Carlos Toxtli Email: carlos.toxtli@mail.wvu.edu, carlos@toxtli.me Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toxtli/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/carlos.toxtli Twitter: https://twitter.com/ctoxtli Research Lab: https://humancomputerinteraction.wvu.edu/ Github: https://github.com/toxtli Medium: https://medium.com/@carlostoxtli Youtube: https://goo.gl/73T5Xi Slideshare: https://www.slideshare.net/carlostoxtli Phone: +16505644482 As a lifelong learner and accomplished software engineer, I have held a range of positions from co-founder to Chief Technology Officer. While seeking to tackle the greatest challenges in computer science, I am pursuing my Doctorate at West Virginia University to shape the future of the field. I am looking for the next exciting opportunities. My main areas of interest are Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Bots, Automation, Blockchain, Data Science, Web, Crowdsourcing, Sharing Economy, Cognitive Computing, Quantum Computing, Computer Vision, Mobile, Management, Online Education, E-commerce, UX, Business Models, and Emerging Technologies. |
Academic and Professional Projects
Education
West Virginia University (WVU)
2016 - present Research Visiting Scholar and Ph.D. Student
International University Center (CUIN)
2015 Professor
Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM)
2013 - 2014 Master in Innovation and Technological Entrepreneurship
IEDE Business School, European University of Madrid
2012 - 2013 Master of Business Administration
University of the Valley of Mexico (UVM)
2009 - 2012 BS in Computer Systems Management
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
2003 - 2009 BS in Computer Engineering
Professional Experience
2016 - present Research Visiting Scholar & Graduate Research Assistant
- Main Responsibilities:
- The design, development and evaluation of bot-mediated systems.
- Publish research papers.
- Main Achievements:
- SocialVaccines: Platform that performs contained attacks and delivers security courses to vulnerable people.
- Learnteer: Bot that helps learners develop new skills through volunteering.
- MATT: Bot that delivers micro-tutorials via chat and retrieves feedback from experts.
- Gigapp: A Sharing Economy 2.0 platform that enables non-technical people to create sharing economy platforms.
2017 - present GitHub Campus Expert
- Main Responsibilities:
- Enrich technology communities.
- Main Achievements:
- Empower developers.
2017 Research Intern
- Main Responsibilities: Research and development of bot that helps teams to delegate tasks. Worked under the guidance of Andres Monroy and Justin Cranshaw.
- Main Achievements:
- The bot was developed and deployed during the internship.
- Performed user studies and published a research paper.
2015 Technical Solutions Specialist
- Main Responsibilities: Designed and developed tools to improve education in all public elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools in Mexico, especially focused on CS curriculum in full coordination with the federal government.
- Main Achievements:
- The design and development of “Drive Sync” tool which synchronizes the content of over 2 million tablets that were given to children of the 5th and 6th grades nationally.
- The design of an Android development curriculum and training for all high school professors at the national level (around 150k CS students).
- Design of a programming curriculum for all elementary schools nationally using Scratch (starting pilot could reach over a million children).
- Research paper “Quantifying the Economic Value of Tablets for K–12 Education”.
- Evaluation of device management and anti-theft solutions for governments. Android for Work and different MDM platforms were evaluated.
2014 - 2015 Technical Program Manager
- Main Responsibilities: Designed and developed fully-functional and customizable software integration solutions that allowed schools to use Google products and technologies to improve teaching, learning, and administration, helping students to solve their educational needs. Evaluated networking and software projects proposed by universities and partners, and provided advice on the best way to design cloud-ready solutions for all community members.
- Main Achievements:
- Products developed
- Followed the entire product life cycle (proposal, technical design, development, reviewing, and publishing) of “Account provisioning for Google Apps” API which is now published in Google’s official Github.
- Developed Groups Generator for Schools Add-On, a tool that creates users, groups, calendars, shared folders, sites, circles and org unit in bulk using a CSV file. Developed using Apps Script.
- Developed multiple integration snippets using Google Apps Script to solve common Education use cases.
- Content generation: Published the Google plugins in Moodle official site and created the content of the section “Systems Integration” in Google for Work Connect platform.
- Integration: More than 100k users provisioned in schools of Africa and America.
- Public speaking: More than 10 public talks/webinars on behalf of Google.
2011 - 2013 Webmaster
- Main Responsibilities: Content management for UNESCO, UNICEF and UNDP agencies.
