Carlos Olguin
I partner with world-class experts to program awesome applications in matter. In 2011, I founded the Bio/Nano/Programmable Matter group at Autodesk Research. The video below highlights some of the collaborations done under my leadership.
I partner with world-class experts to program awesome applications in matter.
CARLOS OLGUINI partner with world-class experts to program awesome applications in matter. In 2010, I founded the Bio/Nano/Programmable Matter group at Autodesk Research. The video below highlights some of the collaborations done under my leadership. Based on the success of these collaborations, we grew gradually from one to thirty amazing scientists, designers, (business) developers, project specialists, and a PR lead.
We sought to co-develop tools that would dramatically lower the skill threshold in these complex new spaces, allowing more people to get involved to solve important problems, unified by a nascent design pattern to program matter, from molecular therapeutics to the next –self-assembly-driven– manufacturing revolution. Our joint work has been featured or referenced in The New York Times, The Economist, Forbes, Fast Company, two TED.com talks [ 1 ] [ 2 ], DLD, Wired, Techonomy, among other places and media outlets. We have also co-published in academic journals such as Nature Scientific Reports and Architectural Design. More ...
I later assisted the Design Graph team. The Design Graph is a strategic iniative within Autodesk that uses geometric shape analysis and machine learning to support design workflows across a number of industries.
Prior to joining Autodesk Research, I was an interaction designer in domains such as 3D/2D modeling, web search engines, social media, and risk management –the latter on a project for Guggenheim Partners called Riskometry, where Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman was a stakeholder. In the early 2000s I joined a startup called Unext as a distributed systems engineer and left as a principal learning architect. There I collaborated with and learned from Don Norman, and other experts in design, cognitive sciences, and pedagogy.
In 2001, I earned a MSc in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon. In my thesis I proposed and implemented a service brokerage deployment architecture. I hold a BSc in Electronics and Communications from ITESM Campus Monterrey (Mexico). I have also completed accredited graduate studies in systems and molecular biology, first at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden in 2006, and from 2008 to 2011 at Columbia University.
We sought to co-develop tools that would dramatically lower the skill threshold in these complex new spaces, allowing more people to get involved to solve important problems, unified by a nascent design pattern to program matter, from molecular therapeutics to the next –self-assembly-driven– manufacturing revolution. Our joint work has been featured or referenced in The New York Times, The Economist, Forbes, Fast Company, two TED.com talks [ 1 ] [ 2 ], DLD, Wired, Techonomy, among other places and media outlets. We have also co-published in academic journals such as Nature Scientific Reports and Architectural Design. More ...
I later assisted the Design Graph team. The Design Graph is a strategic iniative within Autodesk that uses geometric shape analysis and machine learning to support design workflows across a number of industries.
Prior to joining Autodesk Research, I was an interaction designer in domains such as 3D/2D modeling, web search engines, social media, and risk management –the latter on a project for Guggenheim Partners called Riskometry, where Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman was a stakeholder. In the early 2000s I joined a startup called Unext as a distributed systems engineer and left as a principal learning architect. There I collaborated with and learned from Don Norman, and other experts in design, cognitive sciences, and pedagogy.
In 2001, I earned a MSc in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon. In my thesis I proposed and implemented a service brokerage deployment architecture. I hold a BSc in Electronics and Communications from ITESM Campus Monterrey (Mexico). I have also completed accredited graduate studies in systems and molecular biology, first at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden in 2006, and from 2008 to 2011 at Columbia University.