Dr. Ismael Sánchez-Osorio
Assistant Research Professor - Department of Bioengineering
Bio & Research Focus
Dr. Ismael Sanchez-Osorio is an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Colorado, where he leads pioneering initiatives to integrate hardware-software codesign and AI-driven systems into Socially Assistive Robots (SARs). His work focuses on enhancing the utility of SARs for older adults and individuals with cognitive impairments. Committed to developing technology that addresses the needs of vulnerable populations, he strives to create robots that not only interact but also form emotional connections with users, thereby improving their quality of life through enriched cognitive and social engagement.
Dr. Sanchez-Osorio holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science and a degree in Electronics Engineering from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico. Previously, as co-founder and technical leader of a robotics startup, he led the development of one of the world's most advanced robotic avatar systems. This innovative work ranked in the top ten of the ANA Avatar XPRIZE and earned a place in the XPRIZE Hall of Fame. The system enabled an immersive experience that closely mimicked real-time human physical presence at remote locations through a humanoid robot equipped with haptic controls and robust multimodal feedback.
Socially Assistive Robotics
Safe and Intuitive Human-Robot Physical Interaction
High-performance Multimodal Telerobotics
Hardware-Software Architectures for Embodied AI Systems
Education
PhD, Computer Science
Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Monterrey, MX
2013
B.SC., Electronic Systems Engineering
Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Monterrey, MX
2006
Academic Positions
Assistant Research Professor
University of Colorado
2025 - Present
Coleman Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow
University of Colorado
2024 - 2025
Visiting Researcher
Center for Research and Advanced Studies, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico
2016 - 2018
Selected Publications
- Ismael Sánchez-Osorio*, Carlos Hernández-Martínez, and Agustino Martínez-Antonio (2017). Exploring Asymmetric Cell Division in Caulobacter Crescentus Using Logic Modeling. In Jacek Kubiak and Jean-Pierre Tassan (Eds.), Asymmetric Cell Division in Development, Differentiation and Cancer. (pp. 1-21). Springer International Publishing.
- Ismael Sánchez-Osorio*, Carlos Hernández-Martínez and Agustino Martínez-Antonio. (2020). Quantitative modeling of the interplay between synthetic gene circuits and host physiology: experiments, results, and prospects. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 55:48-56.
- Edgardo Galán-Vásquez, Ismael Sánchez-Osorio and Agustino Martínez-Antonio*. Transcription factors exhibit differential conservation in bacteria with genome reduction. Plos One. 2016; 11(1): e0146901.
- Ismael Sánchez-Osorio*, Fernando Ramos, Edgar Dantán. Foundations for modeling the dynamics of gene regulatory networks: a multilevel perspective review. J Bioinform Comput Biol. 2014; 12(1):1330003
- César Quiñones-Valles, Ismael Sánchez-Osorio, Agustino Martínez-Antonio*. Dynamical modeling of the cell cycle and cell fate emergence in Caulobacter crescentus. Plos One. 2014; 9(11): e111116
- da Silva, L. B., Almeida, D., Nacif, J. A. M., Sánchez-Osorio, I., Hernández-Martínez, C. A., & Ferreira, R* (2017). Exploring the dynamics of large-scale gene regulatory networks using hardware acceleration on a heterogeneous CPU-FPGA platform. In ReConFigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig), 2017 International Conference on (pp. 1-7). IEEE.
- Elías-García, A., Hernandez-Martinez, C. A., Esqueda-Almanza, R., Rojas-Santana, A., & Sánchez-Osorio, I.* (2021). Fast fabrication of optomechanical mounts using additive manufacturing. In Flat Optics: Components to Systems (pp. JTu1A-27). Optical Society of America.