One Cambridge Center 4F • Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

Mobile Phone 617-710-0092 • work phone 617-452-5642 • E-mail Emunguia@mit.edu

http://web.media.mit.edu/~emunguia

 

Emmanuel Munguia Tapia

Objective

 

Seeking a full-time research position in the field of pervasive and ubiquitous computing which allows me to solve real-world problems applying my knowledge in software design, machine learning, pattern classification, electronic design, wireless sensor networks and sensors in a challenging environment.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

Context-aware environments, pervasive and ubiquitous computing, novel sensor hardware, machine learning, pattern recognition and artificial intelligence. Living laboratories, wearable computers and technologies with applications to ubiquitous healthcare and embedded health assessment.

Education

 

2003 – present     Massachusetts Institute of Technology    Cambridge, MA

The Media Laboratory

Ph.D.Candidate in Media Arts and Sciences

Main area of specialization: Context-Aware Environments; Technical Area: Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition; Contextual Area: Ubiquitous Healthcare and Embedded Health Assessment

n     Emphasis: pattern recognition, machine learning, artificial intelligence, computer vision, signal and image processing, sensor design and wireless sensor networks. Machine learning applied to human activity inferencing for context awareness and health monitoring.

n     GPA 4.9/5.0.

2001 – 2003        Massachusetts Institute of Technology     Cambridge, MA

The Media Laboratory

M.S. Media Arts and Sciences

n     Thesis title: Activity Recognition in the Home Setting Using Simple and Ubiquitous Sensors.

n     Emphasis: Pattern recognition, machine learning, artificial intelligence.

n     GPA 4.9/5.0.

1995 – 2000        National Polytechnic Institute           Mexico City, Mexico

Superior School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering

B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

n     Summa Cum Laude, thesis honorific mention with departmental honors

n     Major in electronic design, minor in communication systems.

n     Emphasis: digital and analog electronic design, electronic instrumentation, microcontrollers, microprocessors, sensors design, programming languages, networks, and control systems.

n     Thesis title: The Design and Construction of an Electrocardiograph

1992 – 1995      CBTIS 37 Technical School  CD. Obregon, Sonora, Mexico

Associate of Science degree in Electronic design

n     GPA 4.9/5.0

1993 – 1995       ECCO Technical School     CD. Obregon, Sonora, Mexico

Associate of Science degree in Programming languages and Computer Networks

n     GPA 5.0/5.0

 

Work experience

 

2001 - 2005       Massachusetts Institute of Technology       Cambridge, MA

Research Assistant

Changing Places/House_n, The MIT Media Laboratory

n     Published research in ubiquitous computing, sensor networks, machine learning and pattern classification.

n     Developed algorithms for human activity recognition and people tracking using wearable sensors, sensors distributed in the environment and computer vision.

n     Designed all the sensing infrastructure of the newest MIT living laboratory/smart home “The Placelab”.

n     Designed the new MIT wireless sensing platform called MITes: MIT environmental sensors for collection of data in real settings such as homes.

 

2005                 Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Cambridge, MA

Research Assistant

n     Designed, tested and installed a wireless sensor network of 500 PIR motion sensors and developed scalable and hierarchical algorithms to infer human behavior in buildings. The system recognizes individual and group activities such as walking, loitering, visiting and meeting in real-time. 

 

2004                 Intel Research Seattle                                     Seattle, WA

Research Assistant

n     Developed algorithms based on dynamic Bayesian networks, statistical shrinkage and mined ontologies to infer human activities based on the interaction of people with RFID tagged objects.

 

2000 - 2001       Symtx                                               Monterrey, Mexico

Project Engineer

n     Designed and constructed automated test equipment for electronic manufacturing resulting in complete automated product test systems for companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Motorola.

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In submission

E. Munguia Tapia, "Towards User Friendly Common-Sense Activity Recognition," in submission. Cambridge, MA, 2007.

 

Paper presentations at refereed conferences

J. Beaudin, S.S. Intille, E. Munguia Tapia, R. Rockinson and M. Morris, Context-Sensitive Microlearning of Foreign Language Vocabulary on a Mobile Device, in Proceedings of the European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI '07). 2007: Darmstadt, Germany. To appear.

