Man

Joaquin Fontbona Torres

Associate Professor

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Probability and stochastic Processes with applications in Physics and Biology. Statistics and machine learning with applications in signal processing, remote sensing and mining

Educación

  •  Mathematics, UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE-PARIS VI. Francia, 2004
  •  Probability and applications, UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE-PARIS VI. Francia, 2000
  •  Mathematical engineer, UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE. Chile, 1999

Experiencia Académica

  •   Assistant Professor Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

    CIENCIAS FÍSICA Y MATEMÁTICAS

    Santiago, Chile

    2003 - 2011

  •   Associate profesor Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

    CIENCIAS FÍSICA Y MATEMÁTICAS

    CHILE, Chile

    2011 - A la fecha

  •   Profesor Temporal Part Time

    UNIVERSITE PARIS OUEST - PARIS X (NANTERRE)

    Paris, Francia

    2003 - 2004

  •   Director Part Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

    Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas y Matematicas

    Santiago, Chile

    2018 - 2020

  •   Investigador Doctoral Full Time

    UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE-PARIS VI

    Paris, Francia

    2000 - 2003

  •   Docente Part Time

    ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE PARIS

    Paris, Chile

    2013 - 2013

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Assistant Professor Full Time

    Universidad de Chile

    Santiago, Chile

    2004 - 2010

  •   Associate Professor Full Time

    Universidad de Chile

    Santiago, Chile

    2011 - A la fecha

  •   Director Departamento de Ingeniería Matemática Other

    Universidad de Chile

    Santiago, Chile

    2018 - 2020

  •   Director Doctorado en Ciencias de la Ingeniería Mención Modelación Matemática Part Time

    Universidad de Chile

    Santiago, Chile

    2013 - 2017

  •   Coordinador Magister Matemáticas Aplicadas Part Time

    Universidad de Chile

    Santiago, Chile

    2018 - 2019

  •   Director Área Aplicada de Minería Other

    Universidad de Chile

    Santiago, Chile

    2018 - A la fecha

Formación de Capital Humano


Postdoctoral:
1. 2019-2021 Antoine Brault, Fondecyt Postdoctoral Project 3200116
2. 2019-2029 Hagop Tossounian, Fondecyt Postdoctoral Project 3200130
3. 2017-2019 Claire Delplancke, CMM Postdoctoral Project
4. 2015-2017 Nga Nguyen. Fondecyt Postdoctoral Project 3160286.
5. 2009-2011 Jean Francois Jabir. Fondecyt Postdoctoral Project 3100132
6. 2006-2007 Javiera Barrera. Postdoc at CMM. Funded by Millenium Nucleus Information and Randomness.

Ph.D. Thesis advised:
1. 2009-2012. Alejandra Christen, Ph. D. in Mathematical Modeling, Department of Mathematical Engineering, University of Chile. Thesis title: \On long-time behavior
of piecewise deterministic Markov processes". Associated Professor since 2012 at Department of Statistics, Ponti fical Catholic University of Valparaiso.
2. 2010-2014. Maria Clara Fittipaldi, Ph. D. in Mathematical Modeling, Department of Mathematical Engineering, University of Chile. Thesis title: \SDE and genealogic
representations of some continuos state population processes ". Postdoctoral Position in U. Buenos Aires (2015-2016) and UNAM (2017-2018).
3. 2013-2015. Roberto Corteez. Ph. D. in Mathematical Modeling, Department of Mathematical Engineering, University of Chile. Thesis title: Propagation of chaos
for pure jump particle systems. Postdoctoral Position in U. Valparaiso, 2016-2018. Aranda Ordaz Price to the Best Ph.D. Thesis in Probability Theory awarded by
SLAPEM (Latin-american chapter of the Bernoulli Society).
4. 2013-2016 . Hector Olivero. Ph. D. in Mathematical Modeling, Department of Mathematical Engineering, University of Chile. In co-direction with Mireille Bossy
(INRIA). Thesis title: \Strong convergence of a Milstein Scheme for a CEV-like SDE and some contributions to the analysis of the stochastic Morris Lecar neuron model.
5. 2017-2020 Gonzalo Ríos. Ph. D. in Mathematical Modeling, Department of Mathematical Engineering, University of Chile. In co-direction with Felipe Tobar
6. 2018-2021 Felipe Muñoz. Ph. D. in Mathematical Modeling, Department of Mathematical Engineering, University of Chile. In co-direction with Vincent Bansaye (Ecole Polytechnique)

