Nicolas Barriga
Department Chair at Universidad de Talca
Talca, Maule Region, Chile
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Top SchoolNicolas Barriga is a computer scientist and academic leader with 17 years of experience bridging software engineering, game AI research, and teaching. After early engineering roles at astronomical observatories and observatory software projects like ALMA and Gemini, he earned a Ph.D. in Computing Science from the University of Alberta focused on search and learning in real-time strategy games. He now chairs the Department of Interactive Visualization and Virtual Reality at Universidad de Talca and directs research on collaborative AI content-creation and procedural puzzle generation (IDeA I+D and FONDECYT projects). A seasoned educator, he has taught advanced game programming, heuristic search, AI, graphics, and systems courses, and mentored student teams building StarCraft bots. He contributes practical code to open-source game AI (e.g., UAlbertaBot back-end features for map visualization and high-level search) reflecting a blend of research and production experience. Fluent in Spanish and English with working French, he combines academic rigor with hands-on engineering across C++, Java, Scala and Python ecosystems.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computing Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computing Science at University of AlbertaMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Informatics Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Informatics Engineering at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
English, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (16)
maps10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
algorithms9
data-structure9
algorithm9
data-structures9
software-design8
java6
graph6
caffe6
deep-learning6
alpha-beta-pruning6
artificial-intelligence6
astar6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
davechurchill/ualbertabot
Feb 2015 - May 2015
UAlbertaBot
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:61 commits, 2 PRs, 3 issues in 3 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily contributed to the `UAlbertaBot` project by implementing functionalities related to drawing and visualizing map information, particularly focusing on BWTA (Brood War Terrain Analysis) data. They added methods to draw base locations, mineral patches, vespene geysers, regions, and chokepoints on the map. Furthermore, the user introduced a new High Level Search module, with placeholder code and incorporated it into the GameCommander, and associated options and state. The user also added functionality to track completed units.
botpython
nbarriga/sparcraft
May 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:152 commits, 1 push in 11 months
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