E. Munguia Tapia, S.S. Intille, and K. Larson, Portable Wireless Sensors for Object Usage Sensing in the Home: Challenges and Practicalities, in Proceedings of the European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI '07). 2007: Darmstadt, Germany. To appear.

E. Munguia Tapia, S. Intille, and K. Larson, Real-Time Recognition of Physical Activities and Their Intensities Using Wireless Accelerometers and a Heart Rate Monitor, in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Wearable Computers (ISWC '07). 2007: Boston, MA.  To appear.

B. Logan, J. Healey, M. Philipose, E. Munguia Tapia, and S. Intille, A Long-Term Evaluation of Sensing Modalities for Activity Recognition, in Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP '07). 2007: Innsbruck, Austria. p. To appear.

E. Munguia Tapia, T. Choudhury, and M. Philipose, "Building Reliable Activity Models Using Hierarchical Shrinkage and Mined Ontology," in Proceedings of PERVASIVE 2006, B. Heidelberg, Ed. Dublin, Ireland: Springer-Verlag, 2006.

E. Munguia Tapia, S.S. Intille, L. Lopez, and K. Larson, "The Design of a Portable Kit of Wireless Sensors for Naturalistic Data Collection" in Proceedings of PERVASIVE 2006. B. Heidelberg, Ed. Dublin, Ireland: Springer-Verlag, 2006

S. S. Intille, K. Larson, E. Munguia Tapia, J.S. Beaudin, P. Kaushik, J. Nawyn, and R. Rockinson, "Using a Live-in Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing Research" in Proceedings of PERVASIVE 2006. B. Heidelberg, Ed. Dublin, Ireland: Springer-Verlag, 2006

A. Feldman, E. Munguia Tapia, S. Sadi, P. Maes, and C. Schmandt, "ReachMedia: On-the-move Interaction with Everyday Objects," in proceedings of The Ninth Annual IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC '05). Osaka, Japan, 2005.

Best paper nominee at ISWC ‘05.

S. S. Intille, K. Larson, J. S. Beaudin, J. Nawyn, E. Munguia Tapia, and P. Kaushik, "A Living Laboratory for the Design and Evaluation of Ubiquitous Computing Interfaces," in Extended Abstracts of the 2005 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY: ACM Press, 2005, pp. 1941 - 1944.

E. Munguia Tapia, S. S. Intille, and K. Larson, "Activity Recognition in the Home Setting Using Simple and Ubiquitous Sensors," in Proceedings of PERVASIVE 2004, vol. LNCS 3001, A. Ferscha and F. Mattern, Eds. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2004, pp. 158-175

J. Beaudin, S. Intille, and E. Munguia Tapia. "Lessons Learned Using Ubiquitous Sensors for Data Collection in Real Homes". Extended Abstracts of the 2004 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY: ACM Press, 2004, pp. 1359-1362

S.S. Intille, E. Munguia Tapia J. Rondoni, J. Beaudin, C. Kukla, S. Agarwal, and L. Bao, "Tools for Studying Behavior and Technology in Natural Settings," in Proceedings of UBICOMP 2003: Ubiquitous Computing, vol. LNCS 2864, A.K. Dey, A. Schmidt, and J.F..

S. S. Intille, L. Bao, E. Munguia Tapia, and J. Rondoni, "Acquiring in situ training data for context-aware ubiquitous computing applications," in Proceedings of CHI 2004 Connect: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY: ACM Press, 2004, pp. 1-9

M. Hlubinka, J. Beaudin, E. Munguia Tapia, J. S. An, AltarNation: Interface Design for Meditative Communities, CHI '02 extended abstracts on Human factors in computer systems, April 20-25, 2002, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

 

Paper presentations at refereed workshops

C. R. Wren and E. Munguia Tapia, "Toward Scalable Activity Recognition for Sensor Networks," in Proceedings of The Second International Workshop in Location and Context-Awareness (LoCA '06), vol. 3987 / 2006, M. Hazas, J. Krumm, and T. Strang, Eds. Dublin, Ireland: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2006, pp. 168-185.

