I'm César Torres, a 5 th year Ph.D. Candidate in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department . I also hold a Designated Emphasis in New Media!
I am currently advised by computer-scientist-artist Eric Paulos and am part of the Hybrid Ecologies Lab. My current thesis work explores how digital fabrication technologies can constrain, guide, or disrupt how we creatively work with physical and computational materials. You can find me in the Berkeley Institute of Design in 360 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, or in the 143 Sutardja Dai Invention Studio.
This summer, I'll be the Lecturer for CS160: Intro to UI Design and Development at Cal! Stay tuned...
I'm a proud recipient of the Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the Adobe GEM Fellowhip. I hold dual degrees in Art Practice (B.A. '13) and Computer Science (B.S. '13) from Stanford University, advised by Gail Wight in the Art and Art History Department, and Scott Klemmer and Ranjitha Kumar as part of the HCI Group in the Computer Science Department.
Currently, I serve as a coordinator for the weekly Berkeley Institute of Design Seminar Series . Email me if you'd like to present. I'm also a board member for the Timothy B. Campbell Scholarship Fund which awards scholarships to students that demonstrate a spirit of innovation.
So, let's talk (new) media. Send me a note at cearto (at) berkeley (dot) edu or follow me on Twitter: @zenfortech
News & Travel
| Humbled and thrilled to be a recipient of the Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant! | - | June 27 |
| First day of school as the CS160 Summer Lecturer! | Berkeley, CA | June 19 |
| Pass my quals! Now a PhD Candidate! | Berkeley, CA | May 1 |
| New work accepted to CHI 2017! See you in Denver! | Denver, Colorado | January 16 |
| Ellustrate , our design tool for sketching circuits, was accepted to UIST'16! | Tokyo, 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.
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Stanford, CA | October 12 |
| Said goodbye to my research compadre Tim Campbell | Oakland, CA | September 15 |
| Started TA-ing CS160, | 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 |
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Software/Hardware |
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 |