- Main Achievements:
- Developed a program and system to promote reading which was implemented with government collaboration for all of Mexico’s high school schools. This impacted over 3 million students.
- Information gathering system.
- Digital communication strategy.
2016 Chief Technology Officer
- Main Responsibilities: Leading the bot development team.
- Main Achievements:
- Multiple bots developed for national and international companies.
- The most common bots were in the following areas: Customer service, Human Resources, Computer Vision, E-commerce and Education.
2015 Chief Technology Officer
- Main Responsibilities: Leading the development of a digital concierge service. It is the most used personal assistant in Mexico.
- Main Achievements:
- Designed and developed an administration dashboard in which users, bots, and operators can interact and coexist.
- Implemented AI in chatbots to take orders of common automatable tasks such as flights, reservations, and food delivery.
2013 - 2014 Co-Founder Chief Information Officer
- Main Responsibilities: Technical leadership. Funding raising.
- Main Achievements:
- Developed the biggest cash payment solution in Mexico with a network of 130K points of payment.
- Designed and developed API endpoints and bank bots.
2006 - 2011 Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Among the largest projects was a welfare system that was developed for the government and ran on over 10K mobile devices and benefitted close to 23 million people.
2005 Chief Technology Officer
Managed the network, developed the website, and started the datacenter from scratch and the uptime was 99%.
2002 - 2005 System Administrator
Interconnected 300 institutions and integrated the systems between them.
Tutor for Computer Science and Engineering
2000 - 2011 Worked for 11 years as a CS teacher covering over 15 different topics with
over 30 particular clients and over 200 students.
Skills
- Exceptional understanding of Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Software Architecture, Distributed Computing, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Cloud, Data Analysis/Processing, and UX technologies.
- Programming languages: Python, Javascript, R, HTML5, CSS3, Java, C, C++, PHP, SQL, C#, Ruby, Go, ASP, ActionScript, Visual Basic, and many others.
- Databases: BigQuery, Postgresql, Mysql, MongoDB, Hadoop, SQL Server, DB2, Informix, Orange, SQL and NoSQL engines, BigData tools, and many others.
- Cloud & Distributed computing: AWS, Google Cloud, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Heroku, OpenShift, BlueMix.
- Artificial Intelligence: TensorFlow, Keras, SciKit Learn, Caffe2, Weka, Pytorch, CNTK, DL4J, Numpy, Theano, among others.
- Natural Language Processing: NLTK, spacy, OpeNER, Stanford NLP, luis.ai, api.ai, wit.ai, Watson NLP, among others.
- Networking: Wired and wireless network design, configuration and installation, Firewall configuration, Linux firmware development, among others.
- Hardware: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Adafruit, Microcontrollers, PIC, Wearables, Internet of Things, DIY robots, among others.
- Multimedia: Video and Audio tools, 3D video (stereoscopic) and 3D audio, up to 32 speakers.
- Other: Quantum Programming, Cognitive Computing, Brain Computer Interfaces programming, Drone programming, 3D sensors programming, Entrepreneurship and innovation techniques.
Awards
- National Government, Medal of Excellence EGEL (Awarded to perfect score BS students at national level)
- Google, Google Apps Developer Challenge, 1st place
- Facebook, Facebook Developers World Hack, 1st prize
- Intel, Intel Innovation Latin App, 1st prize
- Cisco, Internet of Everything Challenge, 1st prize
- Forbes, Selection 2017, One of the best articles of the year
- IdeaExplore, Idea of the year 2017, Best idea of 2017
- Best Future Talent, Talent Land Awards, Nominated
Publications
Understanding Chatbot-mediated Task Management
Carlos Toxtli, Justin Cranshaw, Andres Monroy-Hernandez
CHI: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, paper 2018, Canada
Enabling Expert Critique with Chatbots and Micro Guidance
Carlos Toxtli, Joel Chan, Walter Lasecki, Saiph Savage
CI, ACM Collective Intelligence Conference Series , 2018, Switzerland
ExperTwin: An Alter Ego in Cyberspace forKnowledge Workers
C. Toxtli, M. Maurier, C. Flores-Saviaga, S. Singh, T. Bankole, M. Cantley, A. Entrekin, A. Ribot, S. Reddy, R. Reddy
IEEE Smart Data 2018, Halifax, Canada
Micro-Apprenticing: Guiding Volunteers with Online Expert Strangers,
Carlos Toxtli, Claudia Flores-Saviaga, Joel Chan, Walter S. Lasecki, Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Saiph Savage,
UIST: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2017.
