Andres Monroy Hernandez

Last updated October 26th 2009
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Andrés Monroy-Hernández
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
http://www.mit.edu/~amonroy/

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Research interests
Interested in the design and analysis of social software that supports cooperation and collaboration.

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Education
  • Ph.D., Media Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2007 - Present)

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  • MS, Media Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2005 - 2007)

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  • BS, Electronic Systems Engineering, Tecnológico de Monterrey (1996 - 2001)

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Recent Projects
  • Conceptualized, developed and managed a four-person team to build and support the Scratch Online Community, a website where kids from around the world share their own animations and video games. In two years, about 90,000 people have shared more than 600,000 projects. The website receives close to 1 million visits per month.
  • Created a mobile application to help nurses connect with doctors to perform cancer screening. Piloted in Zambia as part of the Next Billion Network initiative at MIT.

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Work Experience
MIT, Media Lab, Lifelong Kindergarten Research Group, Cambridge, MA
Research Assistant
08/2005 - Present
  • Led development of the ScratchR platform to power the Scratch website. Used CakePHP, MySQL, memcached, Linux and Apache.
  • Managed team of co-located contractors and volunteers.
  • Helped on programming workshops for kids and educators.

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Ex Libris Inc., Newton, MA
Software Developer
08/2001 - 08/2005
  • Developed core functionality for several versions of SFX - a web application that helps link scholarly information, implemented with Perl, MySQL, Apache for Linux, Solaris and AIX.
  • Programmed data parsers, information retrieval bots, and installation & upgrade scripts using Perl, MySQL and csh.
  • Worked on early prototypes of the bX recommender system.

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Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
Technical Intern
08/2000 - 12/2000
  • Developed MyLibrary, a personalized library web portal (with Cesar M. Ruiz)

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ITESM Centro de Investigación en Informática, Monterrey, México
Research Assistant
05/1999 - 06/2000
  • Developed Z39.50 interoperability mechanism for Phronesis, a web application for the creation of digital repositories of academic articles

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Honors, Awards and Grants
  • Oxford Internet Institute, SDP scholarship, 2009
  • Bradesco Fellowship, MIT Media Lab, 2008-2009
  • Samsung Fellowship, MIT Media Lab, 2006-2007
  • Telmex Fellowship, MIT Media Lab, 2005-2006
  • Tec de Monterrey, Excellence Scholarship, 1996-1999
  • Telmex Foundation Scholarship, 1996-2000
  • Third place in the IX National Mathematical Olympiad, México, 1995

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Mentoring
  • Co-advised Ubong Ukoh's senior thesis work (2007)
  • Co-advised Han Xu's master's of engineering thesis work (2008)

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Languages
  • Bilingual: English and Spanish (native)

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Publications, Conferences
  • Resnick, M., Maloney, J., Monroy-Hernández, A., et. al. (2009). Scratch: Programming for all. ACM Communications, 52(11):60-67.
  • Aragon, C., Poon, S., Monroy-Hernández, A., and Aragon, D. (2009). A tale of two online communities: Fostering collaboration and creativity in scientists and children. In Creativity and Cognition. ACM.
  • Zuckerman, O., Blau, I., and Monroy-Hernández, A. (2009). Children's participation patterns in online communities: An analysis of israeli learners in the scratch online community. Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects, pages 263-274.
  • Monroy-Hernández, A. (2009). Designing a website for creative learning. In Web Science 2009: Society On-Line. W3C, ACM.
  • Monroy-Hernández, A. and Resnick, M. (2008). Empowering kids to create and share programmable media. interactions, 15(2):50-53.
  • Monroy-Hernández, A. (2007). Scratchr : a platform for sharing user-generated programmable media. Master's thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • Monroy-Hernández, A. (2007). Scratchr: sharing user-generated programmable media. In IDC '07: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Interaction design and children, pages 167-168, New York, NY, USA. ACM Press.
  • Di Giacomo, M., Mahoney, D., Bollen, J., Monroy-Hernández, A., and Ruiz, C. M. (2001). A personalization service for digital library environments. In Joint DELOS-NSF Workshop on Personalisation and Recommender Systems in Digital Libraries, pages 18-20.

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Talks and presentations
  • Symposium on Cloud Intelligence. Ars Electronica Linz, Austria, 2009 (online)
  • Sharing Issues: Intellectual Property and Scratch. Scratch@MIT Conference (with Judith Donath, Wendy Seltzer and Dan Pote). MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA 2008
  • Amateur Creativiy. Think Forward Event. Hallmark Cards, Inc. Kansas City, MO 2008
  • International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications How do kids tag? 2008 (remote participation)
  • Creativity and Media Literacy Forum (with Karen Brennan). Digital Natives Forum Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University. Cambridge, MA 2008
  • New Opportunities in Amateur Interactive Content. AmHr Conference. New York Law School. New York, 2007
  • Technology education for children. Weekly Speaker Series. Northeastern University Association of Computing Machinery. Boston, 2007.
  • Informal Introduction to Computing for Children. Panelist. Informatics, Mathematics, and ICT: a "golden triangle". Boston, MA 2007
  • Creativity, learning and technology. Charla Magistral. LEGO and Pontificia Universidad Católica. Lima, Peru, 2007.
  • Compartiendo media programable generada por usuarios. Omar Dengo Foundation, San Jose, Costa Rica, 2007.
  • Cell Phones as Tool for Children as Social Scientist. (with Elisabeth Sylvan), Boston Learning Technology Conference, Boston MA, 2005.

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Invited workshops
  • Scratch and Robotics workshop for the Bradesco Institute of Technology. With Mitch Resnick. Campinas, Brasil, Nov 2008.
  • Scratch Workshop for Casa Telmex Facilitators of after school centers in disadvantaged communities. Mexico, City, Jan 2008.
  • Scratch for the web. Eleven-week apprenticeship with middle-school students at the Citizen Schools. Boston, Spring 2007.
  • Scratch programming and PicoCrickets invention workshops for kids and coordinators of the Computer Clubhouses. Mexico and Costa Rica, Jan 2007.
  • Systems Thinking. With Oren Zuckerman, Mexico. May, 2006
  • Integrating Art and Technology to Support Creative Thinking and Learning. Digital Future Conference. Aviemore, Scotland. May, 2006
  • Creative inventions with Crickets. Teen Summit, Boston, July 2006
  • PicoCrickets Workshop. Cyber Summit. Boys and Girls Club of Boston. April 2006.
  • Creatividad con Crickets. With Mitchel Resnick and Robbie Berg. Centro de Cultura Digital, Mexico, Jan 2006

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Other projects
  • Analysis of Kiva.org.
  • Codecaching. Geocaching game using camera phones by scanning Semacodes.
  • AskMobi. Web-based tool for kids to do social science surveys SMS (with L. Sylvan).

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Keywords
social software, social computing, computer supported cooperative work, human computer interfaces, technology for development, mobile devices, cloud computing, user-generated content

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