Summary
Jose Berengueres is an associate professor and researcher with a PhD in bio-inspired robotics who blends academic leadership and applied design thinking across universities and industry. With 12+ years of experience, he has supervised master's theses at KTH, held faculty and director roles at UAEU and Nazarbayev University, and taught executive programs at business and design schools. He has consulted for global brands including Apple and Porsche Middle East, co-founded two early social-startups in 2008, and occasionally angel-invests while coaching entrepreneurs in university incubators. An author of books on design thinking and data storytelling and an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, he combines technical rigor in robotics and data with a strong applied focus on UX and business innovation. Notably, his early work included building a vision-based rock-paper-scissors robot that could beat humans, reflecting a long-standing interest in human-centered automation.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD bio-inspired robotics, PhD bio-inspired robotics at Tokyo Institute of Technology
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Japanese, Spanish, English, Swedish