Facebook Reality Labs
Research Intern
Working to create the future of AR/VR.
Jose Barreiros
PhD student in Robotics and MSc. in Systems Eng. (Cornell), Post-graduate certificate in Business Dev. (MIT) and BSc. in Electrical Eng. Founder of 2 companies
PhD student in Robotics and MSc. in Systems Eng. (Cornell), Post-graduate certificate in Business Dev. (MIT) and BSc. in Electrical Eng. Founder of 2 companies
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Experience
Cornell University, College of Engineering
Teaching Assistant
MAE 5340: Innovative Product Design via Digital Manufacturing
Research Intern
Designed a novel haptics actuator and methods for membrane estimation using Deep Learning.
Organic Robotics Lab - Cornell University
Research Assistant
Exploring the intersection of Computer Science, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering in Robotic Systems.
Tutorinhome.com
Founder, CEO
Developed a business for providing home tutoring by booking classes online for the Latin American Market.
Growth the company from 100 to 2k users in the first semester... more of operation.
Growth the company from 100 to 2k users in the first semester... more of operation.
Ecuadorian Space Institute
Engineering Specialist
Designed the electronic circuit and PCB for a multispectral camera to identify hydrocarbon contamination in the
Amazon jungle. Coded the interface firmware in C and Python... more of a CMOS sensor to a embedded system.
Amazon jungle. Coded the interface firmware in C and Python... more of a CMOS sensor to a embedded system.
UAV and Optics Application Laboratory, National Polytechnic School, Ecuador
Intern
Worked on a research project to design a UAV imaging equipment for vegetation remote sensing
PubliUSB
Founder, General Manager
Started a company in on-demand import and manufacturing of custom USB drive. Growth the company from 5k to 90k annual sales by signing a manufacturing outsourcing contract... more with a company in Shenzhen, China. (www.publiusb.ec)
Founder
Employee
Projects
Shape Shifting Controller and Pulsing Skin Controller
Electrical Engineer, 3D CAD, 3D Printing, Soft Robotics · Part of a team directed by Prof. Shepherd working on a handheld device with haptic feedback… · More using shape changing soft materials.
Design and manufacturing of a high end prototype.
Design and manufacturing of a high end prototype.
Redesign of the bus system in the city of Ithaca, NY.
Business - Interface Leader, Design Thinking, User Experience Research, Adobe Illustrator · Design of a product that monetize the real time system… · More information. Exploring User Experience and possible partnerships with local business regarding real time bus system.
Cane & Grabber for senior citizens inspired by soft robotics
team member, Solidworks, 3D Printing, Embedded Electronics · Designed and built a working prototype of a cane and a soft robotics jamming-effect… · More grabber for people that need
walking assistant.
walking assistant.
Assessment of of replantation using Aerial Imagery in Cane
Computer Vision, Image processing, Objective-C, Image Processing Algorithms, Multispectral Imaging
Low cost imaging system for precision agriculture
Embedded Electronics, Embedded C, Image Processing Algorithms · Built few prototypes (electronics, firmware, optics) in Raspberry Pi and ARM STM32 of a… · More multispectral camera for near infrared and visible spectrum. Published in IEEE Chilecon 2015 & IEEE ROPEC 2014
Transfer and Continuous Learning to Address Sensor Drift
Elastomeric optoelectronic systems suffers from extensive sensor drift which causes reduction of accuracy to down to ~40%
when the validation data has… · More been taken a few days after the first acquisition of trainning data. To address this issue, we used
transfer learning to retrain the last layers of a fully connected CNN resulting in an increase of accuracy of ~85%. In addition,
this method results in 20% decrease of the training dataset size.
when the validation data has… · More been taken a few days after the first acquisition of trainning data. To address this issue, we used
transfer learning to retrain the last layers of a fully connected CNN resulting in an increase of accuracy of ~85%. In addition,
this method results in 20% decrease of the training dataset size.
Development of robotic flesh based on optical waveguides
For proprioception (sense of one’s own body) and exteroception (sensitivity to stimuli outside the body), we have created a structure inspired by the human… · More skin that uses high dense-integration of optical nerves or “waveguides” inside an elastomeric body to reconstruct deformation. Such reconstruction is done using a machine learning algorithm (SVM, ANN, Deep NN) and pattern descriptors.
learning from demonstration in a soft robot
A continuum high-degree-of-freedom tendon-driven soft robot is taught different bending behaviors using kinesthetic learning from demonstration.
Education
About
Achievements
2nd place, 2016 MIT Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp, Boston, MA.
1st place - Global nominee, 2015 NASA International Space Apps Challenge, Ecuador.
1st place, 2014 National Research Award for Undergrad Student, Ecuador
Skills
Locations
Q&A
What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?
Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup, Bill Aulet, 2013
What's your favorite non-business book?
Antifragile, Things that gain from disorder. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2014
If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?
Developing technology with high social impact
Which founders or startups do you most admire?
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos
What's your super power?
I understand the customer. I have a balance of technical and business understanding.
What's the best way for people to get in touch with you?
What aspects of your work are you most passionate about?
Innovation. Thinking out of the box. Solving complex problems.
What was the most impactful class you took in school?
Innovative Product Design via Digital Manufacturing
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