Experience
Conducting my Master’s Thesis under the project RobotChain entitled:
- RobotChain: Artifical Intelligence on a Blockchain using Tezos technology
This research is funded by Tezos Foundation.
Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) for the lective year of 2018/2019 at University of Beira Interior.
Developed projects with focus on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.
Worked on different projects:
- Algorithms for Robot Grasping
- BombUBI (Firefigher Robot)
Learned and worked with different technologies and built robots from scratch:
- ROS
- PCL
- OpenCV
- TensorFlow & TFLearn
- Raspberry PI
- Arduino
Work in scope of the Project uPATO (Ultimate Performance Analysis Tool). Researcher and software developer. Fully developed the android application. Participated and conducted workshops that were conducted for the dissemination of the uPATO tool.
uPATO Website: upato.it.ubi.pt/
I was a Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) for the lective year of 2016/2017 at University of Beira Interior.
While MSP I’ve organized and co-organized events such as Microsoft IoT Labs @ UBI which had 40 participants (max capacity) that worked with Raspberry Pi and Azure for a whole day.
I’ve also conducted presentations on the campus about Microsoft technologies, such as:
- Microsoft Flow
- Xamarin
- Microsoft Bot Framework & Microsoft Cognitive Services
Projects
TwitterAnalysis - Project that allows anyone to analyze a Twitter profile and receive information about suicidal tendencies, tweet sentiment, complete profile analysis, profanity detection among others. (On the verge of being public)
Knowhau - Cross-platform application to engage with beacon technology. The content to be delivered can be updated in a web page, and users can receive notification on their mobile phones.
Algorithms for Robot Grasping - Consisted on a set of algorithms that can detect grasp position on novel objects on unknown positions and execute a robotic movement to grasp the object.
Escritor Surrealista - Academic project where we developed a game for mobile devices (Android). The game is based on story creation, where each player writes a piece of it, and passes to the next player who, seeing only the final part that the previous player wrote, tries to continue the story.
SimpleRecruiting - Web and Mobile recruitment application. Developed using the OutSystems development tool. The application was intended to be used by a recruiter of a company. He could manage the candidates, set up interviews, examinations and open new job offers, among other features.
XIUUU: Secure Way to Exchange Cryptographic Secrets - The XIUUU application aims at the exchange of secrets in a secure way between two entities (using Computer Security knowledge). The communication of these secrets is done using algorithms and cryptographic protocols, which makes the process of secrecy exchange more secure and reliable.
PokeBan - Recretion of the famous game Sokoban with graphics from Pokemon, this was developed with C and OpenGL and was capable of receiving hand-made levels and create the 3D scenario.
TuTubo - Command-line application (developed using C programming language, which consisted on aggregating information about opinions issued and received in order to detect cycles (to detect possible scams, 2 persons giving good opinions about each other all the time) and define e priority users in terms of advertising. This project was heavily based on data-structures.
Certifications & Courses
Certificate earned on May 6, 2017.
Google Developer Challenge Scholarship: Android Dev
2018
Linux Essentials
2018
Publications
An Overview of Blockchain Integration with Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
Symposium on Blockchain for Robotic Systems, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA
An Overview of Blockchain Integration with Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
CoRR, abs/1810.00329, 2018.
Less is More: Simplifying Point Clouds to Improve Grasping Performance
18th IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions, Torres Vedras, Portugal, 2018
Improving Grasping Performance by Segmentation of Large Planar Surfaces
23rd Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, RECPAD 2017, Lisbon, Portugal, October 27, 2017
Awards
2nd place in Hack the Brain - HealthTech Hackathon with over 30 participants
UBIMedical & MedUBI & NINF
Bronze medallist in Maratona Inter Universitária de Programação 2018 (MIUP'18)
MIUP'18 (Programming Contest)
Best student award relative to the conclusion of Bachelor's at Computer Science and Engineering
University of Beira Interior & Fundão City Council
Best student award relative to the 3rd year of Bachelor's at Computer Science and Engineering
University of Beira Interior - Informatics Department
Best student award relative to the 2nd year of Bachelor's at Computer Science and Engineering
University of Beira Interior - Informatics Department
First Place in the Project organised by OutSystems which consisted in the creation of a Web and Mobile application to manage the recruiting process of a company.
OutSystems & University of Beira Interior
Skills
Python
ROS
Java
OpenCV
C & C++
Scikit, NLTK
OCaml
Numpy, Pandas
Matlab
Tensorflow
C#
SQL
Latex
HTML, CSS, PHP
Volunteering
Vice-President of the Board of the Student Group NESDUBI
Campus Ambassador of ENEI'18
Student representative of the 1st year in Masters of Computer Science and Engineering
Monitor at Summer University - University of Beira Interior
Mentor at Ignite Your Future 2017 (Team got 2nd place out of 31 teams)
Member of the Board of the Student Group NESDUBI
Student representative of the 3rd year in Computer Science and Engineering
Member of the Board of the Student Group NESDUBI
Student representative of the 2nd year in Computer Science and Engineering
Student representative of the 1st year in Computer Science and Engineering
Participated in the organization of multiple actions to collect food and clothing.