The objective of the Latin American Doctoral Thesis Contest (CLTD) is to identify and promote the best regional doctoral theses in Informatics, Computing, or other related areas, from a Latin American university member of CLEI, in one of the disciplinary areas defined in the computing curriculum established by the IEEE/ACM.

CLTD X – CLEI 2024, Buenos Aires – Argentina

#Winning NameThesis TitleUniversity
1st PRIZEWilliam HoyosModelamiento predictivo y prescriptivo para el manejo clínico del dengueUniversidad EAFIT, Medellin, Colombia
2nd PRIZEHumberto FariasTensor Mask R-CNN: A Tensor Methods and Deep Approach to Multi-Band Morphological Segmentation and Classification of GalaxiesUniversidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile
3rd PRIZEHernâni Delgado ChantreMEC Placement Problem in Protected 5G NetworksUniversidade Estadual de Campinas, Brasil

CLTD IX – CLEI 2023, La Paz – Bolivia

#Winning NameThesis TitleUniversity
1st PRIZERodrigo A. C. da SilvaThe Fog Node Location ProblemUniversidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil
2nd PRIZELeonardo LeiteA grounded theory of organizational structures for development and infrastructure professionals in software-producing organizationsUniversidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil
3rd PRIZEGabriela CajamarcaVisualization of health data on mobile devices for older adultsUniversidad de Investigación de Tecnología Experimental Yachay (Yachay Tech), Ecuador

CLTD VIII – CLEI 2022, Armenia – Colombia

#Winning NameThesis TitleUniversity
1st PRIZEAllan M. de SouzaTowards a Personalized Multi-objective Vehicular Traffic Re-routing SystemUniversidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil
2nd PRIZECarlos Alberto Astudillo TrujilloMedium Access Control Techniques for Massive Machine-Type Communications in Cellular NetworksUniversidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil
3rd PRIZEJulio César Mello RománEsquemas Morfológicos Multiescala Basados en Operaciones de Top-Hat para Aplicaciones de Mejora y Fusión de ImágenesUniversidad Nacional de Asunción (UNA), Paraguay

CLTD VII – CLEI 2021, Cartago Costa Rica

#Winning NameThesis TitleUniversity
1st PRIZERodolfo Miranda PereiraDealing with Imbalanceness in Hierarchical Classification Problems Through Data ResamplingPontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR), Brasil
2nd PRIZEJesús Guillermo Falcón CardonaNew Findings on Indicator-based Multi-Objective Evolutionary AlgorithmsCentro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINESTAV-IPN), Mexico
3rd PRIZEBernardo Bentes GattoPattern-set Representations using Linear, Shallow and Tensor SubspacesUniversidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), Brasil

CLTD VI – CLEI 2020, Loja – Ecuador

#Winning NameThesis TitleUniversity
1st PRIZEFelipe ForeroGeometric Aspects and Random Delays in Probabilistic Broadcasting for Wireless Ad Hoc NetworksUniversidad de los Andes (UNIANDES, Colombia) y Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP, Brazil)
2nd PRIZEJandson Santos Ribeiro SantosBelief Change without CompactnessUniversidade de São Paulo(USP), Brazil
3rd PRIZEFacundo QuirogaMedidas de Invarianza y Equivarianza a Transformaciones en Redes Neuronales ConvolucionalesUniversidad Nacional de la Plata (UNLP), Argentina

CLTD V – CLEI 2019, Ciudad de Panamá – Panamá

#Winning NameThesis TitleUniversity
1st PRIZEErnesto DufrechouAccelerating advanced preconditioning methods on hybrid architecturesUniversidad de La Republica, Uruguay
2nd PRIZEHelder OliveiraProteção em Redes Ópticas Elásticas com Multiplexação EspacialUniversidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
3rd PRIZELyubanit RodríguezInterfaces for monitoring patients with painPontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile

CLTD IV – CLEI 2018, Sao Paulo – Brasil

#Winning NameThesis TitleUniversity
1st PRIZEDiego Furtado SilvaAlgorithms for Scaling Similarity-Based Time Series MiningBrazil
2nd PRIZEFrancisco J. GutierrezGuidelines to Design Computer-Based Technology for Supporting Informal Elderly Caregiving in Southern Cone FamiliesUniversidad de Chile, Chile
3rd PRIZEFabio López PiresMany-Objective Resource Allocation for Elastic Infrastructures in Overbooked Cloud Computing Datacenters Under UncertaintyUniversidad Nacional de Asunción (UNA), Paraguay

CLTD III – CLEI 2017, Córdoba – Argentina

#Winning NameThesis TitleUniversity
1st PRIZELida Mercedes Barba MaggiMultiscale Forecasting Models based on Singular Values for Nonstationary Time SeriesPontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV), Chile
2nd PRIZELucas de OliveiraO problema dos árbitros viajantes: complexidade, modelagem e algoritmosUniversidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brasil
3rd PRIZEMelina MongioviScaling Testing of Refactoring EnginesUniversidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG), Brazil

CLTD II – CLEI 2016, Valparaiso – Chile

#Winning NameThesis TitleUniversity
1st PRIZEMarcelo FioriGraph inference and graph matching problems: theory and algorithmsUniversidad de la República (Udelar), Uruguay
2nd PRIZERafael Lopes GomesMechanisms for management of SLA for Virtual Software Defined Networks based on QoS ClassesUniversidade Estadual de
Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil
3rd PRIZEMaximiliano BudánA Labeled Argumentation FrameworkUniversidad Nacional del Sur (UNS), Argentina

CLTD I – CLEI 2015, Arequipa – Perú

#Winning NameThesis TitleUniversity
1st PRIZEWallace CasacaGraph Laplacian for Spectral Clustering and Seeded Image SegmentationUniversidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil
2nd PRIZEJesús BellidoDynamic Composition of REST servicesPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC, UC), Chile
3rd PRIZEUéverton dos Santos SouzaMultivariate Investigation of NP-Hard Problems: Boundaries Between Parameterized Tractability and IntractabilityUniversidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Brazil