About Myself
Bio
My full name is Juan Carlos Maureira Bravo. I was born in Santiago, Chile. I lived there until the age of 18th. Then I moved to Antofagasta to study Engineering in Computer Sciences. In 2002/2004 i got a scholarship from DAAD to expend one year in Germany, where I wrote my Engineer thesis. When I returned to Chile, I got my Engineer Diploma (Academic degree: Licensed on Engineering sciences; Diploma Civil Engineer in Computer Sciences). After that, I returned to Santiago, where I started to work as System and Project Engineer (in the HPC Project) and in the Center for Mathematical Modelling, at the University of Chile. I was there from 2004 until early 2008, from when i moved to France to start my PhD.
Engineering Degree
I received my Engineering degree at the Universidad Catolica del Norte, in march 2004. I wrote my diploma thesis Evaluation of a Burst Friendly Treatment for Quick Forwarding PHB at the University of Karslruhe, Germany, in 2002/2003. It was guided in Chile by Dr. Carlos Pon, and in Germany, by Dr. Goetz Lichtwald, Dr. Mark Doll and Prof.Dr. Martina Zitterbart.
System Administration
My first job position as Engineer was in the Center for Mathematical Modelling (CMM) and Mathematical Engineering Department at the University of Chile. I was as sysadmin from July 2004 until August 2006, from where i moved to a research engineer position in the same research center leading the Hyper Performance Computing Laboratory (HPCLab).
Project Engineer
At CMM i started in 2006 to lead the HPC Lab, on charge of the HPC infrastructure (two clusters) and also working in transportation systems with Roberto Cominetti, in Weather forecasting simulations with Laura Gallardo K. and Telecomunication Systems with Alejandro Jofre. I was in that position until January 2008, where i moved to France to start my PhD. at INRIA, specifically in the project MASCOTTE.
PhD. Studies
In February, 2008, I started my PhD at INRIA, as student in the University of Nice. My main advisor is Jean-Claude Bermond, and my co-advisor is Oliver Dalle. My principal research area is discrete simulation, from high-level systems, such as Wireless Networks, to the simulation systems it self, such as simulators algorithms. My main concern is to discover how the simulation can aid the develop of new systems, protocols or architectures. Check here to read more about my Thesis.