Pedro Machado
Senior Lecturer at Savvy Build
Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPedro Machado is a Senior Lecturer and researcher with over a decade of experience at the intersection of FPGA design, computer vision, neuromorphic hardware and robotics, currently completing a part-time PhD on FPGA-accelerated computational models of motion detection. He has led large-scale hardware neural network projects (including a 302-FPGA system) and develops tactile sensing and vision algorithms for object grasping, blending deep hands-on engineering with academic teaching and course leadership. Certified in Xilinx acceleration workflows and active in IEEE leadership and assessment roles, he bridges academic research, industry R&D and education. Notably, his work spans bio-inspired spiking neural networks to practical MPSoC/ACAP deployments, giving him a rare mix of biological modelling insight and production FPGA systems expertise.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Certificate Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, Postgraduate Certificate Learning and Teaching in Higher Education at Nottingham Trent UniversityIntegrated Master of Science in Electrical and Computers Engineering (BSc+MSc) Computer Science, Integrated Master of Science in Electrical and Computers Engineering (BSc+MSc) Computer Science at Universidade de CoimbraSecundary School Diploma Information Technology, Secundary School Diploma Information Technology at Escola Secundaria de Esmoriz
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (168)
image-processing10
realsense10
in-app-purchase10
intel10
camera10
sdk10
computer-vision10
payment-methods10
camera-api10
hardware10
package-json10
fxml9
code-generator9
jsonpath9
scene9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
SundanceMultiprocessorTechnology/VCS-1
Mar 2019 - Mar 2021
VCS-1 system
Contributions:1 review, 187 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years
vcs
CNCR-NTU/biotac_sp_ros
Feb 2019 - Nov 2019
Biotac SP ROS
Contributions:2 PRs, 55 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
rosros2
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