Mentoring
Supervision
Students I supervise and co-supervise across robotics, physical AI, and human-robot interaction.
I am currently the Technical Leader of a team of 30-50 members in an industry-funded project at the University of Sao Paulo.
Co-supervision — PhD
Thiago Segreto
Embodied vision-language learning for navigation and mobile manipulation
Juliano Negri
Development of learning-based approaches for robust locomanipulation tasks
Pedro Leon Fontes Cardoso Bazan
Contact estimation and sensing for contact-rich robotic manipulation
Co-supervision — MSc
Victor Van Halst
Towards dexterous manipulation using quadruped robots: from data collection to real-time deployment
Co-supervision — Undergraduate
Dilermando Alexandre
Viewpoint-agnostic grasping using VLMs and partial observations for locomanipulation
Guilherme Lazzarini
Development and evaluation of grasping frameworks and sim-to-real transfer for locomanipulation
Ana Luiza
Real-time anomaly detection for predictive shared control in human-robot collaboration
Enzo Ferreira
Design and integration of modular, accessible manipulation test boards for evaluating grasping capabilities
Matheus Hipolito
Deployment of shared-control schemes for robust locomanipulation
Murilo Vinicius
Deployment of shared-control schemes for robust locomanipulation