Education

Rice University, Houston, Texas, 1998-present
Ph.D. in Computer Science (expected May 2003), GPA: 3.8/4.0
Dissertation: Transparent operating system support for superpages
Advisor: Peter Druschel

Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile, 1994-1996
M.S. in Computer Science, GPA: 6.8/7.0
Thesis: A Causally Consistent Protocol for Distributed Shared Memory
Advisor: Alvaro Campos

University of California, San Diego, Fall 1994
Exchange student, GPA: 4.0/4.0

Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile, 1982-1987
B.A. in Engineering, Graduated with honors

Experience

Rice University, Houston, Texas, 1998-present
Graduate Research Assistant
Conducted research on operating systems. Studied how virtual memory is used and stressed by modern workloads, and proposed, implemented and evaluated solutions to improve virtual memory performance and scalability.

Compaq Systems Research Center, Palo Alto, Calif., Summer 2000
Summer Intern
Designed and implemented an off-line binary optimizer that uses profile-directed feedback to specialize code by identifying and eliminating excess generality.

Rice University, Houston, Texas, 1998-2000
Teaching Assistant
TA for Introduction to Computing; Parallel Computing; Operating Systems; Distributed Program Construction; and Automata, Formal Languages, and Computability.

Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile, 1996-1998
Researcher and Lecturer
Lectured Concurrent Programming, Operating Systems, an introductory course to programming, and a short course on computer networks. Conducted research on distributed systems. Served as an external services consultant. Designed a cryptographic device to replace the Chilean Tax Bureau stamp in sales receipts by digital signatures (making the process simpler and cheaper for both retail sellers and the Tax Bureau).

Ingesis Ltda., Santiago, Chile, 1986-1994
Co-founder and project manager
Served as a consultant. Coordinated small software development teams (5 to 8 programmers) for business applications. Developed a modem communication package. Performed technical support and network administration.

Publications

• Juan Navarro, Sitaram Iyer, Peter Druschel and Alan Cox. Practical, transparent operating system support for superpages. Fifth Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '02), Boston, Mass., Dec 2002.
• Juan Navarro and Alan Cox. Mitosis: a high performance, scalable virtual memory system. Technical report TR01-378, Computer Science Dept., Rice University, April 2001.
• Alvaro E. Campos and Juan E. Navarro. A page-coherent, causally consistent protocol for distributed shared memory. Journal of Systems and Software, 72(3):305-319, August 2004.
• Juan E. Navarro. Simulación bajo memoria compartida de un sistema distribuido que simula memoria compartida. III Argentinian Congress of Computer Science, La Plata, Argentina, Oct 1997.
• Juan E. Navarro and Alvaro E. Campos. Coherent causal consistency in distributed shared memory. XV International Conference of the Chilean Computer Society, Arica, Chile, Nov 1995.

Honors and awards

• USENIX Student Research Grant, 2000.
• Rice University Graduate Fellowship, 1998-present.
• Thesis Support Grant, Universidad Católica de Chile, 1995.
• Teaching Assistant Grant, Universidad Católica de Chile, 1995.
• Tuition Waiver, Universidad Católica de Chile, 1981, 1994-1996.
• Top marks, Universidad Católica de Chile, 1981 and 1982.
• Third national score in the Scholastic Aptitude Test (Physics and Chemistry subject test), Chile, 1980.

Academic service

• Member of ACM and USENIX.
• Referee for SCCC 1998, IPPS/SPDP 1999, SOSP 2001, PACT 2001, ICS 2002 and OSDI 2002.
• FreeBSD project contributor.
• Administrator of the Systems Group student's machines, Rice University, 1999-2001.
• Computing facilities coordinator, Computer Science Dept., Universidad Católica de Chile, 1997-1998.
• Office of Research and Graduate Studies assistant, School of Engineering, Universidad Católica de Chile, 1997-1998.

Extracurricular activities

• Rotating Chair (2000) and Treasurer (2001-present) of the Computer Science Graduate Student Association, Rice University.
• Photographer and writer in the 8-month expedition Along the Roads of Magical America from Quebec, Canada, to Quito, Ecuador, 1991-1992.
• Articles published in the Chilean newsmagazines Revista Análisis and Los Tiempos, 1991-1992.