B.S. Computer Systems Engineering · TecNM Zacatepec

Alan Daleth
Hernández Barreto

Robotics · Quantum Computing · Competitive Programming

From competitive robotics arenas to papers at IEEE and Springer. If it doesn’t run on real hardware, it isn’t done.

Hi! I float, blink and think in qubits.
Chapter 01

The robot era

2016 – 2023

Twelve years of competitive robotics: mazes, sumo, line followers and insect bots. Gold, silver and bronze medals in national and international circuits, from Talent Land to RIOTRONIC Ecuador.

35+ medals
Chapter 02

Circuits & firmware

2023 – 2025

PCB design, embedded systems and home-built robots. The "Robot Maze" controller (Arduino Nano + TB6612FNG + Sharp) supported 35+ medals and is published on PCBWay.

PCB → shipped
Chapter 03

Quantum leap

2024 – present

SNN and GCN decoders for quantum error correction (Surface Codes d=3–7), nanosecond-scale neuromorphic kernels, and a personal pipeline: Stim → ML/SNN → RTL → FPGA.

IEEE qCCL 2026
Chapter 04
daleth@itech:~$ ./journey --since 2016 found 4 chapters · loading timeline… daleth@itech:~$ amaranth build rtl --to fpga bitstream flashed · 12 ns daleth@itech:~$

RTL & FPGA

2025 – present

From simulation to real hardware: architectures described in Amaranth HDL and Verilog, validated on FPGAs. Because if it doesn’t run on real hardware, it isn’t done.

Amaranth · Verilog
Chapter 05

Microprocessors

2025 – present

Microprocessor design for autonomous navigation, presented at the 1st National Oblea Multiproyecto TecNM Congress (CONAOM) with chip microfabrication alongside CIDESI.

CONAOM-TecNM
Chapter 06

The awake mind

2025 – present

Competitive programming and sovereign AI: 19th nationally at the 2025 ICPC Mexico Finals, 1st at Coding Cup Sinaloa, and Senior AI Engineer at IAMEX redesigning the RAG of the I’AM assistant.

ICPC · IAMEX
About

An engineer in training,
a ghost at heart

7th-semester Computer Systems Engineering student (TecNM Zacatepec) and independent researcher in quantum and neuromorphic computing. From competitive robotics arenas to papers accepted at IEEE, Springer, COMIA and bioinformatics conferences.

Working philosophy: “If it doesn’t run on real hardware, it isn’t done” and “latency beats elegance.”

35+ robotics medals
19th nationally · ICPC MX 2025
1st Coding Cup Sinaloa
10+ publications
36 GitHub repos
-10% RAG hallucinations · IAMEX
Awards

Medals, plaques
and records

From school robotics to national competitive programming finals.

2025

ICPC Mexico Finals

19th nationally · best team from Morelos ("Full-Time Plis")

2025

Coding Cup Sinaloa

1st place, ICPC Invited category + Top 5 overall

2025

Coding Cup TecNM

4th place nationally

2025

Google Programming Community Cup

14th nationally · 2nd regionally

2024

Google Programming Community Cup

2nd overall · 24th nationally

2024

Latin American Science & Tech Olympiad

Gold and Silver medals

2023

RIOTRONIC · Ecuador

Gold, Silver and Bronze medals (1,000+ students, 3 countries)

2023

Youth Science & Tech Career

Recognition from the Morelos State Congress (also 2024)

2022

OMI / National tournaments

Silver (OMI Morelos) · Gold at INTELIBOTS and Valle de Bravo

2018

Early days

Talent Land · OMRI · Cotorra Math Olympiad

Research

Publications
& conferences

IEEE, Springer, COMIA, MEXCIR and TecNM proceedings. Personal pipeline: Stim → ML/SNN → RTL → FPGA.

2026

Nanosecond-Scale Neuromorphic Processing Kernels for Quantum Error Correction

IEEE qCCL 2026 · Aalborg, Denmark
Accepted
2026

Overthinking the Obstacle: GCN-SNN for Robots that Prefer Not to Crash

MEXCIR 2026 · Zacatecas
Accepted
2026

Dual-Memory Graph Attention Networks for Robust Hub Protein Detection

Trajectories 2026
Accepted
2026

AFM-GAT: Adaptive Feature Modulation in Graph Attention Networks

Trajectories 2026
Accepted
2026

Overcoming the Computational Bottleneck in QEC: Ultra-Low Latency SNN Decoders

COMIA 2026 · SMIA / Springer
Accepted
2026

My LLM Needs a Therapist

ICAIMH 2026
Accepted
2026

Outsourcing Arithmetic: Stateful Sandboxes and Entropy-Weighted Consensus for Olympiad Math

CITCA 2026 · oral presentation
Accepted
2025

Dynamic Drone Mesh Network for Scalable Quantum Key Distribution

Tecnología y Ciencia Aplicada 8(2) · ISSN 2992-8338
Published
2025

Design and Modeling of Integrated Circuits for Environmental Sensing, Biomedical and Microfluidic Applications

CITCA 2025
Published
2025

Simulation of Secure Mobile Robot Communications Using QKD

CITCA 2025
Published
Skills

The full stack

AI / LLMs

RAGLangChainLangGraphLoRASNNGNNHugging FaceOpenCVMediaPipe

Languages

PythonC++Node.jsReactAstroViteLLVM

Hardware

Amaranth HDLVerilogKLayoutFPGAPCBEmbedded

Competitive

ICPCCodeforcesAlgorithmsData StructuresMath
Contact

Let’s talk
about ideas?

Projects, research collaborations, robotics or competitive programming. I reply fast… unless I’m debugging.