Short biography

Gonzalo Navarro obtained his BSc. in Computer Science at UNLP (National University of La Plata) in 1993 and at ESLAI (Latin American School of Informatics) in 1992, both in Argentina. Between 1991 and 1994 he was a resident researcher at CRAAG (Computer Research and Advanced Applications Group) at IBM Argentina, involved in projects of OCR, graphical and multimedia interfaces and databases. In 1994 he moved to Chile, where he earned his MSc in Computer Science in the University of Chile in 1995. In 1998 he obtained his PhD in Computer Science at the same university, where he became Assistant Professor early in 1999. Between 1999 and 2000 he made a postdoctoral stay at the University of Helsinki (Finland) and the Institut Gaspard Monge, University of Marne-la-Vallée (France). In 2003 he became Associate Professor at the University of Chile, and Full Professor in 2008.

Since 1994, his research has focused on several areas related to design and analysis of algorithms, textual databases and approximate search. His current research interests are: exact and approximate, sequential or indexed, search for simple and complex patterns on linear or structured, plain or compressed, text, and in particular compressed text indexes; and metric spaces. He has coauthored a book (official page), 14 book chapters, more than 65 papers in international journals, and more than 110 papers in international conferences. (See the list of publications). He has guided around 25 students of all levels and is guiding around 10.


In 1994 I married Betina (here we are on July 2002) and on January 10, 2001, our daughter Martina Paz was born (here is she at March 2003).

On April 29, 2004, our twins Facundo Lautaro and Aylén Abril were born (here are them all at May 2004 and at July 2006).