Marco A. Gutiérrez is a PhD holder in cognitive vision planning for robotics systems and co-founder of GlideX, a startup in the field of AI for network security.

In 2015, he was granted the ARAP scholarship at the A*STAR I2R Human Language and Technology Department. Among his recent awards is the merit award at the “Singapore Challenge: The Science of Future Cities“. He was also finalist at the Entrepreneurship Forum and Start-up Competition (EFSC) at the 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'15) and received the merit award at the NVIDIA Jetson Developer Challenge for Artificial Intelligence.

Dr Marco has contributed to several free software robotics and AI related projects like RoboComp, the Point Cloud Library and Open Perception. He also served as organization administrator and mentor for these projects on several editions of the Google Summer of Code programme.

His areas of interest include cognitive vision, artificial intelligence, embedded systems and free software.