E X P E R I E N C E. I'm developing path planning algorithms for drones that are going to take pictures of crop fields to later create a mosaic.

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1 Andres Torres Garcia andrestoga@ieee.org Objective: Dedicated and creative student eager to solve challenging problems in the areas of computer vision, robot algorithms, artificial intelligence, machine learning and robot motion planning. Research Experience E X P E R I E N C E Robotics Engineer Inbright May Present I'm developing path planning algorithms for drones that are going to take pictures of crop fields to later create a mosaic. Roboticist Indie Science August Present Guadalajara, Mexico Algorithm design for "The Smart Separator". The algorithms are for waste recognition and waste classification Research Assistant June August 2013 Latin American Research Project 2013 Tucson, USA Created five virtual environment to test the effectiveness of a Multiple Object Tracking Algorithm using MOTA and MOTP (multiple object tracking precision) metrics. Worked in the Interdisciplinary Visual Intelligence Lab at the University of Arizona. Presented the results of my contributions in a poster session and in an oral presentation. Software Engineering Intern March May 2013 Intel Corporation Tested INTEL graphic drivers. Research Assistant August December 2011 Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINVESTAV) Guadalajara Campus Created a dynamic 2D map of the environment using a Kinect sensor in the Vision Laboratory. Came up with ideas on how to guide the visually impaired user through the 2D map. The project name was called Smart Guide.

2 Research Assistant May July 2011 Soluciones Tecnológicas, Centro de Tecnología Electrónica Vehicular (CTEV) Searched the literature for information about vehicle-to-vehicle technology. Participated in the reverse engineering process to gather information, such as the project related to vehicle-to-vehicle technology (V2V) under the supervision of Dr. Esteban Martinez Guerrero and Professor Martin Alonso Sinsel Duarte. Teaching Experience Robotics Teacher February July 2014 Netica Research and Technology Guadalajara, Mexico Taught robotic classes at five public high schools which were located in poor neighborhoods of metropolitan Guadalajara, Mexico and in El Salto, Jalisco, Mexico. Lego Mindstorms was the tool used for teaching robotics and for promoting science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields among girls and boys. Schools: Foránea 10 Revolución 46, El Salto, Jalisco, Mexico General 85 Periférico 200, Secundaria Mixta 15 Gigantes 4078, Guadalajara, Mexico Secundaria Mixta 49 Calle Emilio Rabaza 3989, Guadalajara, Mexico Secundaria Mixta 71 Calle Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez 533, Guadalajara, Mexico E D U C A T I O N University of Arizona June-August 2013 C++ Programming Course Tucson, USA Completed Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO) Graduated May 2013 Bachelor of Science in Computer Systems Engineering

3 Grade Point Average: 8.5 on a scale of 10 ITESO-NOKIA January 2013 Windows Phone 24 hours Course Completed Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) Windows June 2009 Vista Client Certification Online Completed O T H E R A C T I V I T I E S Adviser August 2014 November 2014 Freescale Semiconductor Advised a team of three undergraduate students from ITESO University in the participation of the Freescale Cup 2014 contest. Adviser/Mentor March July 2014 Netica Research and Technology Guadalajara, Mexico Selected and advised a group of high school students for four months, who had excelled in their robotic classes with me, to prepare and ultimately to participate in the Third State Tournament of Jalisco 2014 Founder and Chair August December 2013 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society ITESO Student Chapter Founder and chair of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society ITESO Student Chapter. During my tenure The Robotics Day" at ITESO was organized to promote robotics in the university community. For The Robotics Day : Invited speakers to talk about different robotics topics, organized workshops about how to use the robotic platform Lego Mindstorms, created a contest for The Robotics Day attendees. Introduced a pre-existing contest as preparation for The Freescale Cup 2013 contest. Microsoft Student Partner January January 2010 Microsoft Mexico Promoted new technologies of Microsoft to the university community through lectures and workshops. Also promoted new technologies through The Microsoft Student Club we called "ITESOFT". Microsoft Student Partners are undergraduate or postgraduate students who have a passion for technology and who actively participate in sharing knowledge in their immediate academic communities.

