About

Something about me

I studied the Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes in Electrical Engineering (research area: Digital Signal Processing) at the Faculty of Engineering, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). I am very attracted to Digital Signal Processing applied to robotic systems; I presented and defended my bachelor’s thesis “Automation of a Greenhouse using Electronic Commercial Components [COTS]” and master’s thesis “Object detection and recognition for mobile robot applications using computer vision techniques”.

I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Visual Information Laboratory, in the Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, UK, working on problems related to computer vision and robotics; I defended my thesis “Map compression techniques for relocalisation in visual mapping” where I explored different task-specific and compact map representations in the context of visual odometry and SLAM.

Former member at the Advanced Intelligence and Robotics Research Center, Tamagawa University, Japan, and currently Adjunct Research Fellow at the Tokyo Information Design Professional University and researcher at Qibitech, Inc. Now and then I collaborate with the Bio-Robotics Laboratory, National Autonomous University of Mexico, and the Graduate Program in Agricultural Engineering and Integral Use of Water, Autonomous University of Chapingo.

I have been working on mobile and service robots and I have presented our research output in national and international journals and conferences and I have been testing our latest results at the World Robot Summit, RoboCup, and similar robot competitions since 2011. I currently serve on the RoboCup@Home Executive Committee.