LuzDeploy: A Collective Action System for Installing Navigation Infrastructure for Blind People
Cole Gleason, Dragan Ahmetovic, Carlos Toxtli, Saiph Savage, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Chieko Asakawa
W4A (Web For All), paper 2017, Australia
Botsourcer: Crowdsourcing Volunteers for a Political Cause using Online Bots
Carlos Toxtli, Claudia Flores-Saviaga, Saiph Savage.
ICA (International Communication Association), paper 2016, Japan.
BotViz: Data Visualizations for Collaborations With Bots and Volunteers
Carlos Toxtli, Claudia Flores-Saviaga, Flor Aguilar, Alejandra Monroy, William Dai, Juan Pablo Flores, Nedda Amini, Jeerel Herrejon, Shloka Desai, Norma Elva Chavez, Saiph Savage
CSCW: ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, posters 2016.
Visualizing Targeted Online Audiences.
Saiph Savage, Angus Forbes, Carlos Toxtli, Grant McKenzie, Shloka Desai, Tobias Hollerer.
COOP: Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems 2014: Springer. France.
Daemo: A Self- Governed Crowd Marketplace
Stanford Crowd Research Collective, Saiph Savage, Carlos Toxtli, Michael Bernstein.
UIST: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, posters 2015.
A Social Crowd-Controlled Orchestra
Saiph Savage, Norma Elva Chavez, Carlos Toxtli, Salvador Medina, David Alvarez, Tobias Hollerer.
CSCW: ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, posters, 2013.
Nintendo Wiimote for Arm and Wrist Therapy in Stroke Survivors with Upper Extremity Hemipariesis
Ron S. Leder, Gil Azcarate, Rodrigo Savage, Saiph Savage, L. Enrique Sucar, David Reinkensmeyer, Carlos Toxtli, Emilio Roth, Ariel Molina. IEEE Virtual Rehabilitation 2008. Canada.
CiuData: Designing Smart Cities for Conversations between Governments and Citizens
Carlos Toxtli, Saiph Savage
Campus Party, Zapopan, Mexico, Technical report
Botivist: Calling Volunteers to Action using Online Bots
Claudia Flores-Saviaga, Carlos Toxtli, Saiph Savage,
UIST: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2016.
Learnteer: Guided Volunteering for Quality Workand Professional Development
Carlos Toxtli, Claudia Flores-Saviaga, Andres Monroy, Walter Lasecki, Saiph Savage.
UIST: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2016.
Social Media, Civic Engagement, and the Slacktivism Hypothesis: Lessons From Mexico’s “El Bronco”
Philip N. Howard, Saiph Savage, Claudia Flores Saviaga, Carlos Toxtli, Andres Monroy-Hemandez
Journal of International Affairs, Columbia, SIPA
Talks
2018 CHI 2018, “Understanding Chatbot-Mediated Task Management”, Montreal, Canada
HCOMP 2018, “Bots for Crowds”, Zurich, Switzerland
RightsCon 2018, “Understanding Political Manipulation and Botnets”, Toronto, Canada
SmartData 2018, “ExperTwin: An Alter Ego in Cyberspace forKnowledge Workers”, Halifax, Canada
Collective Intelligence 2018, “Enabling Expert Critique with Chatbots and Micro Guidance”, Zurich, Switzerland
UTR, “Education 3.0. Megatrends”, Aguascalientes, Mexico
2017 Campus Party, “Jobs that are already being replaced by bots and the future of Robotic Process Automation”, Guadalajara,Jalisco
Epicentro, “The future of employment in Latin America”, Guadalajara,Jalisco
Wayra, “Technological strategies of accelerated growth for startups”, Mexico City, Mexico
Bots LATAM, “Chatbots + RPA (Robotic Process Automation)”, Mexico City, Mexico
CertificaTIC, “Robotic Process Automation (RPA)”, Virtual Conference
DeKids, “What programming has brought to my life”, Mexico City, Mexico
2016 Colombia 4.0, “The future of programming, predictions to 10 years”, Bogota, Colombia
Campus Party, “The future of programming, predictions to 10 years”, Guadalajara, Mexico
Connect, “The future of programming, predictions to 10 years”, Monterrey, Mexico
ITHH, “The future of programming, predictions to 10 years”, Hidalgo, Mexico
CiComp, “The future of programming, predictions to 10 years”, Baja California, Mexico
SiSel10, “The future of programming, predictions to 10 years”, Sonora, Mexico
Clickfest, “Sentimental computing”, Guanajuato, Mexico
The Data Pub, “Social Media, Civic Engagement, and the Slacktivism Hypothesis”, Mexico City
2015 More than 50 talks delivered this year among which are the following:
TEDx, “Undertaking by knowing your brain”, Mexico, Monterrey
SxSWedu, “SSO overview”, USA, Texas
BigData Day, “Introduction to Data Science”, Mexico, DF
UNAM, “Google’s educational tools”, Mexico, DF
Hittco, “I do not start to see if it works, because it will work I start”, Mexico, Yucatan
UPQ, “Human 2.0 - The future of human augmentation”, Mexico, Queretaro
ITESM, “NeuroPsicoEntrepreneurship”, Mexico, Tamaulipas
ITT, “Growth Hacking”, Mexico, E.M.