4 Software Developer May August 2009 Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO) Responsible for creating software whose desired capabilities were stipulated. Determined both functional requirements and non-functional system constraints. Resulting software was called Search Tools Developed for The Historic Files of The Society of Jesus. P U B L I S H E D PA P E R S Intelligent Waste Separator November 8, 2013 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE-CinvesROB 2013 Published and presented. Authors: Andres Torres Garcia, Omar Humberto Longoria Gándara, Oscar Rodea Aragón, Francisco Sanchez Garcia The paper was presented at the 1st IEEE-CinvesROB Workshop at the Guadalajara campus of Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINVESTAV-IPN) Multimedia Inorganic Waste Separator July 15, 2013 The 2013 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2013) San Jose, USA Published and presented. IEEE Xplore Digital Library Authors: Andres Torres Garcia, Omar Humberto Longoria Gándara, Oscar Rodea Aragón, Francisco Sanchez Garcia Desarrollo de herramientas de búsqueda en los archivos históricos de la Compañía de Jesús ISBN

5 August 25, 2010 Sistemas de Innovación para la Competitividad (SINNCO) Guanajuato, Mexico Published and presented. Authors: Andres Torres Garcia, Christian Adan Espinoza Villareal, Juan Aranda, Vidal Ortiz, Victor Hugo Zaldivar Carrillo, Juan Carlos Alejandre Marquez Link to the publication: IVARC_076.pdf P R O J E C T S The Smart Separator June 2012 to Present Guadalajara, Mexico Team: Andres Torres Garcia, Luis Enrique Gonzalez Jimenez, Omar Humberto Longoria Gándara, Oscar Rodea Aragon, Eduardo Carballo, Javier Angel Castro Rubio, Francisco Sánchez García In charge of the identification and classification of the inorganic waste using images taken only from a web camera. A unique trash receptacle that can automatically segregate aluminum cans, plastic bottles and plastic cutlery from each other and all other trash with the possibility to train the system for other types of waste. The project was developed in C# which uses the EmguCV library that is a wrapper for the OpenCV library in.net framework. Line Following Robot January 2011 to December 2013 Team: Andres Torres Garcia, Oscar Rodea Aragón, Omar Humberto Longoria Gándara The project consisted in an autonomous mobile robot that could follow a black stripe on a white race track. We used a linear camera sensor to detect the black stripe. In charge of the black strip identification. We built and programmed an autonomous mobile robot for the Freescale Cup contest for three years. All the project was developed in C. Experiments with 3D Tracking of Physical Interactions June 2013 to August 2013 Tucson, USA Team: Andres Torres Garcia, Clayton T. Morrison, Ernesto Brau

6 Created five virtual scenarios to test the efficiency of a multiple object tracker algorithm (MOTA). Evaluated how well the tracker was able to track locations and positions over time using MOTA and MOTP (multiple object tracking precision) metrics. Windows Client to Start Graphic Driver Tests on Virtual Machines March 2013 to May 2013 Team: Andres Torres Garcia, Alberto Llerena, David Gonzalez Designed and implemented the GUI for the Windows Client in C#. Windows Client to Start Graphic Driver Tests on Virtual Machines had the objective to automate the tests of graphic drivers in different operating systems using a Windows client. Wireless Mobile Robot Controlled by Remote Human Machine Interaction with Video Streaming August 2012 to December 2012 Team: Andres Torres Garcia, Osvaldo Villalon, Oscar Rodea Aragon, Jorge Rodriguez, Omar Humberto Longoria Gándara Developed a wireless mobile robot that had a mounted web camera which streamed to a Freescale I.M53 processor which executed a Human Machine Interface on Linux to remotely control the robot. In charge of the driver implementation of the mobile robot. The robot was developed for the Freescale Cup Mexico Advance 2012 contest. Smart Guide August December 2011 Team: Andres Torres Garcia, Heriberto Casarrubias Vargas, Eduardo José Bayro Corrochano, Luis Alvarez, Adan Landa Hernandez Figured out how to guide the visually impaired user through the 2D map. The result of my contribution was a real time 2D map and a suggested path that the visually impaired user could take in a Manhattan Geometry. Made a 2D map of the environment using a Kinect sensor. Smart Guide is a system for intelligent guidance of visually impaired people. Vehicle-to-Vehicle Project May July 2011 Team: Andres Torres Garcia, Oscar Rodea Aragón Co-developed two prototypes: one prototype to test communication among cars using Radio Frequency (RF) and another to capture real time information about a car, such

