Carlos Olguin, MSc

Carlos Olguin, MSc is Senior Product Designer at Autodesk and a member of the FutureMed faculty.
 
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.
 
In 2006 he joined Autodesk as a senior product designer. In his role within Autodesk Research, he leads a new initiative to understand and exploit the intersection of (bio)nanotechnology with 3D visualization, simulation, and design.
 
Carlos coauthored From Games and Films to Molecular Simulation and Design, PearlView: Non-Disruptive Hyper-List Browsing, Ellis Auditorium: The Design of a Scalable, Fun and Beautiful, Socializing Webcast Experience, and MOOD: From Bucket Based Learning to Socially Mediated, Highly Contextual Learning Experiences.
 
Beginning in 2005, he 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 earned his Master of Science in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon with the thesis A Service Brokerage Deployment Architecture. He earned his BSc in Electronics and Communications from Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Mexico). He has also studied telecommunications at the Institute National des Telecommunications in Evry, France.