About

Hi, I’m Marco — an Intelligent Systems Engineering major at DePaul who studies how sensing, computation, and actuators cooperate to build responsive systems.

My favorite work lives where prototypes feel like lab experiments. I map out the physics, wire up instrumentation, then iterate on control logic and software until the system behaves the way the model predicted. That mix of theory, data, and hands-on debugging is what keeps me up refining experiments long after midnight.

I got hooked early. At seven I was remixing Scratch projects; by nine I was convincing my mom to send me to a camp so I could mod Minecraft. Those early projects led me from scripting to low-level systems, then into the worlds of embedded design, signal processing, and intelligent automation.

Today I’m fascinated by control systems, autonomy, and the computational tools that help engineers reason about complex environments. Whether I’m building a feedback loop, tuning a perception pipeline, or designing software for hardware with tight constraints, I love translating scientific models into something you can watch, measure, and improve.

Outside of the lab, I sharpen my pattern recognition by playing chess and competitive FPS titles like TF2. The strategic thinking, situational awareness, and constant iteration echo the mental loops I rely on when engineering resilient systems.

I’m looking for opportunities that blend research, intelligent systems, and rigorous engineering — the kind of teams where building smarter infrastructure or robots means running experiments, interrogating data, and shipping reliable tools.