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Daniel Herrera

MEng in Electrical Engineering & BEng in Electronic Civil Engineer both from University of Concepcion, Software Developer since 2008 & Teaching Assistant from 2007-2009 at University of Concepcion, Chile.

Headline: Entrepreneur
Skills: C/C++, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, French, HTML / CSS, Languages, Languages and Platforms, Software Engineering, Spanish, Web Development, Windows applications
Groups: Desafío Intel® Chile, Desafío Intel® Chile 2010
Interested in: Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup
Schools: Universidad de Concepción

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: University of Concepcion
Position: Software Developer
Time period: June 2008 - Present
Description: Build a CPU version of collision detection software for triangle-based 3D models for a knee arthroscopy simulator using haptic devices. Strong research of the newly CUDA technology to run all algorithms involved in the simulator into GPU. Also involved in thesis work: “Performance evaluation of collision detection algorithms using CUDA parallel scheme”.

Employer: University of Concepcion
Position: Part-Time Professor
Time period: August 2008 - December 2008
Description: Programming workshop in C language for Biomedical Engineering students. Reinforcement of algorithms and programming language.

Employer: University of Concepcion
Position: Teaching Assistant
Time period: August 2007 - December 2009
Description: Assistance provided for subjects: 2007-II: Digital System Advanced Design using FPGAs, which we developed schematic and verilog designs which introduces the benefits of using FPGA in signal processing applications.

Employer: ENAP Chile
Position: Intern
Time period: December 2005 - February 2006
Description: Worked at the Electronic and Instrumentation Lab. Main tasks were maintenance, reconfiguration, documentation and startup of all electronic equipment inside production processes.

EDUCATION

University: Universidad de Concepción
Time period: 2002 - 2007
Degree: Electronic Civil Engineer

University: Universidad de Concepción
Time period: 2007 - Present
Degree: Electrical Engineering, MEng

PUBLICATIONS

Articles: R. Escalona, D. Herrera and M. Figueroa, A Reconfigurable Array for Blind Source separation on an FPGA, BioDevices, 2009.
D. Herrera and M. Figueroa, Analog VLSI Neural network emulator based on FPGA, JCC, 2008.

INFORMATION

Awards: Roberto Ovalle Aguirre - Chilean Engineers Institute, Oct 2008
Engineering Faculty - University of Concepcion, Jul 2008

Daniel's Startups (1)

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  • FeelIT

    "FeelIT Innovative Technologies", develops software-based products to obtain a haptic pseudo-holographic 3D touchable screen for visually impaired people.

Daniel is Following (3)

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  • YouNoodle

    YouNoodle is a place to discover and support the hottest early-stage companies and university innovation.

  • ChileGlobal Angels

    Angel Investment Network that brings together investors and entrepreneurs from Chile and abroad. Hence, is the first local (chilean) network with international members focused on Chilean dynamic start-ups looking for capital to scale-up and globalize

  • Gled

    We develop augmented reality software and applications, for desktop, web and mobile platforms

Daniel's Contacts (6)

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  • Heesun Lho

    VP of Projects at YouNoodle. Korean, grew up in the US, B.A. in Human Biology and M.A. in Education from Stanford University, former Co-President of BASES and now at YouNoodle running entrepreneurship campaigns!

  • Felipe Santibáñez

    Chilean, 26, Electronic Civil Engineer from UdeC. Research Assistant in NEMO Lab and Scian Lab and software engineer in Fondef projects associated with haptic devices, visulization and computational modeling. Entrepreneur and visionary always looking for