Graduate Research Assistant. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Phone: +1 (404) 385-6602 E-Mail(s): carlos.nieto@gatech.edu
Homepage: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~cnieto6
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Perform Research on the areas of mobile robots autonomous navigation, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) in outdoor and indoor environments, optimal motion planning and computer vision (computation of visual correspondence, object recognition, detection and tracking).
EDUCATION
Georgia Institute of Technology (GATECH)
PhD. Student on Computer Science (08/08 - Present)
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Estado de México (ITESM-CEM).
Bachelor of Science in Electronics Systems Engineering. May 2007.
Universidad del Tepeyac, Tecnológico Preuniversitario. D.F., Mexico.
English Teacher’s Training Course.
Course Certified by Secretaria de Educación Pública (SEP). Register Number 680.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
(08/08 – Present) Digital Conservation: Capturing, Creating, and Visualizing Endangered Natural Ecosystems, GATECH
Graduate Research Assistant
Process the captured data and build a 3D model.
Advisor: Frank Dellaert.
(08/06 – 08/08) Tactical Mobile Robotics and Rescue Research Group, ITESM-CEM
Team & Group Leader
Leader of the Nautilus Team for the Robot Rescue League.
(08/06 – 08/08) Artificial Vision and Mobile Robotics Laboratory, ITESM-CEM
Research Engineer
Research on computer vision and mobile robotics.
Person in charge of the Mobile Robotics, Artificial Vision and Manipulators Laboratories.
(08/03 – 08/06) Mechatronics Research Center, ITESM-CEM.
Research Assistant.
Development of Computer Vision and Mobile Robots Applications.
Fully supported by Sensor-Based Robotics project. (NSF-CONACyT 36001-A) and
Robotics Research Group at ITESM-CEM (2167-CCEM-0302-07).
(08/06 – Present) Mechatronics Research Center, ITESM-CEM.
Research Assistant.
Solving Visibility-based Mobile Robotic Tasks Using Minimal Representation.
Associate Researcher Steven LaValle. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA.
Dr. Rafael Murrieta-Cid, Center for Research in Mathematics (CIMAT), Mexico.
Fully Supported by NSF-CONACyT 36003-A.
(01/05 – 08/06) Mechatronics Research Center, ITESM-CEM.
Research Assistant.
Spatial Intelligence for Virtual Agents.
Associate researchers: Dr. Jean Paul Laumond, LAAS /CNRS, France.
Professor Seth Hutchinson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA.,
Dr. Rafael Murrieta-Cid, Center for Research in Mathematics (CIMAT), Mexico.
Fully supported by LAFMI.
(06/05 – 12/05) Computer Science Department, Cornell University Ithaca, NY. USA.
Full Time Research Intern.
Development of some Computer Vision Algorithms in Spatial Structures for People Recognition.
Advisor: Professor Daniel Huttenlocher.

(09/05) Computer Graphics Research, ITESM-MOR & ITESM-CEM.
Research Assistant.
Development and Optimize on Collaborative and Modular Virtual Robotics Environment (CMVRE) Using an Object
Oriented Architecture OODVR++ System.
Fully supported by REDII-CONACYT
JOB EXPERIENCE
(05/07-10/07) CeDIAM Centro de Desarrollo para la Industria Automotriz en México
Senior Systems Administrator
Development and Updating the CeDIAM and AKJ Conference websites (JSP & LAMP).
(08/07) Aseguradora Patrimonial S.A.
IT Developer Engineer Consultant
Development of an online auction vehicles website. (JSP & MySQL)
08/(03,04,05,06) AKJ Automotive Mexico Conference
Development of the conferences' registration website (JSP & LAMP).
(10/04) Fifth IEEE Latin American Robotics Contest (LARC 2004)
Development of the contest's registration website. (JSP & MySQL)
CERTIFIED COURSES TAKEN
CTE Data Structures in C++.
CCNA CISCO.
Solaris SUN Certified System Administrator.
(Carnegie Mellon Technology Education)
(Networks, Modules I to IV)
(Modules I to IV)
PUBLICATIONS
Edited Book Chapters:
Moisés Alencastre-Miranda, Lourdes Muñoz-Gómez, Carlos Nieto-Granda, Isaac Rudomín and Ricardo Swain-Oropeza.
"A Multi-Robot-Multi-Operator Collaborative Virtual Environment". Published in Davide Brugali, "Software Engineering for Experimental Robotics". Springer Tracts on Advanced Robotics (STAR Series), 2006.
Refereed Journals Articles:
Sandra Díaz, Carlos Nieto-Granda, Marissa Díaz, Ricardo Swain-Oropeza, “Biofeedback Agents for Electromyocontroled
Teleoperated Robots”. Research on Computing Science. Advances in Artificial Intelligence Applications.
