florent Becker, Pedro Montealegre, Ivan Rapaport, and Ioan Todinca.
SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics 34-1, 682-700 (2020).
On the Complexity of the Stability Problem of Binary Freezing Totalistic Cellular Automata.
Eric Goles, Diego Maldonado, Pedro Montealegre, Nicolas Ollinger.
Information and Computation, 274: 104535 (2020).
The Complexity of the Asynchronous Prediction of the Majority Automata.
Eric Goles, Pedro Montealegre.
Information and Computation, 274: 104537 (2020).
Competing activists—Political polarization.
Böttcher, Lucas, Pedro Montealegre, Eric Goles, and Hans Gersbach.
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 545: 123713 (2020).
Beyond Classes of Graphs with few Minimal Separators: FPT Results Through Potential Maximal Cliques.
Mathieu Liedloff, Pedro Montealegre, Ioan Todinca.
Algorithmica 81(3): 986-1005 (2019).
Mining a Class of Decision Problems for One-dimensional Cellular Automata.
Fabiola Lobos, Eric Goles, Eurico L. P. Ruivo, Pedro P. B. de Oliveira, Pedro Montealegre.
J. Cellular Automata 13(5-6): 393-405 (2018).
Fixing Improper Colorings of Graphs.
Valentin Garnero, Konstanty Junosza-Szaniawski, Mathieu Liedloff, Pedro Montealegre, Pawel Rzazewski.
Theoretical Computer Science 711: 66-78 (2018).
Algorithms parameterized by vertex cover and modular width, through potential maximal cliques.
Fedor V. Fomin, Mathieu Liedloff, Pedro Montealegre, Ioan Todinca.
Algorithmica 80(4): 1146-1169 (2018).
On the complexity of two-dimensional signed majority cellular automata.
Eric Goles, Pedro Montealegre, Kévin Perrot, Guillaume Theyssier.
Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 91: 1-32 (2018).
Naming Game Automata Networks.
Eric Goles, Pedro Montealegre, Javier Vera.
Journal of Cellular Automata 11(5-6): 497-521 (2016).
PSPACE-completeness of majority automata networks.
Eric Goles, Pedro Montealegre, Ville Salo, Ilkka Törmä.
Theoretical Computer Science 609:118-128 (2016).
The complexity of the majority rule on planar graphs.
Eric Goles, Pedro Montealegre.
Advances in Applied Mathematics 64: 111-123 (2015).
Computational complexity of threshold automata networks under different updating schemes.
Eric Goles, Pedro Montealegre.
Theoretical Computer Science 559: 3-19 (2014).
The complexity of the bootstrap percolation and other problems.
Eric Goles, Pedro Montealegre, Ioan Todinca.
Theoretical Computer Science 504: 73-82 (2013).
Deterministic Distributed DFS via Cycle Separators in Planar Graphs.
Benjamin Jauregui, Pedro Montealegre, Ivan Rapaport
ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing - PODC 2025 - Huatulco, Mexico
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Brief Announcement: Deciding FO Formulas Efficiently in Congested Networks.
Fedor V. Fomin, Pierre Fraigniaud, Petr A. Golovach, Pedro Montealegre, Ivan Rapaport, Ioan Todinca
ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing - PODC 2025 - Huatulco, Mexico
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Brief Announcement: Strong and Hiding Distributed Certification of k-Coloring.
Augusto Modanese, Pedro Montealegre, Martín Ríos-Wilson
ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing - PODC 2025 - Huatulco, Mexico
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Distributed Model Checking on Graphs of Bounded Treedepth.
Fedor V. Fomin, Pierre Fraigniaud, Pedro Montealegre, Ivan Rapaport, Ioan Todinca:
38th International Symposium on Distributed Computing - DISC 2024 - Madrid, Spain
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Brief Announcement: Distributed Model Checking on Graphs of Bounded Treedepth.
Fedor V. Fomin, Pierre Fraigniaud, Pedro Montealegre, Ivan Rapaport, Ioan Todinca:
43rd ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing - PODC 2024 - Nantes, France
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The Hardness of Local Certification of Finite-State Dynamics.
Diego Maldonado, Pedro Montealegre, Martín Ríos Wilson
16th Latin American Symposium on Theoretical Informatics - LATIN 2024 - Puerto Varas, Chile
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Local Certification of Majority Dynamics.
