Dominic Orozco — HTBAA Fall 2026

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About me

I’m Dominic Uriel Orozco Salgado, an undergraduate Biomedical Engineering student at Universidad de Guadalajara (2023–present), with a prior technical degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from CETI (2019–2023). I currently work as an Undergraduate Researcher in Biofabrication and Research Assistant in the Department of Translational Bioengineering / Biodigital Innovation Lab.

My work sits at the intersection of biofabrication, embedded systems, and computer vision. A few things I’m currently building or have recently finished:

  • Undergraduate thesis (in progress): a project on functionalized electrospun fibers, currently exploring fibers that combine electrospinning with cell-free synthetic biology to visually detect hazardous environmental agents (e.g., gaseous formaldehyde) — the direction I’m also developing through this course.
  • Ocularis: a computer-vision-based augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) system for users with severe motor impairments, using oculomotor tracking (MediaPipe FaceMesh, blink detection, gaze calibration). First-author contribution, finalist at CNIB2026, accepted for publication in the CNIB2026 proceedings (Springer); currently exploring a connectome-constrained neural network (based on the Drosophila optic lobe) as an alternative detection pipeline.
  • Bioprinting environmental control chamber: designed the electronics and control code (independent PID loops for temperature and humidity) for a low-cost chamber retrofitted onto a Prusa i3, to support consistent bioprinting conditions. Oral presentation accepted at ISBF26.
  • EEG / neurosemantics: contributing EEG signal processing and spectral analysis to a study on oscillatory traits and contextual states during naturalistic narrative comprehension (manuscript in preparation).

I’m interested in how biofabrication, low-cost embedded hardware, and biology can combine into accessible, real-world tools — whether that’s a communication device, a bioprinting platform, or a sensor you can wear.

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Homework, Labs, and Projects

See the nav bar on the left to look through my work for How To Biomanufacture Almost Anything (Fall 2026)!