Nigel Dias
Lead Robotics Researcher at Synkar Autonomous
Goiás, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolNigel Dias is a Lead Robotics Researcher with eight years of experience specializing in robotic vision, visual odometry, and Visual SLAM, currently driving research and development at Synkar Autonomous while pursuing a PhD at Universidade Federal de Goiás. He combines academic rigor—master’s work on multi-view geometry and video object tracking—with hands-on systems experience in ROS, C/C++, Python, sensor fusion and state estimation for real-world robotic platforms. Nigel has a track record of translating research into competition-ready robotics systems from his time at the Pequi Mecânico lab and recognition at the Latin American Robotics Competition. Comfortable moving between low-level camera geometry and applied mapping/localization pipelines, he also brings mobile and backend development experience from earlier industry roles. Pragmatic and research-driven, he actively publishes code and projects on GitHub to bridge prototypes and production.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Universidade Federal de Goiás
English, Portuguese
Github Skills (11)
ros8
emc7
computer-vision7
darknet7
object-detection6
ieee6
libreoffice6
deep-learning6
gerrit6
zip6
cpp3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
naidjeldias/kltvo
Sep 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 release, 30 PRs, 73 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Synkar/vision_opencv
Jul 2020 - Jul 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
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