Gonzalo Navarro

Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chile. PhD in Computer Science from the University of Chile and associate researcher at Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data. He has directed the Millennium Nucleus Web Research Center and participated in projects with Yahoo! Research, the Millennium Institute Cell Dynamics and Biotechnology, ECOS/CONICYT (Chile-France Cooperation), AMYRI (CYTED Project), and a Fondef project. He participates in the Millennium Nucleus for Information and Coordination in Networks and the Center for Biotechnology and Bioengineering. He has been co-chair of conferences such as SPIRE 2001, SCCC 2004, SPIRE 2005, SIGIR 2005 Posters, IFIP TCS 2006, a track of ENC 2007, SISAP 2008, SISAP 2012, LATIN 2016, SPIRE 2018, and CPM 2018.

He co-founded SISAP in 2008 and is a member of the Steering Committee of SPIRE, LATIN, and SISAP. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the journals Information Retrieval and Information Systems, and Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics. He has been Special Issue Guest Editor for ACM SIGSPATIAL, Journal of Discrete Algorithmics, Information Systems, Algorithmica, and Information and Computation. He has been a member of the PC of more than 50 international conferences and a reviewer for more than 40 international journals. He has given more than 50 invited talks at universities and international conferences, including 12 plenary talks and five tutorials at international conferences. In 2005, he created the Workshop on Compression, Text and Algorithms, which has become a permanent satellite of SPIRE.

He is co-author of two books published by Cambridge University Press, 25 book chapters, eight international conference proceedings as editor, more than 150 papers in international journals, and more than 230 in international conferences. He is one of the most prolific and cited authors in Latin America.