Daniel Madrigal
Principal Researcher at Microsoft
Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
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Top SchoolDaniel Madrigal is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft with eight years of industry experience bridging cognitive architectures, VR, brain-computer interfaces, and neurocomputing. He holds advanced degrees from CINVESTAV Guadalajara where his doctoral work focused on sensory systems for virtual entities, and he continues PhD studies while leading applied research in human-computer interfaces. At Oracle and Microsoft he progressed from senior engineering roles to principal research, delivering production-ready research prototypes that integrate EEG, Kinect, and immersive simulations. His background combines rigorous academic experimentation (including research stays at Duke and the International Institute of Neuroscience) with practical systems engineering in C#, Unity, and distributed data streaming. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex neuro-AI concepts into scalable software, and he’s known for turning sensor-rich laboratory systems into usable research platforms. Based in Zapopan, Mexico, he blends regional academic roots with global research impact and hands-on development.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Grado en Ingeniería, Sistemas computacionales, Tesis: Evolución diferencial como algoritmo de entrenamiento para redes neuronal, Grado en Ingeniería, Sistemas computacionales, Tesis: Evolución diferencial como algoritmo de entrenamiento para redes neuronal at Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de ZamoraDoctorado, Ciencias de la computación, Tesis: Sistema sensorial para entidades virtuales, Doctorado, Ciencias de la computación, Tesis: Sistema sensorial para entidades virtuales at Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del I.P.N. Unidad Guadalajara
Spanish, EnglishGithub contributions (5)
diazmx/phd-thesis-lab
Dec 2022 - Apr 2025
Contributions:106 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
diazmx/diazmx.github.io
Oct 2020 - Oct 2023
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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