Roberto Figueiredo
Visiting Researcher at University of Hertfordshire
Barcelos, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolRoberto Figueiredo is a robotics and AI researcher with 11 years of hands-on experience bridging academic research and competitive robotics, currently a Visiting Researcher at the University of Hertfordshire and a Masters/PhD candidate at Universidade de Aveiro. He brings strong Python and ROS expertise, applied in roles from a data scientist trainee at Dott to student research on inverse problems and machine-learning‑assisted diagnostics. An active RoboCup humanoid competitor and local chair for the Rescue Simulation League, he combines practical robot control and reinforcement learning interests with leadership in team-based competitions. Awarded the Paul Lidgett prize for academic excellence and initiative, Roberto is particularly focused on robotic walking and leveraging hypergeometric-function approaches to real-world health-science inverse problems.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor (Honours), Computer science - Artificial intelligence, First class - 19/20, Bachelor (Honours), Computer science - Artificial intelligence, First class - 19/20 at University of HertfordshireDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics & AI, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics & AI at Universidade de AveiroScience and technology, Science and technology at Escola secundária de Barcelinhos
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (12)
react5
generator5
javascript4
graph4
visualization3
open-source3
typescript3
flowchart3
beam2
arduino2
arduino-ide2
ide2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
robertofiguz/Omnidirectional-Barcelinhos
Jun 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch, 6 issues in 3 years 6 months
CSDET10/GP3
Feb 2020 - Jun 2020
GP3 BEAM System Implementation
Contributions:57 PRs, 136 pushes, 59 branches in 3 months
beam
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