ITSCH, “Quantum Programming”, Mexico, Michoacan
IPN, “Google for Students”, Mexico, DF
Startup Chiapas, “Entrepreneurship with innovation”, Mexico, Chiapas
UVQ, “NeuroPsicoEntrepreneurship”, Mexico, Michoacan
Startup Chiapas, “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, Mexico, Chiapas
ITSON, “Digital Strategies”, Mexico, Sonora
DeKids, “The importance of knowing how to program”, Mexico, E.M.
UTHH, “Ok, I’m studing CS, and then?”, Mexico, Hidalgo
Dev.f, “I’m learning how to program, and then?”, Mexico, DF
Chilango Django, “Google Cloud Platform and Python”, Mexico, DF
Nestle, “Tools of the future, today”, Mexico, DF
HackerTalk, “How to innovate with technology”, Mexico, DF
ITT, “Sentimental Computing”, Mexico, E.M.
Dev.f, “Science fiction and programming”, Mexico, DF
Software Guru, “Sentimental computing”, Mexico, DF
UAS, “NeuroPsicoEntrepreneurship”, Mexico, DF
Week of Code, “The Dark Side of Programming”, Mexico, Monterrey
CETIEM, “Startup Entrepreneurship”, Mexico, DF
Techstars, “Marketing for Startups”, Mexico, DF
Entrepreneur Week, “NeuroPsicoEntrepreneurship”, Mexico, DF
Entrepreneur Week, “I do not start to see if it works, because it will work I start”, Mexico, DF
UVAQ, “Agile Development Tools”, Mexico, Michoacan
2014 More than 20 talks delivered this year among which are the following:
COOP 2014, “Visualizing Targeted Audiences”, France, Nice
QBIT, “Quantum Programming”, Mexico, Queretaro
ITT, “Cognitive Computing”, Mexico, E.M.
NI04, “Internet of Everything”, Virtual Conference
SG, “Wearable Devices Programming”, Virtual Conference
Entrepreneur Week, “Innovation on Entrepreneurship”, Mexico, DF
UPN, “Quantum Programming”, Mexico, Guerrero
FLISOL, “BigData for Beginners”, Mexico, Queretaro
FLISOL, "Ubiquitous Computing", Mexico, Queretaro
CECyTEM, "Why study systems?", Mexico, Morelos
ITESM, “Introducing to Javascript”, Mexico, Monterrey
2013 UAEM, "NFC, What is?", Mexico, Morelos
GDG, "All the Google APIs", Mexico, Guadalajara
ITT FLISOL 13, "3D Sensors", Mexico E.M
IPVT SS 13, "Drone Programming", Mexico E.M.
ITESM, "NFC, What is?", Mexico, Monterrey
2012 UIST 2012, "ForcePad web 3D touch", USA, Massachusetts
SG, "HTML5 for mobiles", Virtual Conference,
ITT CCT, "HTML5 VS Flash", Mexico E.M
UV, "Brain Computer Interface", Mexico, Veracruz
2011 ITT SIME 11, "3D Audio and 3D Video", Mexico E.M.
UIST 2011, "TouchMouse DJ Interface", USA California
ITT, FLISOL 11, "Abuntool", Mexico, E.M.
