João Quintas
Coordinator Of RTD - Automatics Lab
Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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Top SchoolJoão Quintas is a robotics and automation researcher with a PhD from the University of Coimbra and over a decade coordinating RTD activities at Instituto Pedro Nunes, where he leads projects in Active and Assisted Living and intelligent environments. He combines hands-on technical management of European and national research programmes (FP7, H2020, AAL, P2020) with academic roles as invited assistant professor and research associate at ISR-UC. His research blends artificial social companions, context-aware human–machine interaction and human behaviour analysis—fields explored in a PhD thesis on context-based interaction frameworks and in more than 30 published works and book chapters. João is also engaged in standards work, contributing to the IEEE AuR Ontology (1872.2) and ethics-related standards (IEEE 7000), which underlines his interest in trustworthy autonomous systems. Known for bridging applied research and project delivery, he brings uncommon expertise in turning multidisciplinary academic knowledge into deployable AAL solutions.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Automation and Robotics, PhD, Automation and Robotics at Universidade de CoimbraEscola Secundária D. Sancho II, Elvas
Portuguese, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (16)
lists9
ros9
pydev9
pandas6
configurations6
virtual-machine6
latex6
kinect6
python6
matplotlib6
django6
editor4
docker-image2
dockerfile2
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
joaoquintas/knowrob
May 2015 - Dec 2022
Contributions:4 pushes in 7 years 9 months
joaoquintas/aurora
Aug 2020 - Feb 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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