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Bio
Carlos Toxtli is currently a Computer Science Ph.D. student where he is researching intelligent tools and bots to improve the future of crowd work. In the past, he has worked at Microsoft Research, Google, and the United Nations where he developed innovative tools to empower people through technology. His research has been published in top venues such as ACM CHI and covered by news outlets. His passion for using AI to help individuals grow at their job has led him to become a tech evangelist facilitating the continuous learning of adults. He has given more than one hundred talks in conferences around the world. He is also a serial entrepreneur, creating multiple startups focused on fin-tech, e-commerce, automation, bots, and education. Artificial Intelligence portfolio
I have implemented Artificial Intelligence techniques in the following areas: - Natural Language Processing
- MATT: Bot that delivers micro-tutorials via chat and retrieves feedback from experts.
- TaskBot: Research and development of bot that helps teams to delegate tasks.
- HolaGus: Development of a chatbot platform for Whatsapp and Facebook.
- YBot Studio: Co-founded a company for the development of customized chatbots.
- DeepStab: Real-time Video Object Stabilization tool by using Deep Learning
- DeepPiracy: Video piracy detection system by using Longest Common Subsequence and Deep Learning,
- Multimodal Analysis for emotion recognition
- MultiAffect: Reproducible Research Frameworkfor Multimodal Video Categorization and Regression Tasks
- Drug Discovery: School of AI fellowship advisor of a drug discovery machine learning algorithm by using Quantum Computing.
- AutomEditor: Video blooper recognition and localization for automatic monologue video editing
- Hum2Song: Multi-track Polyphonic Music Generation from Voice Melody Transcription with Neural Networks,
- UnfairReviews: System that detects inaccurate and unfair reviews given to gig workers.
- ID Extraction and validation
- Kosmos: Design and development of Machine VIsion algorithms to validate identity.
- ExpertTwin: Enhanced workspace by an AI agent that provides content to knowledge workers.
- Robotic Process Automation
- Bots Workflow Designer: Finite State Machine that orchestrates web crawlers.
- Crawlers: MicroVolunteering , SiteJabber , FreeMIDI , Facebook Fan Page Extractor , Facebook Profile Extractor , Twitter Content Deleter , Twitter Account Creator , Twitter Stream , Linkedin Extractor , Linkedin Inviter Linkedin Deleter , Crawler Messaging (Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin) , News Crawler , Linkedin Feed Extractor , App Stores Reviews Extractor , Reddit Subreddits Scraper , Twitter Tweets Scraper , among others.
- Interactive notebooks: Notebooks adapted to run in Google Colaboratory
- Supervised Learning plots , Unsupervised Learning plots , Machine Learning Basic concepts 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 , Linear Regression 1 & 2 & 3 , Decision Trees 1 , Random Forest 1 & 2 & 3 & , Naive Bayes 1 & 2 , k-Nearest Neighbor 1 & 2 , k-Means 1 & 2 & 3 , Support Vector Machines 1 , Logistic Regression 1 & 2 & 3 , Perceptron 1 , Machine Learning Overview 1 , Principal , Component Analysis 1 & 2 , Topic modeling 1 , GPU testing 1 , Artificial Neural Networks from scratch 1 , ANN Activation functions 1 , ANN Loss functions 1 , ANN Gradients 1 & 2 , ANN Optimizers 1 , ANN Decision Boundaries 1 , ANN Overfitting 1 & 2 , ANN Regularization 1 , Multi-Layer Perceptron 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 , Convolutional Neural Networks 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 & 8 & 9 , CNN from scratch 1 , Data Augmentation 1 & 2 & 3 , Recurrent Neural Networks 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 , Autoencoders 1 , Generative Adversarial Networks 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 , Ensembles 1 & 2 , AutoML 1 & 2 & 3 , Reinforcement Learning 1 & 2 & 3
- Robotic Process Automation
- Compropago: Co-founded a platform that automates the payment gateway and detects malicious transactions.
- Aztek: Co-founded a company that automates parking, the IoT devices are able to detect irregular behaviors.
- Siamese Networks , SqueezeNet , VGG , RBF , AutoEncoders , AlexNet , LeNet , PCA , K means , XOR Binary Parity , XOR Decision Regions , Word2Vec , among others.
Education
West Virginia University (WVU) Research Visiting Scholar and Ph.D. Student International University Center (CUIN) Professor Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) Master in Innovation and Technological Entrepreneurship IEDE Business School, European University of Madrid Master of Business Administration University of the Valley of Mexico (UVM) BS in Computer Systems Management National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) BS in Computer Engineering
Professional Experience
 West Virginia University
Research Visiting Scholar & Graduate Research Assistant - The design, development and evaluation of bot-mediated systems.
- Publish research papers.
- Development of Artificial Intelligence projects: DeepStab, DeepPiracy, Hum2Song, ExpertTwin, MultiAffect, and AutomEditor.
