I'm César Torres, a 4^th year PhD student in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department at UC Berkeley and you have stumbled upon the site where I post my latest projects and experiments. I am currently advised by computer-scientist-artist Eric Paulos and am part of the Hybrid Ecologies Lab. My current research projects explore digital fabrication technologies as exciting, critical new media. You can find me in the Berkeley Institute of Design in 360 Hearst Memorial Mining Building.

I received my BS in Computer Science and BA in Art Practice from Stanford University in 2013 where I conducted research with the Stanford HCI Group and was advised by Scott Klemmer and Ranjitha Kumar in the CS Department, and Gail Wight in the Art and Art History Department.

At Berkeley, I am a graduate representative for the Berkeley Center for New Media executive committee and the coordinator of the weekly Berkeley Institute of Design Seminar Series. Email me if you'd like to present. This year, I am also an Interactivity co-chair for CHI'16 in San Jose.

So, let's talk media. Send me a note at cearto (at) berkeley (dot) edu!

News & Travel

Ellustrate, our design tool for sketching circuits, was accepted to UIST'16!	Kyoto, Japan	June 4-8
Presented ProxyPrint, demo'd LiveObjects, and co-ran the Digital Craftsmanship Workshop at DIS'16!	Brisbane, California	June 4-8
Booked our place for CHI'16. See you in SJ!	San José, California	May 7-12
Attending the California Alliance Retreat!	Berkeley, California	April 8-9
LiveObjects, accepted to Demos Track! Catch them at DIS 2016!	Brisbane, Australia	March 28
ProxyPrint has been accepted to DIS 2016!	Brisbane, Australia	March 8
Catch our workshop at DIS 2016! DIGITAL CRAFTSMANSHIP: HCI Takes on Technology as an Expressive Medium!	Brisbane, Australia	February 16
Presented and demo'd HapticPrint at UIST 2015!	Charlotte, NC	November 11
Finished the book design and cover design for the 1st edition of Elvira Prieto's latest masterpiece: An (Im)possible Life: Poesia y Testimonio in the Borderlands.	Stanford, CA	October 12
Said goodbye to my research compadre Tim Campbell	Oakland, CA	September 15
Started TA-ing CS160, Berkeley's Intro to Human-Computer Interaction.	San Francisco	August 24
Finished a fruitful internship at Adobe Research!	San Francisco	August 23
HapticPrint was accepted to UIST 2015!	Charlotte, NC	July 24
Presenting MetaMorphe at the Creativity and Cognition Conference '15!	Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.	June 21-25
Starting my internship at Adobe Research! @WillLi	San Francisco, CA	May 26
Bay Area MakerFaire	San Mateo, CA	May 15
MetaMorphe accepted to the Creativity and Cognition Conference '15!	Glasgow, UK	March 26
Presenting Fl.UI.s Note at TEI'15	Stanford, CA	January 15-19
SWARM Lab Retreat	Napa Valley, CA	January 14
Excited to be teaching the CS Scholars Seminar! #diversityincs	Berkeley, CA	Spring 2015
Selected as a ARC Fellow	Berkeley, CA	January 12
SV'ing at the Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) Conference	Vancouver, BC, Canada	June 22-26
Design Automation Conference	San Franscisco, CA	June 3-5
Demoing FlUIs @Solid 2014 Software/Hardware Everywhere	San Franscisco, CA	May 21-22, 2014
Robots and New Media Symposium	CITRIS @ UC Berkeley	Apr 4, 2014
Awarded the NSF GRFP ! :)		Apr 1, 2014
Google DevArt Meetup	San Francisco, CA	Mar 10, 2014
BiD Seminar - Lightning Talk	Berkeley, CA	Mar 4, 2014
EECS Annual Research Symposium (UCB)	Berkeley, CA	Feb 13, 2014
BSN Deep Dive	Bodega Bay, CA	Feb 7-8, 2014
Joined the Designated Emphasis in New Media program	BCNM	Nov 20, 2013
Codame Art and Technology Festival	San Francisco, CA	Nov 2, 2013
CITRIS Poster Presentation	Berkeley, CA	Oct 2, 2013
GEM Conference 2013	San Juan, Puerto Rico	Aug 7 - Aug 9, 2013