7 as the speed of a car. Co-developed CAN protocol to gather the speed of a car. The objective of the project is to prevent traffic jams by facilitating communication among cars. Automotive Multimedia Interface June May 2011 Team: Andres Torres Garcia, Juan Aranda, Carlos Fernández Guillot Developed the digital dashboard s backbone system. The project consisted of replacing all the gauge analog components in a car dashboard with a digital dashboard which the user could interact with via an LCD touch screen. The project was developed in C# using the XNA Library for graphics and animation. Search Tools Developed for The Historic January June 2010 Files of The Society of Jesus Team: Andres Torres Garcia, Christian Adan Espinoza Villareal, Vidal Ortiz, Juan Aranda, Juan Carlos Alejandre Marquez, Victor Hugo Zaldivar Carrillo Designed and developed the GUI for the search engine. The objective of the project was to develop a software program for the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), Anthropology and History National Institute, that searched within a series of historical Jesuit letters, using tags, words, phrases and logic operators. The project was divided into three subsystems: a search engine, a GUI and a doc to XML converter. H O N O R S A N D A W A R D S Finalist (national) Imagine Cup 2014 Mexico Local Finals in Mexico City Microsoft April 2014 Mexico City, Mexico Reached the local finals in Mexico with the project "Intelligent Waste Separator" now named "The Smart Separator"- Microsoft Imagine Cup is the world's premier student technology competition. First Place New and Active Developers ITESO-NOKIA January 2014 Developed and published over 30 applications on the windows phone store to win the contest. Third Place (national) Freescale Cup 2013

8 Freescale Semiconductor December 2013 The project was named "Line Following Robot".The Freescale Cup is a global competition where student teams build, program, and race a model car around a track for speed. The fastest car to complete the track without derailing wins. Second Place Universitronica 2013 Camara Nacional de la Industria Electronica, de Telecomunicaciones y Tecnologías de la Información (CANIETI) October 2013 The contest project was called "Intelligent Waste Separator (Inorganic waste) and is now renamed The Smart Separator". This contest mission was to incentivize the academic community and private companies to innovate and create electronics, telecommunications, mechatronics, IT, multimedia, and microelectronics. First Place (national) Proyecto Multimedia 2013 Sociedad Latinoamericana de Ciencia y Tecnología (SOLACYT) March 2013 The project Intelligent Trash Can Separator (Inorganic trash) has now been renamed as "The Smart Separator". The award category was Robotica Prototipos. The name of the team was Waste Team. First Place Freescale Cup Advanced 2012 Freescale Semiconductor December 2012 The contest project was "Wireless Mobile Robot controlled by remote Human Machine Interaction with video streaming". The Freescale Cup is a global competition where student teams build, program, and race a model car around a track for speed. The fastest car to complete the track without derailing wins. Third place (national) Expo Ciencias Nacional 2012 Mouvement International pour le Loisir Scientifique et Technique (MILSET) November 2012 Puebla, Mexico The project Intelligent Trash Can Separator (Inorganic trash) has now been renamed as "The Smart Separator". The award category was Environment.

9 First Place (regional) Codigo Ciencia 2012 Sociedad Latinoamericana de Ciencia y Tecnología (SOLACYT) October 2012 The project Intelligent Trash Can Separator (Inorganic trash) has now been renamed as "The Smart Separator". The award category was Environment. Second Place (wordwide) Intel Cup 2012 Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest - Embedded System Design Chinese government and Shanghai Jiao Tong University July 2012 Shanghai, China The project Intelligent trash can separator (Inorganic trash) has now been renamed "The Smart Separator." This was an invitational contest. Third Place (local) Freescale Cup 2011 Semifinals Freescale Semiconductor October 2011 The project name was "Line Following Robot". The Freescale Cup is a global competition where student teams build, program, and race a model car around a track for speed. The fastest car to complete the track without derailing wins. Second Place (worldwide) Infomatrix 2011 Lumina Educational Institutions May 2011 Bucharest, Romania The Second Place was awarded in the category of programming. The project Automotive Multimedia, Old Fashion & Digital Interfaces has now been renamed "Automotive Multimedia Car Interface". First Place (national) Proyecto Multimedia 2011 Sociedad Latinoamericana de Ciencia y Tecnología (SOLACYT) February 2011 The project AutomotiveMult, and dig interfaces now re- named "Automotive Multimedia Car Interface" Third Place (worldwide) Intel Cup 2010 Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest -- Embedded System Design Invitational Contest July 2010

10 Shanghai, China This contest was organized by the Chinese government and hosted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. My project was Automotive multimedia interface, but has now been renamed "Automotive Multimedia Car Interface". Honorable Mention 2010 Association of Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM ICPC) Mexico and Central America Contest November 2010 The ACM ICPC is a multi-tier, team-based, programming competition operating under the auspices of Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and headquartered at Baylor University. S KI L L S A N D E X P E R T I S E Computer Vision Robotics Image Processing Java Embedded Systems Team Leadership Project Planning Visual Studio.NET C# Subversion EmguCV OpenCV Windows Phone I N T E R E S T S Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Computer Vision, Embedded Systems, Software Development, Image Processing, Machine Learning, vslam, Science, Mathematics, Data Structures and Algorithms, Human-robot interaction, Probabilistic Robotics