ISSN 1665-9899. Vol. 17. pp. 243-252.
Moisés Alencastre-Miranda, Lourdes Muñoz-Gómez, Ricardo Swain-Oropeza, Carlos Nieto-Granda, "Color-Image
Classification using MRF’s for an Outdoor Mobile Robot". Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.
ISSN: 1690-4524.
Refereed Conferences Articles:
Carlos Nieto-Granda, Carlos Camargo-Rosas, Joseph Cazares-Davalos, Demetrio Galindez-Olascoaga, Diego Chavez-
Muñoz, Rodrigo Guerrero-Mulia, Alejandro Pineda-Olivares, Ricardo Swain-Oropeza. “Nautilus Robot Rescue League
Team”. Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE Latin American Symposium (LARS 2007). ISBN Pending. Monterrey, Mexico.
Carlos Nieto-Granda, Demetrio Galindez-Olascoaga, Diego Chavez-Muñoz, Carlos Camargo-Rosas, Aldo Arriaga-Orta .
“KAUIL. Design of An All Terrain Mobile Robot for Indoor and Outdoor Search and Rescue Tasks”. To be submitted to
IEEE/RSJ 2008 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.
Carlos Nieto-Granda, Sandra Díaz-Pier, Carlos Ortega-Otero, Ricardo Swain-Oropeza, “Traducing Software Voice-Pattern-
Detection Applications Into Hardware Systems”. Proceedings of the XV International Conference on Electronics,
Communications and Computers (CONIELECOMP 2005). ISBN 0-7695-2283-1. IEEE Computer Society Order Number
P2283, pp 195-200. Puebla, Mexico.
Carlos Nieto, Sandra Díaz, Marissa Díaz, Fernando Godinez, “The Forbidden: Team Description Paper”. Proceedings of the
First IEEE Latin American Symposium (LARS 2004). ISBN 970-94377-0-4, IEEE,pp. 125-127. Mexico City, Mexico.

Moisés Alencastre-Miranda, Lourdes Muñoz-Gómez, Ricardo Swain-Oropeza, Carlos Nieto-Granda, "Color-Image
Classification using MRF’s for an Outdoor Mobile Robot". Proceedings of the 8th World Multiconference on Systemics,
Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2004). ISBN 980-6560-13-2, Vol. VIII, pp. 165-171. Orlando, USA. (Best paper award)
MAIN HONORS AND AWARDS
College of Computing Scholarship for Graduate Studies
College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2007) Travel Support
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS).
Reviewer for the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and
Automation (ICRA 2007).
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS).
Full Scholarship for the Second Mexican Summer School on Quantum
Computation and Quantum Information (2007)
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Estado de México.
Teamwork Judge for the 2006 First Lego League Regional Tournament.
Estado de México, México.
Provost Research Fellowship. College of Engineering, Sibley School of
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Cornell University (CU). Ithaca, New York. USA.
Full Scholarship for the Fifth Summer School on Image and Robotics (SSIR 2004).
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA).
Unité de Recherche Sophia Antipolis. France.
MEMBERSHIPS
IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Algorithms for Planning and Control of Robot Motion.
IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Software Engineering for Robotics Automation.
IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Safety Security and Rescue Robotics.
IEEE RAS Professional Member.
SKILLS
Platforms:
Programming languages:
Linux*, Solaris*, Windows95-98-NT-2000-XP*. (*Administrator)
Java, J2ME, C#, C/C++, Scheme, XML, HTML, JavaScript VHDL (Hardware),
Assembler (Intel, Motorola and ATMEL).
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP), Dreamweaver.
Databases and web design:
Robotics and vision libraries:
Analysis:
Aria, OpenCV, XVision, KineoWorks, Saphira, LEDA, Motion Strategy Library,
Motion Planning Kit, Tekkotsu, Open-R-SDK, OODVR++.
Mathematica, MathCAD, Maple, MatLab.
Electronics design:
Graphic libraries:
Protel DXP, Circuit Maker, Orcad (Pspice).
OpenGL, GLUI, GLUT, FreeGlut, GTK+, Glade.
Office and document processing: Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, LaTeX, Adobe Acrobat.
Networks:
Languages:
Networks’ configuration, CISCO´s Routers and Switches.
English (Advanced), German (Basic) & French (Read only).
HOBBIES AND INTERESTS
Soccer, kendo, frisbee, reading, photography, international and national travel, astronomy, hacking electronics devices, listen and watch international media (i.e. movies, music, audio books, etc), and learning foreign languages.
References Available Upon Request