Marcelo Jacinto
Doctoral Student at Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR-Lisboa)
Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
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Top SchoolMarcelo Jacinto is an Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD candidate at Instituto Superior Técnico with eight years of experience bridging academic research and practical robotics software. He has focused on cooperative path following and control of underactuated marine vehicles and UAVs at ISR- Lisboa, contributing to ROS C++ codebases and deployment tooling for real-world trials. Marcelo has experience as a scientific researcher and visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon, and brings hands-on backend engineering skills from a Mercedes‑Benz.io internship where he built microservices, containerized deployments, and migration tools. He teaches programming and autonomous systems, signaling strong communication and mentoring abilities alongside his technical depth. Colleagues value his blend of rigorous control-theory research and pragmatic software engineering for field robotics.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Integrated Masters, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Integrated Masters, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
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Github Skills (23)
simulation10
algorithms10
artificial-intelligence10
px410
python10
omniverse10
nvidia-isaac10
core-package9
control-systems8
ros8
simulator7
medusa7
robotics7
isr6
3d5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dsor-isr/medusa_simulation
Jan 2022 - May 2022
Underwater 3D Simulation Environment
Contributions:34 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 4 months
3dsimulationrovsimulatorauvs
PegasusResearch/pegasus
May 2024 - Apr 2026
Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) software package for controlling autonomous drones using ROS 2
Contributions:19 PRs, 126 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 11 months
rosguidancenavigationros2
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