2010 Campus Party, "Hacking for Something Better", Mexico D.F
Press
- Forbes, These are the jobs that will be lost by the fourth industrial revolution , https://www.forbes.com.mx/estos-los-empleos-se-perderan-la-cuarta-revolucion-industrial
- TEDx, Undertaking knowing our brain, https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/16758
- HCI@WVU, Deepiracy: Video piracy detection system by using Longest Common Subsequence and Deep Learning, https://medium.com/hci-wvu/piracy-detection-using-longest-common-subsequence-and-neural-networks-a6f689a541a6
- HCI@WVU, Deepstab: Real-time Video Object Stabilization tool by using Deep Learning, https://medium.com/hci-wvu/face-stabilization-in-videos-using-deep-learning-features-dcfd4be365
- Entrepreneur, He helps children turn their dreams into business, https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/293683
- The Conversation, ‘Making Europe Great Again,’ Trump’s online supporters shift attention to the French election https://theconversation.com/making-europe-great-again-trumps-online-supporters-shift-attention-to-the-french-election-74130
- Government, CiuData: Planning the City with Data, https://datos.gob.mx/blog/ciudata-planeando-la-ciudad-con-datos?category=casos-de-uso&tag=infraestructura
- Theet, WVU researching new ways to enhance online technology, https://www.theet.com/statejournal/wvu-researching-new-ways-to-enhance-online-technology/article_9fe46a8d-7c73-5351-87e7-c75e7bdff506.html
- Columbia, Social Media, Civic Engagement, and the Slacktivism Hypothesis: Lessons From Mexico’s “El Bronco”, https://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/social-media-civic-engagement-and-slacktivism
- UNAM, Transforming Crowdsourcing markets, http://www.ingenieria.unam.mx/comunicacion/mostrar_nota.php?id_noticia=293
- Excelsior, Automation, less employment and new economy, http://www.excelsior.com.mx/hacker/2017/07/07/1174219
- Expansion, Why is complicated for Mexico to have its own Zuckerberg?, http://expansion.mx/tecnologia/2017/03/21/por-que-es-complicado-que-mexico-tenga-su-propio-zuckerberg
- OEI, The fourth industrial revolution in education, http://www.oei.es/historico/divulgacioncientifica/?La-cuarta-revolucion-industrial-en-la-educacion
- The North, Make bots not to be unemployed, http://www.elnorte.com/aplicacioneslibre/articulo/default.aspx?id=1155256&md5=59d2a60f843dfffacbf916a2bf503f47&ta=0dfdbac11765226904c16cb9ad1b2efe
- The North, The safety pins of #CPMX8 http://www.elnorte.com/aplicacioneslibre/articulo/default.aspx?id=1152658&md5=e5ee69139c8cbaa83aeb6987a57907fd&ta=0dfdbac11765226904c16cb9ad1b2efe
- The Informer, Automation will remove jobs to 45 out of 100 workers, https://www.informador.mx/Tecnologia/Automatizacion-quitara-empleos-a-45-de-100-trabajadores-20170705-0036.htm
- The Economist, Accountants remain indispensable: Experts, https://www.eleconomista.com.mx/economia/Contadores-siguen-siendo-indispensables-expertos-20170723-0059.html
- AltoNivel, This is how the bots won the battle of employment to humans, https://www.altonivel.com.mx/asi-fue-como-los-bots-le-ganaron-la-batalla-del-empleo-a-los-humanos/
- SpainNews, Doctors, lawyers and drivers are three of the professionals that can disappear with the arrival of robots, https://espanadiario.es/sociedad/medicos-abogados-y-choferes-son-tres-de-profesionales-que-desaparecer-llegada-de-robots
- Reforma, Make bots to prevent unemployment, http://www.reforma.com/aplicacioneslibre/articulo/default.aspx?id=1155301&md5=52a3cf0b05de216352f0a138727cc839&ta=0dfdbac11765226904c16cb9ad1b2efe
- Milenio, The jobs that the bots will take away, http://www.mileniocampusparty.mx/los-empleos-que-los-bots-te-quitaran/
- Milenio, Arrives at merida the digital entrepreneurship Hittco encounter, http://sipse.com/milenio/llega-merida-encuentro-hittco-emprendimiento-digital-144700.html
- Milenio, Predictions of programming, http://www.mileniocampusparty.mx/predicciones-de-la-programacion/
