GONZALO MORALES

I'm a Designer & Engineer based in London, working at the intersection of software, hardware and human-centered design.

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Design Engineer @
HUAWEI HMI Lab

Innovation Design Engineering @
Imperial College & Royal College of Art

La Caixa Foundation Fellow

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Interaction Design Machine Learning Signal processing

ACADEMIC PROJECT:

Gestura

Universal, spatial control of home devices using low-cost, magnet based technology. Read more about my Year 1 solo project as an IDE student at Imperial College London.

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Project Management Product Development User Experience

INDUSTRY PROJECT:

Interactive Paper

Bridging the gap between analog and digital advertising. Find out more about my work as Lead Product Engineer at this successful startup.

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Accessibility Interaction Design Navigation

MAKEATHON PROJECT:

TouchNav

What if we could feel the contents of a screen instead of having to look at it? Check out our prototype for the Huawei-sponsored Interaction Makeathon.

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Dynamic simulation Software development Education

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING FINAL THESIS:

AutoLAB

Designing & developing the vehicle dynamics simulator now used at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Read more about my final project as a Mechanical Engineering student.

Design Engineer @

HUAWEI HMI Lab

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ROS Robotics Mechanical Design Cross-platform development

RESEARCH PROJECT:

ROBOGait

A user-friendly, gait analysis robot for healthcare professionals. Discover more about my Research Collaboration work at the Robotics Department of ETSIDI UPM

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HCD, Inclusive Design Wearables. Sensing technologies

ACADEMIC PROJECT:

TrailSense

Helping blind hikers navigate with confidence by transforming the natural sounds around them into spatial cues.

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I'm Gonzalo,

an engineer and designer pursuing innovative solutions in the tech field using human-centered design and engineering. My work revolves primarily around bridging the empty space between new technologies and end-users —several of my professional and academic projects being about human interaction with new products. Versatile in a variety of technical disciplines, I am particularly experienced in the fields of Augmented Reality, Robotics and Mechatronics.

EDUCATION

2023-25 MSc/MA Innovation Design Engineering
Imperial College London & Royal College of Art
Sponsor: La Caixa Foundation. Grade: Distinction
2016-21 BEng Mechanical Engineering &
BEng Industrial Design Engineering

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
9 Top Honors, 4 Academic Excellence Scholarships
↳ 2018-19 Erasmus Scholarship
Politecnico di Torino
2015-16 ASSIST Scholarship
Westtown School, PA, USA

WORK

2025- Innovation Experience Designer
Huawei R&D UK, HMI Lab
2024 Robotics Engineering Intern
KAIKAKU AI
2021-23 Lead Product Engineer
Interactive Paper
2021 Robotics Research Collaboration Scholar
Universidad Politénica de Madrid

Explore some of my projects here!

LANGUAGES

English (C2), Spanish (native), French (C1), German (B1), Italian (B1)