- MATT: Bot that delivers micro-tutorials via chat and retrieves feedback from experts.
- Meta Gig: A Sharing Economy 2.0 platform that enables non-technical people to create sharing economy platforms.
- Reputation Agent: System that detects inaccurate reviews given to gig workers.
- Learnteer: Bot that helps learners develop new skills through volunteering.
- SocialVaccines: Platform that performs contained attacks and delivers security courses to vulnerable people.
 Twitch (Amazon)
Twitch Research Fellow - Crowd + AI powered tools that can help Twitch moderators to fight disinformation & hate speech in live streams.
 GitHub (Microsoft)
GitHub Campus Expert - Enrich technology communities.
 School of AI
AI Dean & Research Advisor - Promote AI technologies in the region
- Building a community and teaching about AI implementation
 Microsoft Research + AI
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
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 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:
- 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
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
Chief Technology Officer - Main Responsibilities: Innovation lab coordination
- Main Achievements:
- Design of security tools based on Artificial Intelligence
- Automation of the processes involved in credit granting.
 Thincrs
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
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
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
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
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
Chief Technology Officer Managed the network, developed the website, and started the datacenter from scratch and the uptime was 99%.
 Anahuac University
System Administrator Interconnected 300 institutions and integrated the systems between them.
 Computer Science and Engineering Teacher
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. RNN, CNN, multiple deep learning algorithms for multimodal image, video, audio and text features.
- 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
PublicationsScientific
Understanding Chatbot-mediated Task Management
Carlos Toxtli, Justin Cranshaw, Andres Monroy-Hernandez
CHI: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, paper 2018, Canada. Reputation Agent: Prompting Fair Reviews in Gig Markets
Carlos Toxtli, Angela Richmond, Saiph Savage
The Web Conference, 2020, Taipei, Taiwan Becoming the Super Turker: Following Transparency Criteria for Higher Wages
Saiph Savage, Chun Wei Chiang, Susumu Saito, Carlos Toxtli, and Jeffrey Bigham
The Web Conference, 2020, Taipei, Taiwan Understanding the Crowd Markets that 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
CI, ACM Collective Intelligence Conference Series , 2019, Pittsburgh Enabling Expert Critique at Scale with Chatbots and Micro Guidance
Carlos Toxtli and Saiph Savage
Advances in Computer-Human Interactions, 2020, Valencia, Spain 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. MultiAffect: Reproducible Research Framework for Multimodal Video Classification and Regression Tasks
Carlos Toxtli, Salvador Medina, Saiph Savage
OMGBook2019: Neural and Machine Learning for Emotion and Empathy Recognition Migrating from Classical Machine Learning to Quantum Machine Learning: an overview and case study on Drug Discovery
Yash Patel, Carlos Toxtli
School of AI, Research Fellowship 2019 AutomEditor: Video blooper recognition and localization for automatic monologue video editing
Carlos Toxtli, Chun-Wei Chiang, Saiph Savage 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 Experimental Study of User Interactions with Social Media Spam
Thomas Kyankoa, Katerina Goseva-Popstojanovaa, Carlos Toxtli, 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 AutomEditor: Video blooper recognition and localization for automatic monologue video editing Carlos Toxtli
HCI@WVU Multimodal Emotion Recognition at utterance level by using spatio-temporal feature fusion of Body poses, Face gestures, Text, and Audio Features Carlos Toxtli
SlideShare 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 Docs2Web turns any Google Docs document into a modern Website
Carlos Toxtli
Medium Multimodal spatio-temporal action recognition applied to video bloopers for automatic video editing
Carlos Toxtli
Reproducible academic publication, In progress Talks
2019 CI 2019, “Understanding the Crowd Markets that Workers and Requesters Imagine”, Pittsburgh, USA City.AI, “Changing paradigms in AI prototyping”, New York, USA DL. “Multimodal Affect Recognition at utterance-level with spatio-temporal feature fusion by using Face, Audio, Text [,and Body] features”, Morgantown, USA DL, “AutomEditor: Video blooper recognition and localization for automatic monologue video editing”, Morgantown, USA MyBotsLATAM, “Implementing Bots in real-world settings”, Online SISeI,“How to implement Artificial Intelligence solutions”, Culiacan, Mexico RIIAA, “AI for the future of work”, Mexico City PIURA, “Seminar on Artificial Intelligence”, Lima, Peru Ford Ingenious Minds, “Bots in Robotic Process Automation”, Mexico City
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 CI 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
- TEDx, Undertaking knowing our brain
- The Conversation, ‘Making Europe Great Again,’ Trump’s online supporters shift attention to the French election
- Theet, WVU researching new ways to enhance online technology
- Entrepreneur, He helps children turn their dreams into business
- Columbia, Social Media, Civic Engagement, and the Slacktivism Hypothesis: Lessons From Mexico’s “El Bronco”
- The Economist, Accountants remain indispensable: Experts
- Laureate, "Google Drive Graphic Explorer", an application created by carlos toxtli, uvm student, won the first place internationally
- Software Guru, Interview with Carlos Toxtli, one of the winners of Google Apps
- The Financial, Mexican develops winning App for Google
- Xataka, DeKids: this is how a startup in Mexico wants to prepare children for the future
- Chatbot Planet, Real-time Video Object Stabilization tool by using Deep Learning
- Merca 2.0, What is the impact of Chatbots on Human Resources? I, II
- The Informer, Automation will remove jobs to 45 out of 100 workers
- TodayInTech, Study on "Top Facebook Profile Influencers" in the topics of entrepreneurship and technology
- SpainNews, Doctors, lawyers and drivers are three of the professionals that can disappear with the arrival of robots
- Government, CiuData: Planning the City with Data
- UNAM, Transforming Crowdsourcing markets
- Universal, DeKids encourages children to undertake
- Excelsior, Automation, less employment and new economy
- Expansion, Why is complicated for Mexico to have its own Zuckerberg?
