Carlos Olguin

Biography

Carlos is an interdisciplinary designer with more than 13 years of combined experience in domains such as design tools for 2D and 3D modeling, social learning, GIS, risk management, network service brokerage, web search experience, online emergent social phenomena, and more recently systems biology.

Since 2006 Carlos joined Autodesk as a senior product designer. In his new role within Autodesk Research, he leads a new initiative to understand and exploit the intersection of (bio)nanotechnology with 3D visualization, simulation, and design.

Since 2005, Carlos started to study on the side Systems Biology first at Chalmers University in Sweden and since 2008 at Columbia University. Before that, in 2001 Carlos obtained a Master of Science in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon. He holds a B.Sc. in Electronics and Communications from Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Mexico). Carlos has also studied telecommunications at the Institute National des Telecommunications in Evry, France.