- The Tomorrow, Develop bots to avoid unemployment, https://www.elmanana.com/hagabotsparanoserdesempleado-3876781.html
- Mural, Prevent unemployment by building bots, http://www.mural.com/aplicaciones/articulo/default.aspx?id=1155301
- IntegraIT, Bots! they win the battle of employment to humans, https://www.integrait.com.mx/global/bots-ganan-la-batalla-del-empleo-los-humanos/
- VeracruzUpToDay, 45% of jobs are replaceable by technology and according to Carlos Toxtli, the fourth industry revolution will make them lose even more, http://veracruzaldia.com/Nota/1499299680
- Education and Culture, The Jobs That Will Be Lost By The Fourth Industrial Revolution, http://www.educacionyculturaaz.com/noticias/los-empleos-que-se-perderan-por-la-cuarta-revolucion-industrial
- Chihuahua’s Newsletter, These are the lost jobs for the revolution industrial revolution http://eldiariodechihuahua.mx/Economia/2017/07/05/estos-son-los-empleos-que-se-perderan-por-la-cuarta-revolucion-industrial/
- Qore, 6 jobs that will be lost by the fourth industrial revolution, http://www.qore.com/noticias/57215/6-empleos-que-se-perderan-por-la-cuarta-revolucion-industrial
- Axopolis, Epicentro arrived and the great adventure of innovating, http://www.axopolis.com/otros-temas/ciencia-y-tecnologia/19089-llego-epicentro-y-la-gran-aventura-de-innovar.html
- Digger, Bit Memories: The hype cycle in today's technology, https://digger.mx/2016/hype-cycle-la-tecnologia-hoy/
- Juares Newsletter, Artificial intelligence weighs more jobs https://www.pressreader.com/mexico/el-diario-de-ju%C3%A1rez/20170708/282754881734917
- Xataka, DeKids: this is how a startup in Mexico wants to prepare children for the future, https://www.xataka.com.mx/otros-1/dekids-asi-es-como-un-startup-de-mexico-quiere-preparar-a-los-ninos-para-el-futuro
- CiComp, Recent advances in Computational Sciences, https://www.amazon.com/Avances-recientes-Ciencias-Computacionales-Spanish/dp/1540303969
- TodayInTech, Study on "Top Facebook Profile Influencers" in the topics of entrepreneurship and technology, http://hoyentec.com/tecnologia/top-facebook-profile-influencers/
- World Mates, Traveling and working, when the term vacations disappears, https://worldmatesblog.wordpress.com/tag/carlos-toxtli/
- World Contact, Intel promotes Mexican talent with the 'App Latina' contest, http://mundocontact.com/intel-impulsa-al-talento-mexicano-con-el-concurso-app-latina/
- Learn Watch, Undertaking knowing our brain https://learn.watch/emprender-conociendo-nuestro-cerebro-carlos-toxtli-hernandez-tedxtecdemonterrey/
- Medium, Machine Learning in JavaScript, https://medium.com/@jesusemelendezm/aprendizaje-de-m%C3%A1quinas-machine-learning-en-javascript-2bcbae44766b
- Medium, Carlos Toxtli and DeKids, bringing the world of programming closer to the little ones, https://medium.com/@DeKidsMx/martes-23-de-junio-2015-7ab752455ce4
- Ventura MX, ComproPago closed investment for 200k USD; look for 100k USD more, http://venturamexico.com/2014/10/compropago-cerro-inversion-por-200-mil-dolares-busca-100-mil-mas/
- Direct Line, Presenting the hackers elite in Campus Party, http://www.lineadirectaportal.com/modulos/imprimir.php?noticia=44898
- Universal, App with Mexican ingenuity, http://archivo.eluniversal.com.mx/articulos/76625.html
- The Financial, Mexican develops winning App for Google, http://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/tech/mexicano-desarrolla-app-ganadora-para-google.html
- Laureate, "Google Drive Graphic Explorer", an application created by carlos toxtli, uvm student, won the first place internationally, http://laureate-comunicacion.com/prensa/google-drive-graphic-explorer-aplicacion-creada-por-carlos-toxtli-estudiante-de-la-uvm/
- Software Guru, Interview with Carlos Toxtli, one of the winners of Google Apps https://sg.com.mx/buzz/entrevista-carlos-toxtli-uno-los-ganadores-del-google-apps-develper-challengue-2012#.Wfu_QROPJE4
