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.

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

West Virginia University

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.

GitHub

2017 - present GitHub Campus Expert

Main Responsibilities:

Enrich technology communities.

Main Achievements:

Empower developers.

Microsoft Research + AI

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.

Google

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.

Google

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.

United Nations

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.

Kosmos

2017 Research and Development Manager

Main Responsibilities: Innovation lab coordination
Main Achievements:

Design of security tools based on Artificial Intelligence
Automation of the processes involved in credit granting.

Thincrs

2017 Chief Technology Officer

Main Responsibilities: Leading the platform development team.
Main Achievements:

Design and development of the Learning Management System.
Design and development of the Talent Acquisition System

YBot Studio

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.

HolaGus

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.

ComproPago

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.

Aztek Technologies

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.

Real Estate Group

2005 Chief Technology Officer

Managed the network, developed the website, and started the datacenter from scratch and the uptime was 99%.

Anahuac University

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

Scientific

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

META-GIG: Designing Platforms that Empower Anyone to Design and Create Crowd Markets
Carlos Toxtli, Juan Pablo Castillo, Benjamin V. Hanraha, Kotaro Hara, Chris Callison-Burch, Jeffrey Bigham, Kristy Milland, Abigail Adams, Saiph Savage

The Crowd Markets Workers and Requesters Imagine
Carlos Toxtli, Juan Pablo Castillo, Alberto Campos, Benjamin V. Hanraha, Kotaro Hara, Chris Callison-Burch, Jeffrey Bigham, Kristy Milland, Abigail Adams, Saiph Savage

Using Bots with Micro-Guidance for Expert Online Critique
Carlos Toxtli, Joel Chan, Walter Lasecki, Saiph Savage

Using Bots and Experts to Facilitate Online Tutorials
Carlos Toxtli, Joel Chan, Walter Lasecki, Saiph Savage

Enabling Expert Critique at Scale with Chatbots and Micro Guidance
Carlos Toxtli, Joel Chan, Walter Lasecki, Saiph Savage

Posts

Hum2Song Multi-track Polyphonic Music Generation from Voice Melody Transcription with Neural Networks,
Carlos Toxtli
Medium

Deepiracy: Video piracy detection system by using Longest Common Subsequence and Deep Learning,
Carlos Toxtli, Claudia Flores-Saviaga
HCI@WVU

Deepstab: Real-time Video Object Stabilization tool by using Deep Learning
Carlos Toxtli, Claudia Flores-Saviaga
HCI@WVU

ExperTwin: An Alter Ego in Cyberspace for Knowledge Workers
Carlos Toxtli, Claudia Flores-Saviaga, Marco Maurier, Amandine Ribot, Temitayo Samson Bankole, Alexander Entrekin, Michael Cantley, Salvi Singh, Sumitra Reddy, Yenumula. V. Reddy.
HCI@WVU

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

BT7, “Artificial Intelligence From Zero To Hero”, Lima, Peru

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
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)

Demos

Hum2Song : AI-powered web application that is able to compose the musical accompaniment of a melody produced by a human voice. This tool is powered by new models ported to tensorflow.js and existing Google Magenta models #MadeWithMagenta.

VR-Web-3D-News-Visualization : WebGL application that is able to gather tech news from different sources and show them structured on different 3D arrangements. This tool supports VR headsets for an immersive experience.

Minimum-Fault-Detection : This tool let users to visualize all the possible failures that can happen on an interconnected set of componentes.

Service

IUI, CSCW, CHI reviewer
CHI volunteer
Mega Missions
Startup Weekend mentor, judge and volunteer.

StartupBus

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, El Salvador, Estonia, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, 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 “ExperTwin: An Alter Ego in the Cyberspace for Knowledge Workers” at SmartData 2018, Halifax, Nova Scotia	Presenting “Bots for Crowds” at HCOMP 2018 , Zurich, Switzerland	Presenting “Enabling Expert Critique with Chatbots and Micro Guidance” at Collective Intelligence 2018, Zurich, Switzerland


Presenting at RightsCon, Toronto, Canada	Presenting at CHI, Montreal Canada	Attending COMO (Content Moderation at Scale), Washington, USA