About Mariano

I was born and raised in Mexico. I graduated with honors from the Mexican Naval Academy in 1996 and did a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering (with distinction) and an Electrical Engineer's Degree at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA, from 2001 to 2004, where I worked under Dr. Isaac Kaminer on autonomous landing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). After graduating from the NPS, I worked for two and a half years at a research center in Mexico as the engineer-in-charge in two embedded systems projects: - The "Cancer" project which consisted in the automation of a microscope, a hardware-software interface, and a Database front-end, to support the Naval Hospital's need to file digital pictures of pathological cases, specifically those related to cervical cancer. - The "Fiber Optic Gyro", which was related with a fiber optic gyro that was being developed for the Mexican Navy. I specifically worked on the microcontroller implementation of the speed control for a spinning unit as well as the decoding and processing of the main sensor's output. During the Summer of 2007 I designed and developed a CAN Controlled Servo with Optional Contactless Magnetic Rotary Encoder Module which won a Distinctive Excellence award during the Circuit Cellar - Microchip 2007 Embedded Control Design Contest. During the Fall of 2007 I worked with David Ilstrup on a project on Aerial Photography Using a Nokia N95 which worked out really nice. You can read all about the project at the class website. During the Summer of 2007 I designed and developed a CAN Controlled Servo with Optional Contactless Magnetic Rotary Encoder Module which won a Distinctive Excellence award during the Circuit Cellar - Microchip 2007 Embedded Control Design Contest. During the Fall of 2007 I worked with David Ilstrup on a project on Aerial Photography Using a Nokia N95 which worked out really nice. You can read all about the project at the class website. Currently I am a PhD student at UCSC working under Dr. Gabriel Elkaim at the Autonomous Systems Lab with the Naval Postgraduate School's Unammned Systems Lab on developing a fault-tolerant autopilot for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. I am an embedded systems engineer by profession and a software developer by hobby, and many times one crosses the path of the other. And honestly, it is quite hard for me to decide which one is more fullfilling.

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Current Salary: Not Specified
Desired Salary: $75,000 to $100,000