Designer, professor, and researcher at the intersection of art and technology

His path through design has been anything but straight. Over the years, Huoston has developed concepts, interfaces, 3D visualizations, animations, and brand identities for companies across industries and continents. He has worked with Nubank, Itaú, Natura, Tanqueray, Stella Artois, Hot Wheels, Hamilton Watches, Delta Air Lines, Ford, Coca-Cola, Ubisoft, FILA, Le Creuset, KitchenAid, and Innocent Drinks, among others.

His expertise spans Art Direction, Interaction Design, Motion Design, 3D Animation, and Compositing, with a focus on experiences that connect digital and physical environments.

In 2013, Huoston co-founded Timokids, an edutainment app for preschool children published in four languages across more than 190 countries. It reached 150,000 downloads in its first months. The venture won two national stages of Brazil's DEMO competition and earned him a spot at Silicon Valley's DEMO Fall Conference in 2014, the same platform that launched Salesforce, VMware, TiVo, and Evernote.

After returning from California, he made a deliberate choice: step back from the pace of the industry and pursue a long-held dream of an academic career.

What started as a change of pace became something deeper. During his Master in Information Technology and Knowledge Management, Huoston first encountered computational intelligence techniques like natural language processing and computer vision, fields that would later reshape entire industries.

His doctoral research let him pursue what he truly loves: Virtual Reality and Serious Games. He proposed a methodology for immersive training that was validated by 141 professionals and academics from eleven countries.