Gender

Male

Location

Cambridge, MA

About Me:

I was born and raised in Colombia, moved to the US in 1997, lived in Miami, FL for many years until I entered college. I graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2011, studying Aerospace Engineering. I'm currently an Aerospace Electrical Engineer at Aurora Flight Sciences, in Cambridge, MA. My main interests lie in embedded systems hardware/software for aeronautical/astronautical systems (control, communication, navigation, sensing, etc.). It sounds like a computer engineer's job, but I have a strong passion and fascination for aircraft, rockets, satellites, space... hence my choice of degree =)

Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I took an interest in UAV drones after a research internship in Madrid, Spain, at the Polytecnic University of Madrid (UPM), involving the implementation of computer vision algorithms on quadcopters and octorotor UAVs for autonomous navigation and control. Seeing how expensive commercial ready-to-fly systems are, I'd rather go for the more economic and more thrilling route of a DIY quadrotor project, which I intend to use for aerial photography.

Hometown:

Barranquilla, Colombia