His research interests are in data management and automata theory. He was the recipient of the Ramon Salas Award for the best chilean work in engineering and the best paper award in ACM-PODS conference on 2011, and he also won the BCS distinguished dissertation competition and received the Cor Baayen Award from ERCIM, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics on 2014. He has served on the program committees of various conferences and workshops, including PODS, SIGMOD and AAAI.