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I'm Manuel Arturo Deza Figueroa, but I prefer being called Arturo.

At UCSD, with Dr. Seuss and the Cat in the Hat.

Research Interests:

• Computer Vision
• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning
• Cognitive Science

Short Bio:

• I was born August 31st 1990 in Lima Peru.

• At age 2, I moved to Maryland USA, where I lived for 6-7 years. Special thanks to my dad for getting a high position job as an Economist at the Interamerican Development Bank.

• At Maryland, I went to a Manor Montessori School, for which I am forever grateful. Special thanks to my mom for that choice!

• I later moved back to Lima - Peru, my homeland starting 4th Grade at Colegio Peruano Britanico.

• At 06' I finished highschool at Colegio Peruano Britanico, and entered Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria on March 07', ranked #1 in my admissions mode to study Mechatronic Engineering.

• On 08' I visited Caltech.

• Since 09' I've been seeking guidance from my advisor: PhD Alberto Coronado, who is a Professor & the lead researcher of a Multi-Scale Simulation research group and author of international publications, at my Engineering building.

• On 10' I visited UCSD, Caltech, Purdue University (where I talked to Professor Aliaga, a peruvian Associate profesor) and U Maryland, College Park. After 12 years I visited my old aparment at Rockville, Maryland.

• June 2011 : Machine Learning Summer School at Purdue University. First international academic experience, and it was totally cool to meet new people & Professors from all over the world, having different research fields but overall being interested in Machine Learning theory and applications.

• From March 2011 to December 2011 : I was named President of GISCIA: Artificial Intelligence and Control Systems Student Research Group at Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria. Our English version webpage is still under construction, but you can check it out here : http://giscia.wikidot.com . We constantly win #1 every year of every National engineering research project competition.

• At the moment I am affiliated to both the Computer Vision Lab and the Center for BioImage Informatics at University of California, Santa Barbara. I am doing an internship here until July.

• NEWS : I just got accepted at the International Computer Vision Summer School 2012- in Sicily. Acceptance rate is around 33 % (which is not bad), but I am proud to be the only Peruvian assisting ! What a better way to enjoy Computer Vision: Santa Barbara USA, and then spending a week in Sicily, Italy.

What am I working on now?

Check out my Data-Log. I'm doing two parallelo project on Scene Understanding and Neuron Tracing. I'm also participating in a UCSB start-up competition. Gifiniti - is a new way of experiencing intelligent & social gift-giving.