Andres Rico
Inventor | Tinkerer | Maker | Developer | Designer
Andres is a graduate student from Mexico City at the MIT Media Lab with a background in Robotics, AI and Innovation. His main research goal is to understand ways in which we can better develop our urban sensing infrastructure.
As an undergraduate student, he co-founded an innovation firm (OGMA D+I) and was a member of MITʼs Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program in Monterrey, Mexico where he worked with city stakeholders on the development of the regionʼs innovation and entrepreneurship capabilities.
His current work at MIT is focused on the development of low-cost, distributed and opportunistic sensor networks. The sensors and algorithms have the goal of enabling bottom-up community based insights that can improve future cities's socio-environmental performance.
MIT Media Lab - City Science MIT REAP Tecnológico de Monterrey - Innovaction Gym OGMA D+I
Awards
2023 MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35 LATAM
2023 Bloomberg LATAM Top 100 Innovators
2021 Rolex Institute Sustainability Scholar
2020 FTC Best Paper Award
2019 Magna Cum Laude
2019 LIFE Multi-faceted Award
2019 LIFE Combined Achievement Award
2018 National Robotics Competition SPL Mexico Champion
2018 Santander Scholarship
2018 Conexión Tec Award for Best Software Development
2018 Outstanding Student Achievement Award
2017 Top GPA of the School of Engineering Award
2017 Outstanding Student Achievement Award
2017 Adobe Innovation Challenge
2014 NSHSS Membership
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