Summary
Mario Gutierrez is a Senior Software Engineer and HCI researcher with a Ph.D. in Virtual Reality from EPFL and over 7 years of industry experience building AR/VR, computer vision, and mobile systems at Logitech and startups. He combines academic rigor—postdoctoral and PhD work at EPFL and teaching roles at Tecnológico de Monterrey—with hands-on R&D delivering iOS/Android apps, 3D graphics, and tablet-based interfaces for multimedia and affective computing. His background spans human-robot interaction, animated robotic faces, and brain-interface experiments, reflecting a rare mix of systems engineering and user-centered research. Based in Lausanne, he excels at translating VR/HCI research into production-ready prototypes and shipping perceptual computing features in commercial products.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Bachelor, Computer Science, Master, Bachelor, Computer Science at Tecnológico de Monterrey
Ph.D., Computer Science: Virtual Reality, Ph.D., Computer Science: Virtual Reality at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
English, French, Spanish