Academic and Professional Projects
2000 - 2013 More than 100 projects among which are the following:
ComproPago (Startup,HTML5,Ruby,node.js,Bootstrap)
Government “Oportunidades” System (Architect, Java Oracle)
Behavioral Oriented Trading Robot, semantic bot (Startup,Matlab)
Social Bot (Developer, C#)
Yellow Pages Bot (Developer, C#)
Forecasts Melate Bot (Developer, PHP consola)
SocialQuery Social Capital managment (Research,HTML5,Facebook,Linkedin)
SIE (Parking system) (Architect, AIR)
Ideanimate (Developer,node.js,MongoDB,isomorphic javascript)
FitChallenge Social weight loss (Startup,HTML5,Android,iOS)
7eleven Augmented Reality Finder (Contest,AR,7Eleven APIs,iOS)
Parking system that uses telemetry (Developer, PHP con Mysql)
Tracking System for courier company (Developer, PHP con Mysql)
Web Based Business intelligence system (Developer, Javascript webservice client)
System for the control of Influenza for the government (Developer, ASP MSSQL)
E-Learning platform (Project Manager, Java MSSQL)
Search Engine Optimization services (Implementer, SEO)
Electronic billing system (Developer,Java,Spring,Struts,Oracle)
System for United Nations to encourage reading (Developer,Naciones Unidas,PHP,Abuntool)
Google Drive Graphic Explorer (Contest,HTML5, Google API)
YoutubeMaps, NASA Contest (Contest,HTML5,NASA APIs)
PagaSitio (Developer,HTTP 1.1, PHP)
MyCurriculum, resumes platform (Startup, HTML5)
Robotic Contest 2009 (Developer, C para micro controladores)
Intelligent Being Oriented Programming paradigm (Developer, C )
Neural networks for room allocation (Developer, Java)
Categorization of unstructured data (Developer, Machine Learning)
Plate recognition by vision (Developer,C OpenCV)
Banking robot, automated bank (Startup,Sikuli,python,java)
Vulnerability Scan for UNAM (Annalist, WhiteHat)
Creating audio format for 32 speakers (Inventor, Parallel Computation)
Experimental 3D Laboratory (Owner,32 speakers 3d audio and 3D video)
Stereoscopic 3D Videos production (Editor, Blender, Stereoscopic)
Videogames XBox 360 and Wii (Developer, XNA DirectX Flash API)
Easy Context Menu Tools (Developer, C# Windows Shell)
Virtual Hardware Streaming (Developer, C++)
Multitouch DJ interface (Contest, Microsoft UIST, .NET)
Collection system NEXTEL (Developer, J2ME)
Taxis Airport System for the Mexican International Airport (Developer, C# CF)
Bus tickets system (Developer, C# Compact Framework)
Abuntool (MultiPlatform Generator) (Founder,PHP,Javascript,iOS,Android,Genetic Algorithms)
Issuing ticket machine Driver (Developer, Python)
Bluetooth bomber (Developer, Python)
Biometric security system (Developer, Java)
Magnetic cards security system (Developer, Python)
System-tone telephone system (Developer, Visual Basic)
ToxCore ultraligth linux distribution (Inventor, TinyCore)
Gyroscopic file sharing (Contest,HTML5, Synaptics API)
Interaculta, NUI cultural system (Startup,Kinect,OpenNI)
Router with Linux embedded customization (Developer, Linksys)
Mobile database engine (Developer, J2ME)
Mysql UDF Serial port controller (Developer, Mysql API)
Wan2Tree, non centralized network driver (Developer,Java, Microsoft Pastry)
Service
- IUI, CSCW, CHI reviewer
- CHI volunteer
- Mega Missions
- Startup Weekend mentor, judge and volunteer.
- Startup Weekend Monterrey
- Startup Weekend Zapopan
- Startup Weekend Mexico City @ ITAM
- Startup Weekend Monterrey @ UANL
- Startup Weekend San Luis Potosi
- Startup Weekend International Ventures Mexico City
- Startup Weekend Guadalajara Artificial Intelligence Edition
Hobbies
- Music composition: Stereo (2 channels), 5.1 (6 channels), 7.1 (8 channels), 28.4 channels (32 channels)
- Traveling
- Countries visited: Austria, Belgium, Belize, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Develop personal projects and experiments.
- Hiking
Latest news
Presenting “Bots for Crowds” at HCOMP 2018 , Zurich, Switzerland |
Attending COMO (Content Moderation at Scale), Washington, USA |
