Alejandro Lopez-Ortiz received his B.Math. degree from the National
University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1989, and his M.Math. and Ph.D. from the
University of Waterloo (Canada) in 1990 and 1996, respectively. In
his research, he combines the development of theoretical tools and
efficient algorithms with real-life applications. He has been a
faculty member in the School of Computer Science, University of
Waterloo since 2001 (promoted to associate professor with tenure in
2004, and full professor in 2012). Previously, he was the director of
research at Internap, a network services corporation, in Seattle. His
research addresses questions in areas such as scheduling, search
engines, data streams, and caching. He has served as chair of various
conferences and workshops.
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