I’m a PhD student at the Institute of Systems and Robotics, University of Coimbra, working on robotic perception for autonomous navigation with an emphasis on multimodal sensing and robust environment understanding.

Highlights

👨🏻‍💻 Current position: PhD student/Researcher at the Institute of Systems and Robotics — University of Coimbra.

🔎 Research interests: Computer Vision • Machine Learning • Robotics • Multimodal Sensing • Object Detection & Tracking.

📕 Selected publications

• Safer and Trustworthier Navigation of Automated Vehicles (CSCS 2025). Publication
• A Modular Multimodal Multi-Object Tracking-by-Detection Approach (ICINCO 2024). Publication

🚀 Selected projects

• GreenAuto (Green innovation for the automotive industry) — Role: Researcher.
• XPro (Explainable Probabilistic Models for Robot Applications) — Role: Visiting researcher; collaboration with University of Greifswald, Germany.

🏆 Awards & funding

• FCT PhD Studentship (4-year PhD studentship starting in 2025).
• ABB-FCTUC Award — Best Master’s dissertation (2024).

🛠️ Skills & tools: Python (PyTorch, OpenCV), C, MATLAB, ROS, Point-Cloud Processing, ML for Perception.

If you’d like to collaborate or hear about datasets / code, drop me a message.