Master Level Engineering Thesis advised:
1. Leonardo Sepulveda \Entropy dissipation for hypoelliptic diffusion processes. a pathwise point of view". August 2013
2. Nikolas Tapia Long time behavior of some AIMD processes". December 2013.
3. Victor Riquelme, Stochastic models of bioreactors and some associated stochastic control problems". Co-advised with Hector Ramirez (University of Chile). Finished
April 2012.
4. Ernesto Araya, Mathematical models and numerical implementation of pricing methods for callable bonds ". Finished December 2011.
5. Hector Olivero, Estimation of financial risk measures: an approach based on the concentration phenomenon for empirical functionals". Mathematical Engineering thesis,
University of Chile, January 2011.
6. Julio Backhoff , Robust portfolio optimization in continuous-time fi nancial markets under model uncertainty of non-compact or linear type". Mathematical Engineering
thesis, University of Chile, January 2011.
7. Mauricio Duarte, Large deviations for stochastic interacting particle systems". Mathematical engineering thesis, University of Chile, September 2007.
8. Francisco Silva, Uniform fragmentation processes". Mathematical Engineering thesis, University of Chile, September 2007.
9. Felipe Celery, Study of a Markov jump process in cellular biology ". Mathematical Engineering thesis, University of Chile, November 2007.

Undergraduate Thesis advised:
1. Mara Clara Fittipaldi, Poisson point processes and applications", University of Salta, Argentina, September 2008.


Difusión y Transferencia


2016-2017. Leading researcher of "Construction of P-wave velocity models in El Teniente underground mine using passive seismic data". Joint R&D project between Center for Mathematical Modeling and El Teniente mine division of Corporación del Cobre CODELCO-Chile)
2016-2017. Leading researcher of "Statistical analysis of seismic data for the evaluation of hydraulic fracturing effects in División El Teniente Codelco". Joint R&D project between Center for Mathematical Modeling and El Teniente mine division of Corporación del Cobre CODELCO-Chile)
2014-2016. Leading researcher of \ Design and implementation of algorithms for detecting episodes of strain-softening in micro seismic series of El Teniente mine" . Joint R&D project between Center for Mathematical Modeling and El Teniente mine division of Corporacion del Cobre CODELCO-Chile)
2010-2014. Leading researcher of \Mathematical methods for advanced analysis of micro-seismic data in underground mining" . Joint R&D project between Center for Mathematical
Modeling and El Teniente mine division of Corporacion del Cobre CODELCO-Chile)
2007-2010. Leading researcher of Geomechanical monitoring of underground blockcaving mining through BOTDR (Brioullin Optical Time Domain Reflectometry) data modellng and analysis ". Joint R&D project between Center for Mathematical Modeling and MICOMO S.A.


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Allocation de Recherche

    UNIVERSIDAD PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE

    Francia, 2000

    Fellowship for Ph.D. thesis awarded by the French Ministry of Research .


 

Article (38)

