Alejandro Hevia

I am assistant professor at the Dept. of Computer Science at the Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas y Matematicas of the Universidad de Chile. I've got my Ph.D. from the Dept. of Computer Science of the U. of California, San Diego (UCSD). Previously, I got an Engineering in Computer Science degree and a B.Sc. from the Dept. of Computer Science at the Universidad de Chile.

My main interests are in the following areas:

Cryptography: in particular, cryptographic protocols for distributed systems (voting, anonymity, p2p systems)
Computer and Network Security, including malware analysis and prevention.

I am also the Director of the CLCERT, a Chilean Computer and Emergency Response Team and Computer Security Research Group.

Contact Information:

Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación
Fac. de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas
Universidad de Chile
Blanco Encalada 2120, Tercer Piso
Santiago - Chile, 837-0459

Tel: (56) (2) 978-4365, o 978-4366. Fax: (56) (2) 689-5531
Email: (see email).

Research

My publications.
Part of my work is supported by Conicyt via Fondecyt No. 107033.

Steering Committees:

Latincrypt: International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America.
Proyecto Amparo.

Conferences and events I am or have been involved in:

The Sao Paulo Advanced School of Cryptography (SP-ASCrypto) 2011, Campinas, Brazil, Oct. 2011. JCC 2011, IFIP SEC 2011.
Inscrypt 2010, Latincrypt 2010, Amparo Taller 2010 (Santiago, Chile), IDMAN 2010, FIRST TC 2009 (local organizer), Inscrypt 2009, LADC 2009, Secrypt 2009, CIBSI 2009, Secrypt 2008, LATIN 2008, ISC 2007, ACNS'07, LATIN 2006 (co-chair with Marcos Kiwi and José Correa).

Current Students:

Ph.D. students: Julio Quinteros, (2006-,anonymity), Philippe Camacho, (2007-,accumulators and secure distributed data structures).
Ms. students: Renata Faccilongo (2010-11, darknet visualization), Patricio Seguel, (2010-11, anonymity), Cristian Rojas (2010-11, privacy in social networks).
Undergraduate students: Rodrigo Porras (2010-11, evoting), Alonso Gonzalez (2010-11, multiparty computation).

Former Students:

Francisca Moreno (2009-10, secure mobile p2p devices)
Patricio Seguel, (2008-09, librería de canales anónimos)
Fernando Krell (2008-09, distributed backup)
Sergio Miranda, (2008,evoting)
Pamela Cordero, (2007-08,evoting)
Francisco Echeverría (2007-08, flow-based distributed monitor).

Teaching

Current courses:

2011/1: CC5310: Fundamentos de la Criptografía (graduate and upper-level undergraduate, in Spanish), former CC62W.
2011/1: CC6301: Tópicos de la Criptografía Moderna (graduate and upper-level undergraduate, in Spanish), a variant of former CC70X.

Past courses:

2010/1: CC3102: Fundamentos de Ciencias de la Computación (undergraduate, in Spanish), former CC30B.
2010/2: CC5301: Introducción a la Criptografía Moderna (upper-level undergraduate, in Spanish), former CC51Q.
2010/2: CC51D: Seguridad de Datos (upper-level undergraduate, in Spanish).
2009/1: CC30B: Fundamentos de Ciencias de la Computación (undergraduate, in Spanish).
2009/1: CC51Q: Introducción a la Criptografía Moderna (upper-level undergraduate, in Spanish).
2008/2: CC70X: Seminario de Criptografía: Computación Multipartita Segura y Aplicaciones (graduate level, in Spanish).
2008/1: CC30B: Fundamentos de Ciencias de la Computación (undergraduate, in Spanish).
2008/1: CC62W: Fundamentos de la Criptografía (graduate and upper-level undergraduate, in Spanish).
2007/2: CC51D: Seguridad de Datos (upper-level undergraduate, in Spanish).
2007/1: CC51Q: Introducción a la Criptografía Moderna (graduate and upper-level undergraduate, in Spanish).
2007/1: CC30B: Fundamentos de Ciencias de la Computación (undergraduate, in Spanish).

Current Assignments

Director of the Chilean Computer Emergency Response Team (CLCERT), and founding member of the Applied Cryptography and Security Laboratory (CASLAB) of the University of Chile.
CLEI representative to the IFIP TC11 Group.
Administration: Member of the CS Dept.'s advisory board.

Some Past Assignments

Administration: Outreach/Communications coordinator for the CS Dept. (2007-2009).
Served as Chilean representative for the IFIP TC11 Group (2007-2009).

Personal

Tips for traveling around Chile: A short document grew out of questions from friends visiting Chile and around.

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Last update: June 2011