Diego Maldonado, Pedro Montealegre, Martín Ríos Wilson, Guillaume Theyssier
49th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science - SOFSEM 2024 - Cochem, Germany
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Distributed Certification for Classes of Dense Graphs.
Pierre Fraigniaud, Frédéric Mazoit, Pedro Montealegre, Ivan Rapaport, Ioan Todinca
37th International Symposium on Distributed Computing - DISC 2023 - L'Aquila, Italy
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Energy-Efficient Distributed Algorithms for Synchronous Networks
Pierre Fraigniaud, Pedro Montealegre, Ivan Rapaport, Ioan Todinca
30th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity - SIROCCO 2023 - Alcala de Henares, Spain
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Computing Power of Hybrid Models in Synchronous Networks
Pierre Fraigniaud, Pedro Montealegre, Pablo Paredes, Ivan Rapaport, Martín Ríos-Wilson, Ioan Todinca
26th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems - OPODIS 2022 - Brussels, Belgium
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Brief Announcement: Computing Power of Hybrid Models in Synchronous Networks
Pierre Fraigniaud, Pedro Montealegre, Pablo Paredes, Ivan Rapaport, Martín Ríos-Wilson, Ioan Todinca
36th International Symposium on Distributed Computing - DISC 2022 - Augusta, Georgia, USA
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A Meta-Theorem for Distributed Certification.
Pierre Fraigniaud, Pedro Montealegre, Ivan Rapaport, Ioan Todinca:
29th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity - SIROCCO 2022 -Paderborn, Germany
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Distributed Interactive Proofs for the Recognition of Some Geometric Intersection Graph Classes.
Benjamin Jauregui, Pedro Montealegre, Ivan Rapaport:
29th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity - SIROCCO 2022 -Paderborn, Germany
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Compact Distributed Interactive Proofs for the Recognition of Cographs and Distance-Hereditary Graphs.
Pedro Montealegre, Diego Ramírez-Romero, Ivan Rapaport:
23rd International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems - SSS 2021 - Virtual Conference
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On the Impact of Treewidth in the Computational Complexity of Freezing Dynamics.
Eric Goles, Pedro Montealegre, Martín Ríos Wilson, Guillaume Theyssier:
17th Conference on Computability in Europe - CiE 2021 - Virtual Conference
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Shared vs Private Randomness in Distributed Interactive Proofs.
Pedro Montealegre, Diego Ramirez-Romero, Ivan Rapaport
31st International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation - ISAAC 2020 - Virtual Conference
Compact Distributed Certification of Planar Graphs.
Laurent Feuilloley, Pierre Fraigniaud, Pedro Montealegre, Ivan Rapaport, Éric Rémila, and Ioan Todinca:
39th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing - PODC 2020 - Virtual Conference
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On Distributed Merlin-Arthur Decision Protocols.
Pierre Fraigniaud, Pedro Montealegre, Rotem Oshman, Ivan Rapaport, and Ioan Todinca.
26th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity - SIROCCO 2019 - L’Aquila, Italy
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On the effects of firing memory in the dynamics of conjunctive networks.
Eric Goles, Pedro Montealegre, Martín Ríos Wilson.
25th International Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems AUTOMATA 2019 - Guadalajara, Mexico
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Two Rounds Are Enough for Reconstructing Any Graph (Class) in the Congested Clique Model.
Pedro Montealegre, Sebastian Perez-Salazar, Ivan Rapaport, Ioan Todinca.
25th Int. Col. on Struc. Info. and Communication Complexity - SIROCCO 2018 - Ma’ale HaHamisha, Israel
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The Impact of Locality on the Detection of Cycles in the Broadcast Congested Clique Model.
Florent Becker, Pedro Montealegre, Ivan Rapaport, Ioan Todinca.
13th Latin American Symposium in Theoretical Informatics - LATIN 2018 - Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Fast-Parallel Algorithms for Freezing Totalistic Asynchronous Cellular Automata.
Eric Goles, Diego Maldonado, Pedro Montealegre, Nicolas Ollinger.
14th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry - ACRI 2018 - Como, Italy.
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Finding Connected Secluded Subgraphs.
Petr A. Golovach, Pinar Heggernes, Paloma Lima, Pedro Montealegre.
