Héctor Azpúrua
Adjunct Professor at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Top SchoolHéctor Azpúrua is a robotics and AI researcher turned adjunct professor with 12 years of experience building perception-driven systems, industrial R&D, and scalable machine learning pipelines. He combines deep academic credentials (PhD, robotics and computer vision master’s) with hands-on industry work—contributing to DARPA SubT efforts at JPL, deploying predictive analytics for mining, and engineering similarity analysis at Meta. Equally at home writing efficient algorithms or hacking for security, he leverages a background in software development and penetration testing to produce robust, secure solutions for repetitive and hazardous tasks. A founding member of the Brazilian Robotics Society and active VeRLab contributor, he excels at turning complex sensor and AI research into practical fielded systems. Notably, his portfolio spans aerial magnetometric mapping to multimodal similarity systems, reflecting a rare blend of field robotics, perception, and production-scale ML.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA Project Management, Master of Business Administration - MBA Project Management at USP - Universidade de São PauloBachelor's degree Computer science, Bachelor's degree Computer science at Universidad Nueva EspartaDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (175)
ros10
ellipse10
brazil10
robotics10
autopilot10
drones10
detector10
tagging10
parrot9
mavlink9
mesh9
genetic9
3d-models9
3d-reconstruction9
computer-vision9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
h3ct0r/AndroidAutomaticPicTaker
May 2014 - Jun 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes in 2 years 1 month
h3ct0r/fast_ellipse_detector
Jan 2017 - Jan 2021
This is the implementation in C++ of the paper: 'A fast and effective ellipse detector for embedded vision applications'
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 4 years
visionellipseeffectivecomputer-visiondetector
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