- OEI, The fourth industrial revolution in education
- The North, Make bots not to be unemployed
- The North, The safety pins of #CPMX8
- AltoNivel, This is how the bots won the battle of employment to humans
- Reforma, Make bots to prevent unemployment
- Milenio, The jobs that the bots will take away
- Milenio, Arrives at merida the digital entrepreneurship Hittco encounter
- Milenio, Predictions of programming
- The Tomorrow, Develop bots to avoid unemployment
- Mural, Prevent unemployment by building bots
- IntegraIT, Bots! they win the battle of employment to humans
- Chatbot Planet, Video piracy detection system by using LCS and Deep Learning
- Education and Culture, The Jobs That Will Be Lost By The Fourth Industrial Revolution
- Qore, 6 jobs that will be lost by the fourth industrial revolution
- Axopolis, Epicentro arrived and the great adventure of innovating
- Digger, Bit Memories: The hype cycle in today's technology
- CiComp, Recent advances in Computational Sciences
- World Mates, Traveling and working, when the term vacations disappears
- World Contact, Intel promotes Mexican talent with the 'App Latina' contest
- Learn Watch, Undertaking knowing our brain
- Medium, Machine Learning in JavaScript
- Medium, Carlos Toxtli and DeKids, bringing the world of programming closer to the little ones
- Ventura MX, ComproPago closed investment for 200k USD; look for 100k USD more
- Direct Line, Presenting the hackers elite in Campus Party,
- Universal, App with Mexican ingenuity
- Chihuahua’s Newsletter, These are the lost jobs for the revolution industrial revolution
- VeracruzUpToDay, 45% of jobs are replaceable by technology and according to Carlos Toxtli, the fourth industry revolution will make them lose even more,
- Juarez Newsletter, Artificial intelligence weighs more jobs
Academic and Professional Projects2000 - 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.
MultiAffect : Reproducible Research Framework for Multimodal Affect and Action Recognition at Utterance-Level with Spatio-Temporal Feature Fusion by using Face, Instantaneous Emotions, Audio, Text, and Body Features
AutomEditor: AutomEditor is an AI-based video editor that helps video bloggers to remove bloopers automatically. It uses multimodal Spatio-temporal blooper recognition and localization approaches. The models were trained in Keras and integrate feature fusion techniques from the face, body gestures (skeleton), emotions progression, and audio features.
Docs2Web : Online tool that turns any Google Docs document into a modern website. This is especially helpful for documents that constantly change, or collaborative documents where multiple people update them.
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 lets users to visualize all the possible failures that can happen on an interconnected set of components.
Benchmark of web-based face detectors: This is a collection of web-based face detectors that can be implemented statically. These are the cleanest implementations of existing technologies that lets users to focus on their processing and not in the camera implementation component.
Google Play and App Store reviews downloader: This is an online tool that downloads the reviews from mobile applications from Google and Apple stores. This is an example of how we can run a web browser within a notebook to navigate a website and extract information. It is also an updatable notebook link that does not need to change the code every time that the repository is updated.
Quantum Machine Learning Interactive Paper: This interactive paper shows how people can migrate classical algorithms to equivalent quantum approaches. It showcases a case study based on Drug Discovery in which it describes the required processes to adapt existing algorithms.
Text Classification AI Workshop: This Jupyter notebook explains how to extract information from the internet and how to train different types of text classification models. The given example gives an idea of how to detect fairness in reviews. At the end, it provides a playground to try with input data.
Awesome Machine Learning Jupyter Notebooks for Colab: This is a curated list of Machine Learning and Deep Learning notebooks that are adapted to run in Google Colaboratory. Service
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
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