Joao Bimbo
Assistant Professor at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
Portugal
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Top SchoolJoao Bimbo is an Assistant Professor and robotics researcher with 12 years of experience bridging academic research and hands-on robot systems development. He holds a PhD in Robotics from King’s College London and has held postdoctoral positions at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and Yale, bringing expertise in robot grasping and automation to university teaching roles in Portugal. His trajectory combines deep control and automation training from Coimbra and DTU with practical platform implementation experience dating back to a robotics software project at King’s College. Now based at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, he focuses on translating advanced manipulation research into teachable curricula and experimentally validated systems. Colleagues note his rare mix of rigorous theory and pragmatic engineering, often steering projects from concept to working robot demonstrations.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Electrical Engineering - Automation and Control, MSc, Electrical Engineering - Automation and Control at Universidade de CoimbraPhD, Robotics, PhD, Robotics at King's College LondonTechnical University of Denmark
English, Portuguese, Italian
Github Skills (19)
grasp9
python9
discounts9
unlock9
lookup8
mac-address8
environmental7
constraint6
kd-tree5
approximate5
nearest-neighbors4
neighbors4
intrinsics1
object-detection1
structure-from-motion1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
joaobimbo/joaobimbo.github.io
Jan 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
joaobimbo/fsmore
Aug 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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