Winner of a best presentation award.

 

Demo presentations at refereed conferences

E. Munguia Tapia, N. Marmasse, S. S. Intille, and K. Larson, "MITes: Wireless portable sensors for studying behavior," in Proceedings of Extended Abstracts Ubicomp 2004: Ubiquitous Computing, 2004.

 

Invited papers for keynotes at refereed conferences

E. Munguia Tapia, S. S. Intille, K. Larson, R. Rockinson, and J. Beaudin, "Tools for Ubiquitous Computing Research," in Proceedings of the International Symposium for the Realization of Ubiquitous - City. Seoul, Korea, 2006.

 

Abstract presentations at refereed conferences

S.S. Intille, E. Munguia Tapia, and L. Bao, "Real-time Physical Activity Recognition Using Multiple Wireless Accelerometers." Abstract presented at the Scientific Meeting on Objective Monitoring of Physical Activity: Closing Gaps in the Science of Accelerometry, University of North Carolina, December, 2004.

Winner of a best poster award.  Abstract to appear in the Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise Journal.

 

Video presentations at refereed conferences

S. S. Intille, K. Larson, J. Beaudin, E. Munguia Tapia, P. Kaushik, J. Nawyn, and T.J. McLeish, "The PlaceLab: a Live-in Laboratory for Pervasive Computing Research (Video)," in Proceedings of Pervasive 2005 Video Program, May, 2005.

E. Munguia Tapia, S.S. Intille, J. Rebula,  S. Stoddard, " Ubiquitous Video Communication with the Perception of Eye Contact," in Proceedings of UBICOMP 2003 Video Program, 2003.

 

Technical reports

 

E. Munguia Tapia, T. Choudhury, M. Philipose, and D. Wyatt, Using Automatically Mined Object Relationships and Common Sense for Unsupervised Activity Recognition, Technical Report IRS-TR-05-014, Intel Research Seattle, Seattle, WA, May 2005.

 

 

Thesis reports

M.S. thesis (September 2003)

E. Munguia Tapia. "Activity Recognition in the Home Setting Using Simple and Ubiquitous Sensors". S.M. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003

Advisors:

Kent Larson, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Department of Architecture

William J. Mitchell, Dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning,  Head of the MIT Program in Media Arts and Sciences.

Additional committee members:

Dr. Stephen S. Intille, Research Scientist, MIT

Dr. Joseph A. Paradiso,  Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences,     MIT Media Laboratory

 

Patents

 

United States Patent Application: "Hierarchical Processing in Scalable and Portable Sensor Networks for Activity Recognition". C. R. Wren, E. Munguia Tapia, 2006.

United States Patent Application: “MITes: MIT Environmental Sensors”. E. Munguia Tapia, Stephen Intille, Kent Larson. 2004.

Service and professional involvement

 

 

Program Committee: Seventh International Conference on Intelligent System Design and Applications.

 

Reviewer for the following refereed conferences:

International Conference on Pervasive Computing (PERVASIVE)

International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP)

International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC)

International Conference on Intelligent System Design and Applications

(ISDA)

 

Reviewer for the following international refereed journals:

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM)

IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B (TSMC-B)

 

Invited Talks

 

 

Real-Time Recognition of Physical Activities and Their Intensities Using Wireless Accelerometers and a Heart Rate Monitor, Samsung Information Systems America, San Jose, CA, August 2007.

Activity Recognition from Sensor Networks, Accenture Technology Labs, Chicago, Illinois, May, 2007

Tools for Ubiquitous Computing Research, First International Symposium for the Realization of Ubiquitous - City, Seoul, Korea , July 2006.

The PlaceLab Living Laboratory and the MIT Environmental Sensors, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA., August 2004.

The MIT PlaceLab, Intel Research Seattle, Seattle, WA., August 2004.

Sensing Technologies for Proactive Healthcare, Proactive Health Group, Intel Research Portland, Portland OR, July 2004.

 

Invited Exhibitions

 

 

Invited Demonstration of Technology National Commission for Quality Long-term Care Washington, DC, July 22, 2005.

