Welcome to my portfolio. My name is Emmanuel Munguia Tapia and I am a research assistant and PhD candidate in Media Arts & Sciences at the MIT Media Lab. I am currently working with the multi-disciplinary research consortium, House_n/Changing Places. My Advisors are Mr. Kent Larson, director of the Changing Places consortium and Stephen Intille, technology director for House_n.

I was born in Cd. Obregón, Sonora México. I lived in Sonora until finishing High School. Then I moved to Mexico City to study a B.S. at the Superior School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, National Polytechnic Institute. I have one brother and one sister. All my family still live in Sonora, but I visit them whenever I can.

My special interests are:

• Activity Recognition
• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning
• Wireless Sensors Networks
• Biomedical Instrumentation
• Ubiquitous Healthcare
• Signal Processing
• Machine Vision
• Medicine
• Mental Illnesses
• Human-Computer Interfaces

Other interests are:

• I love to design Salt water and fresh water aquariums. I enjoy watching all kinds of fish swimming.
• Reading, my favorit writer is J.J. Benitez, best books: Troya Horse 1,2,3,4,5 and 6.
• I like traveling, especially going to beautiful and natural places such as the beach, or the forest.
• Food, especially Pizza, Hamburgers and Hot-dogs (Pure protein, What a pig!).