Emmanuel Munguia Tapia is a Ph.D candidate in the MIT Media Laboratory doing research with the MIT House_n group. His research effort is on developing systems that infer human activities and context from sensors placed ubiquitously in the environment and worn on the body and applying these algorithms for preventive health care in the home. Emmanuel's research interests include context-aware environments, pervasive and ubiquitous computing, novel sensor hardware, and machine learning and pattern recognition. He received his S.M. from MIT in 2003 working on activity inferencing and context awareness from sensor data, and a B.S degree (with honors) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the ESIME at the Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico in 2000. He has received a number of awards including the Best Graduating Engineer National Award, Mexico (2000), and the "Presea Lazaro Cardenas", one of the highest recognitions to academic excellence given by the President of Mexico (2000). He has held summer internships at Intel Research Seattle and the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory.

Home page: http://www.media.mit.edu/~emunguia