12th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation - IPEC 2017 - Vienna, Austria.
Three notes on distributed property testing.
Guy Even, Orr Fischer, Pierre Fraigniaud, Tzlil Gonen, Reut Levi, Moti Medina, Pedro Montealegre, Denis Olivetti, Rotem Oshman, Ivan Rapaport and Ioan Todinca.
31st International Symposium on Distributed Computing - DISC 2017 - Vienna, Austria.
On the computational complexity of the freezing non-strict majority automata.
Eric Goles, Diego Maldonado, Pedro Montealegre, Nicolas Ollinger.
23rd International Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems - AUTOMATA 2017 - Milan, Italy.
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(Brief Anouncement) Deterministic graph connectivity in the broadcast congested clique.
Pedro Montealegre, Ioan Todinca.
35th ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing - PODC 2016 - Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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A Fast Parallel Algorithm for the Robust Prediction of the Two-Dimensional Strict Majority Automaton.
Eric Goles, Pedro Montealegre.
12th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry - ACRI 2016 - Fez, Morocco.
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On distance-d Independent Set and other problems in graphs with few minimal separators.
Pedro Montealegre, Ioan Todinca.
42st International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science - WG 2016 - Istanbul, Turkey.
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Beyond classes of graphs with few minimal separators: FPT results through potential maximal cliques.
Mathieu Liedloff, Pedro Montealegre, Ioan Todinca.
41st International Workshop on Graph Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science - WG 2015 - Munich, Germany.
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The Simultaneous Number-in-Hand Communication Model for Networks: Private Coins, Public Coins and Determinism.
Florent Becker, Pedro Montealegre, Ivan Rapaport, Ioan Todinca.
21th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity - SIROCCO 2014 - Hida Takayama, Japan.
[proceedings version][preprint]
Algorithms parameterized by vertex cover and modular width, through potential maximal cliques.
Fedor V. Fomin, Mathieu Liedloff, Pedro Montealegre, Ioan Todinca.
14th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops - SWAT 2014 - Copenhagen, Denmark.
PhD. program in Complex System Engineering, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez:
(2020-2024) Pablo Concha
(2020-2024) Julio Santivañez
PhD. program in Data Science, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez:
(2024-today) Gerardo Dos Ramos
(2024-today) Alejandro García
PhD. program in Applied Mathematics, Universidad de Chile:
(2023-today) Benjamín Jauregui
(2021-2023) Laura Leal
Master program in Applied Mathematics, Universidad de Chile:
(2025 - today) Jorge Valenzuela
(2024-today) Antonia Labarca
(2024-2025) Carlos Antil
(2024-2025) Gary Vidal
(2023-2025) David Cifuentes
(2022-2023) Francisco Aliaga
(2021-2022) Pablo Paredes
(2021-2022) Iván Zúñiga
(2021-2022) Benjamín Jauregui
(2019-2020) Diego Ramirez
Postdoc, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez:
(2021) Martín Ríos-Wilson
Algebra: 2018 - 2019 - 2020 - 2022 - 2023 - 2024
Linear Algebra: 2018 - 2019 - 2020 - 2021 - 2022 - 2023 - 2024
Discrete Mathematics: 2024
Introduction to Programming: 2018 - 2025
Data Structures and Algorithms: 2019
Workshop in Data Analysis: 2020 - 2021 - 2022 - 2023 - 2024 - 2025
Algorithms: 2025
(2025 - 2028) Milenium Nucleus for Social Data Science (SODAS) - NCN2024_103 - PI
(2025 - 2027) ECOS-ANID ECOS240020 - PI
(2025 - 2027) STIC-AmSud proyect AMSUD240005 - International Coordinator
(2023 - 2027) ANID-FONDECYT Regular - 1230599 - PI
(2022 - 2024) STIC-AmSud proyect CAMA - 22-STIC-02
(2020 - 2024) ANID-FONDECYT Regular - 1200006 - CoResearcher
(2020) Best Young Researcher of 2019 - Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
(2019 - 2022) ANID-FONDECYT Iniciación en la Investigación - 11190482 - PI
(2018 - 2020) STIC-AmSud Proyect CoDANet 8882.197456/2018-01 - PI
(2018 - 2021) PAI - 77170068 - Subvención a la Incorporación a la Academia - PI