Octavio Narvaez Aroche

Biography

Octavio Narváez Aroche received the Ph.D. (2019) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He obtained the B.S (2008) and M.Sc. (2010) summa cum laude degrees in Mechatronics Engineering from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico. He was a global partner in ME-310 Design Innovation at Stanford University (2007-2008).

From 2010 to 2013 Octavio was instructor of Electromechanical Systems in the Mechatronics Department of the School of Engineering, and a research assistant in the Graduate School of Engineering, both at UNAM; during this time he participated in several industry-sponsored projects. In 2012 he joined the engineering team of the startup Automatische Technik Mexico, where he helped to develop the first commercially available Mexican industrial delta robot for pick-and-place operations. He designed, simulated, implemented, and validated novel controllers for conducting Active Noise Reduction (ANR) in prototypes of around-ear, and in-ear headphones as an applied researcher at Bose Corporation from 2019 to 2020.

Octavio was advised by Professors Andrew Packard, and Murat Arcak at the Berkeley Center for Control & Identification in the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of California, Berkeley with the support of CONACYT, Fulbright-Garcia Robles, and UC-MEXUS scholarships. His doctoral dissertation is on trajectory planning and robust control algorithms for the sit-to-stand movement of powered lower limb orthoses used in human rehabilitation. His research interests include optimal control, acoustics, product design, machine learning, validation, uncertainty qualification, dynamic programming, and development engineering.