Contact Information:

EBU3B room 4146
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093

cgallegu@cse.ucsd.edu
http://vision.ucsd.edu/~carolina

Education:

Ph.D. in Computer Science– University of California, San Diego March 2011
Computer Science Department
"Beyond Appearance Features: Contextual Modeling for Object Recognition"
Advisor: Serge Belongie

Master in Computer Science – University of California, San Diego June 2008
Computer Science Department

Engineering – University of Chile August, 2005
Computer Science Department
”Information Extraction from the Web: Extraction and Identification of specific content in non-structured text.”
Advisors: Nello Cristianini, Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Bachelor’s degree – University of Chile March, 2004
Computer Science Department

HOnors, awards and fellowships :

IGERT Fellowship, National Science Foundation (NSF) 2007-2009

Graduate Student Fellowship, U.C. San Diego 2005-2006

Chilean Government and BID Internship Award, Silicon Valley Internship July 2003

research interests

Computer Vision and Machine Learning

Academic Experience

University of California San Diego, Computer Science Department
Teaching Assistant September 2006 - December 2006
• Teaching assistant for image processing class.

University of California, Davis, Statistics Department
Junior Specialist October 2004 - July 2005
• Information extraction from the World Wide Web using machine learning and applied statistics.
• Extracting specific fields from unstructured text.

University of Chile, Center for Web Research (www.ciw.cl)
Research Assistant March 2004 - December 2004
• Analysis of relations between users’ queries and selected Chilean websites, for the TodoCL
search engine.
• Web usage mining from TodoCl search engine logs.

industrial experience

Honda Research Institute U.S.A, Mountain View, California
Research Engineering Intern, Object Recognition for ASIMO Robot August 2010 - October 2010

Google Inc, Santa Monica, California
Engineering Intern, Computer Vision Group (Neven) August 2007 - October 2007

Google Inc, Mountain View, California
Engineering Intern, Machine Translation Group June 2006 - September 2006

VIVO POSITIVO, Santiago, Chile (National HIV/AIDS Coordinator)
Programmer and Webmaster March 2002 - 2004
• Designed and developed website for the institution -www.vivopositivo.org.
• Programmed functionalities in PHP, JavaScript and HTML.
• Designed graphic user interface and generated flash animations.

Entegris Inc., San Jose, California, USA
Developer of Web Applications July 2003 - December 2003
• Improved and restructured Entegris Life Sciences website -www.entegrislifesciences.com.
• Analyzed and improved efficiency of e-business system for Life Sciences products.

University of Chile, Engineering and Sciences School, Santiago, Chile
Programmer and Developer of Web Applications September 2002 - March 2004
• Design and development of web application U-Cursos - http://escuela.ing.uchile.cl/ucursos.

Languages:

Native Spanish, fluently written and oral English.