 

Future Technology for the Aging, presentations made to congressional staff at Senate offices in Washington D.C. in conjunction with the CAST Conference, March 2004

PRESS COVERAGE AND MEDIA

 

“Sensors for Proactive computing”, PERVASIVE COMMUNICATION, (August, 2006) 

“Bracelet navigates Net” – TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH NEWS, Technology Review Magazine, (October 17, 2005)

“Bracelet navigates Net” - RHIZOME Connecting Art and Technology.  (October 18, 2005)

"The PlaceLab: Research in the Real World to Develop Tomorrow's Technologies" - FRAMES, a publication of the MIT Media Lab, Issue #130 (September, 2005)

“MIT's Live-in PlaceLab”, Emerging technologies and their implications for the future, IFTF’s Future Now. (January 08, 2005)

"The PlaceLab" – THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL (aired in Canada on November 30th, 2004)

"Live-in lab" - Business & Innovation, The Boston Globe (October 4, 2004)

The Digital Apartment" - Innovation News, Technology Review (June 2004)

"The MIT Environmental Sensors." MIT TECHNOLOGY INSIDER, 102-0083, 2004.

Honors and Awards

 

 

§   Best paper nominee at the International Symposium on Wearable

    Computers (2005).

§   Winner of a best poster award at the Scientific Meeting on Objective

     Monitoring of Physical Activity  (2004).

§    MIT Research Assistantship award (2001-2005)

§   Presidential Award given by the president of Mexico (2000)

§   Best Graduating Engineer National Award (Mexico, 2000)

§   Member of the Dean’s List (1995-2000)

§   Graduated Summa Cum Laude, Instituto Politecnico Nacional (2000)

§   Graduated with departmental honors (top 1% of 65,000) students

§   Honorific mention in the B.S. Thesis

§   Telmex Fellow (2001-2005)

§   Telmex Scholarship (1998-2000)

§   Intelmex Scholarship (1999-2000)

§   IPN Excellence Scholarship (1996-1999)

§   Undergraduate Research Scholarship (1998).

§   “Juventud Sonora” Medal for Math and Science (1995).

§   Mexican Mathematical Olympiad: First Place of Sonora State, Mexico.

§   Mexican Physics Olympiad: Second Place of Sonora State, Mexico.

§   Mexican Chemistry Olympiad: Second Place of Sonora State, Mexico

 

 

Google Scholar Top-ranked paper for the following search phrases:

Activity Recognition (July 2006) Activity Recognition from Sensor Networks (July 2006)

 

Professional memberships

 

 

Association for Computing Machinery Member.

Member number: 5410147 since 2004.

 

IEEE Computer Society Member.

Member number: 80352497 since 2004.

Teaching and advising experience

 

MIT undergraduate research students mentor: David Wen (2007), Ammar Ammar (2006), Eli B. Stickgold (2006), Aiko Nakano (2006), Eleojo Ocholi (2005-6), Mikala Streeter (2006), Kevin Luu (2005), Armando Valdes Samaniego (2003), Jesse Lacika (2003).

programming experience and Computer skills

 

PDA/Smart phones programming, Java, C#, C++, .NET, Matlab, SQL, Visual Basic,  JSP, HTML, XML, Dreamweaver, WinNT, Win 2K/XP, Office, Networks,  Assembly for PIC , MCHC11, 808x, and 8051 microcontrollers.

Languages

 

English, Spanish native speaker

Volunteer experience

 

Student Volunteer: International Conference on PERVASIVE Computing (PERVASIVE), 2006.

Student Volunteer: International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP) 2004.

Extracurricular activities

 

MIT Mexican Student Association Officer, Sidney Pacific community A/V officer.

References

 

Available upon request

Personal

 

Citizenship: Mexico. Visa status: J1 

Non-Academic Interests

 

Entrepreneur activities, design of marine and fresh water aquariums, reading: my favorite writer is J.J. Benitez, best books: Troya Horse 1,2,3,4,5 and 6. I also enjoy traveling, specially to beautiful and natural places such as the beach, or the forest. Food, especially Pizza, Hamburgers and Hot-dogs (Pure protein, What a pig!).