Founder and CEO
Kitco | 2021-Present
- Built and scaled a STEM learning products from ideation to adoption reaching more than 10K users, focusing on underserved communities.
- Collaborated with educators to develop NGSS-aligned programs.
- Consult foundations and school districts in their use of AI.
- Collaborated with the Berkeley Foundation to develop educational programs.
- Ideation, design and implementation of a special machine and a system to take the KitCo educational kits to museums and other organizations with user-friendly production at low-scale of our designs of the pieces.
CLAP | 2022 - Present
- Advised development and assessment of a learning strategy for underserved NEET youth.
- Steered successful fundraising efforts from foundations such as Empowered and Hilton Foundations.
- Guide their AI usage for content generation and job clustering.
Schmidt Futures – LEVI Team | 2023
- Lead the creation of an open source LLM research-based benchmark for middle school algebra misconceptions, improving diagnostic tools for math education. [Github]
- Collaborated with Eedie to coauthor research papers on the project [paper1, paper2].
Make: (Remote) | 2020-2021
- Created a remote, equity-focused program for underserved youth in Mexico and the US, emphasizing real-world problem-solving through emerging technologies.
- Orchestrated program components between higher education institutions, nonprofits, and industry.
Bedu | 2019-2020
- BEDU is a Mexican EdTech focused on training professionals on data science, software development, and UX/UI.
- Directed learning strategies for the Content Creation and Student Services teams (13 ICs) to meet job market needs, increase class assistance, and decrease drop-outs.
Portfolio School | 2016 – 2021
- Developed and implemented K-6 project-based curriculum with integrated assessments for project-based learning
- Developed strategic partnerships with leading institutions (Stanford University, NYU, Columbia University, Google) for students to collaborate in real-world projects and participate in conferences.
- Created assessment methods and technologies specific to project-based learning using AI.
Beam Center | 2014 – 2016 Board Member since 2016
- Developed and scaled project-based learning methodologies to 3,000 annual underserved students.
- Securing funding from Mozilla and MacArthur.
- Coordinated the creation of FabLab@School across five NYC boroughs, integrating advanced technologies into K-12 education [paper].
Active Emergence | 2012 - 2023
- Created project-based learning curricula for US, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, and China schools [paper].
- Created specialized K-12 curricula for MakerSpaces and FabLab@Schools.
- Designed quantitative and qualitative tools for measuring and assessing project-based learning outcomes.
Technical Skills
Scholar
OpenAI | 2019
Master Final Project, Stanford University | 2012-2013
Center for Infant Studies, Stanford University | 2009-2013
Palo Alto Networks | 2006-2010
IT Strap | 2003-2005
OpenAI | 2019
- Selected for a highly competitive fellowship at openAI researching LLMs and their applications in education.
- Designed an AI tool (CREATURE) to evaluate educational projects based on their application of NGSS standard, explanations of scientific concepts and used for educators as future teaching tools.
Master Final Project, Stanford University | 2012-2013
- Development of BeatTable, a physical table with a digital environment that can be controlled by tangible instruments, and through immediate auditory and visual feedback makes salient the relationships between math and music.
- Created CuentaMeMás, an AI-powered app supporting early childhood language based interactions of communication skills for Latino families.
- Implementation of research-based diagnosis of caregiver-infant interactions using AI.
Center for Infant Studies, Stanford University | 2009-2013
- Transformation of the system used to measure language processing efficiency into a portable version capable to travel in plane that traveled to Mexico and Senegal.
- Development of a program capable to select the “word-densest” interaction between caregiver and infant using LENA (Language ENvironment Analysis System)
Palo Alto Networks | 2006-2010
- Early engineer during the company's hyper-growth phase of network security startup, responsible for detecting and controlling 200+ apps, including tunneled and encrypted traffic.
- Wrote decoders using RFC and state language machine.
- Lead cross-collaboration between product management team, QA, and applications detection team.
IT Strap | 2003-2005
- Sold network security products to large Mexican enterprises and government.
- Developed and managed a distribution channel.
- Developed a product to identify and block network traffic at the application level.
Research
Founder and CEO
Kitco | 2021-Present
Schmidt Futures – LEVI Team | 2023
Transformative Learning Technologies Lab at Stanford University | 2012-Present
Center for Infant Studies, Stanford University | 2009-2012
Kitco | 2021-Present
- Researched the affordances of educational AI resources and AI abilities to support learning how to code [paper1, paper2].
Schmidt Futures – LEVI Team | 2023
- Lead the creation of an open source LLM research-based benchmark for middle school algebra misconceptions, improving diagnostic tools for math education. [Github]
- Collaborated with Eedie to coauthor research papers on the project [paper1, paper2].
- Published the research paper related to the creation and applications of the dataset [paper].
Transformative Learning Technologies Lab at Stanford University | 2012-Present
- Researched the implementation of project-based STEM programs.
- Workshop facilitator for teacher’s Professional Development.
- Researched teacher's and student’s impact when interacting with digital fabrication.
Center for Infant Studies, Stanford University | 2009-2012
- Research the beginning and consequences of the achievement gap. Research interventions to reduce the achievement gap.
- Conducted and designed methodology to research qualitative and quantitative analysis of parent-child interaction.
- Creation of remote lab in Mexico City.
Selected Conferences
- 2019 / Make Machine Learning a Maker (panel)
- 2018 / Future of China Education Columbia University (panel/presentation)
- 2018 / Education and Technology Seminar Instituto Tecnico Autonomo de Mexico (panel/presentation)
- 2017 / FabLearn Stanford University (presentation)
- 2015 / High-Level Innovation Forum for Policy Makers Woodrow Wilson Center (keynote)
- 2015 / FabLearn Stanford University (paper presentation)
- 2015 / Progressive Education Network NYC (presentation)
- 2015 / Creative Technology Symposium Columbia University (presentation)
- 2015 / Maker Faire NYC (panel)
- 2015 / IMPACT NYU (workshop)
- 2014 / FabLearn Europe (paper presentation)
- 2014 / Interaction Design and Children Europe (paper presentation)
- 2014 / FabLearn Stanford University (paper presentation)
- 2013 / Interaction Design and Children (demo)
- 2012 / Society for Research in Child Development (paper presentation)
- 2012 / International Conference on Infant Studies (paper presentation)
