Rodrigo Paredes (Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Universidad de Chile, in 2008. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Talca, Chile. His main research interests include metric space indexing, graph algorithms, and experimental algorithms in general. In 2009, he was a recipient of the Annual Award “JCC Invited Talk” from the Chilean Computer Science Society (SCCC) to the best performing Chilean researcher with a recent Ph.D. in computer science and the Second prize in the 2003 CLEI-UNESCO Latin American Computer Science Master Theses Contest. He was the Coach of the first Chilean Team classified to the ACM-ICPC World Finals, in 2007.