Bayesian learning with Wasserstein barycenters
Quantitative mean-field limit for interacting branching diffusions
Data Science for Engineers: A Teaching Ecosystem
A scalable online algorithm for passive seismic tomography in underground mines
Skeletal stochastic differential equations for superprocesses
Skeletal stochastic differential equations for continuous-state branching processes
Synchronization of stochastic mean field networks of Hodgkin–Huxley neurons with noisy channels
A nondisruptive reliability approach to assess the health of microseismic sensing networks
Dynamics of planar Coulomb gas
Quantitative Uniform Propagation of Chaos for Maxwell Molecules
Ray-Knight representation of flows of branching processes with competition by pruning of L?evy trees
A variational approach to some transport inequalities
Quantitative Exponential Bounds for the Renewal Theorem with Spread-Out Distributions
Rate of convergence to equilibrium of fractional driven stochastic differential equations with some multiplicative noise
Stochastic modeling and control of bioreactors
A TRAJECTORIAL INTERPRETATION OF THE DISSIPATIONS OF ENTROPY AND FISHER INFORMATION FOR STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
An online two-stage adaptive algorithm for strain profile estimation from noisy and abruptly changing BOTDR data and application to underground mines
Long time behavior of telegraph processes under convex potentials
QUANTITATIVE PROPAGATION OF CHAOS FOR GENERALIZED KAC PARTICLE SYSTEMS
Robust Utility Maximization without Model Compactness
Non local Lotka-Volterra system with cross-diffusion in an heterogeneous medium
On the Long Time Behaviour of Stochastic Vortices Systems
Local Existence of Analytical Solutions to an Incompressible Lagrangian Stochastic Model in a Periodic Domain
On SDE associated with continuous-state branching processes conditioned to never be extinct
QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES FOR THE LONG-TIME BEHAVIOR OF AN ERGODIC VARIANT OF THE TELEGRAPH PROCESS
ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF CONSECUTIVE FRAGMENTATION PROCESSES
MEASURABILITY OF OPTIMAL TRANSPORTATION AND STRONG COUPLING OF MARTINGALE MEASURES
STOCHASTIC VORTEX METHOD FOR FORCED THREE-DIMENSIONAL NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS AND PATHWISE CONVERGENCE RATE
THE LIMITING MOVE-TO-FRONT SEARCH-COST IN LAW OF LARGE NUMBERS ASYMPTOTIC REGIMES
Acknowledgement of priority concerning the article "A probabilistic interpretation and stochastic particle approximations of the three dimensional Navier-Stokes equation" Prob. Th. Rel. Fields. 136:102-156 (2006)
Measurability of optimal transportation and convergence rate for Landau type interacting particle systems
A random space-time birth particle method for 2d vortex equations with external field
ON PROLIFIC INDIVIDUALS IN A SUPERCRITICAL CONTINUOUS-STATE BRANCHING PROCESS
Paths clustering and an existence result for stochastic vortex systems
A probabilistic interpretation and stochastic particle approximations of the 3-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations
Uniqueness for a weak nonlinear evolution equation and large deviations for diffusing particles with electrostatic repulsion
Nonlinear martingale problems involving singular integrals
The homotopical reduction of a nearest neighbor random walk

ConferencePaper (1)

A novel notion of barycenter for probability distributions based on optimal weak mass transport

Proyecto (13)

Nucleo Milenio Modelos Estocasticos de Sistemas Complejos y Desordenados
Large scale behavior of stochastic systems
Quantitative trend to equilibrium for some continuous time Markov processes and propagation of chaos for interacting mean eld particle models
Nucleo Milenio Modelos Estocasticos de Sistemas Complejos y Desordenados
VARIATIONAL PROPERTIES AND LONG-TIME BEHAVIOR OF SOME MARKOV PROCESSES AND APPLICATIONS.
Discrete and continuous stochastic reaction-diffusion models
STIC-Amsud Modelos matematicos para recursos naturales
PROBABILISTIC APPROACH FOR SOME NONLINEAR KINETIC EQUATIONS
BASAL Conicyt Centro de Modelamiento Matemático
STOCHASTIC MEAN FIELD MODELS=> SINGULAR INTERACTIONS, LONG TIME BEHAVIOR, AND APPLICATIONS TO SOME NON LINEAR P.D.E.
STOCHASTIC MEAN FIELD MODELS=> SINGULAR INTERACTIONS, LONG TIME BEHAVIOR, AND APPLICATIONS TO SOME NON LINEAR P.D.E.
PROBABILISTIC STUDY OF SOME NONLINEAR PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS FROM FLUID MECHANICS AND KINETIC THEORY AND STOCHASTIC PARTICLE ALGORITHMS FOR THEIR SIMULATION
PROBABILISTIC STUDY OF SOME NONLINEAR PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS FROM FLUID MECHANICS AND KINETIC THEORY AND STOCHASTIC PARTICLE ALGORITHMS FOR THEIR SIMULATION
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Joaquin Fontbona

Associate Professor

MATHEMATICAL ENGINEERING

UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

3
Servet Martinez

Full professor

Mathematical Engineering

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Felipe Tobar

Associate Professor

Initiative for Data and Artificial Intelligence

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Jocelyn Dunstan

Profesora Asistente

Ciencia de la Computación

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Alejandra Christen

PROFESSOR

Instituto de Estadística

Universidad de Valparaíso

Valparaiso, Chile

1
Jorge Silva

Associate Professor

Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Javiera Barrera

Profesora Asociada

FACULTAD DE INGENIERÍA Y CIENCIAS

Universidad Adolfo Ibañez

Santiago, Chile

1
Felipe Bravo

Profesor Asistente

Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile