Rui Bettencourt
PHD Student at Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR-Lisboa)
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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Top SchoolRui Bettencourt is a robotics-focused PhD student and research engineer with eight years of experience in electrical and computer engineering, currently conducting research at the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR-Lisboa). Trained at Técnico Lisboa and DTU, he has hands-on experience building service-robotics systems and transitioned from a year as a research engineer into his current PhD role. Beyond academia, Rui has practical professional exposure from industry summer roles and brings strong teamwork instincts—evident from participation in SocRob@Home and a background as a footballer. He combines rigorous technical training with applied project work in service robotics, favoring collaborative, real-world problem solving.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
PhD, Robotics, PhD, Robotics at Técnico LisboaTechnical University of DenmarkIntegrated Masters, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Integrated Masters, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico
Portuguese, English, French
Github Skills (9)
ros9
robotics9
manipulator8
simulation6
robocup3
mobile3
bots2
speech-recognition1
huggingface1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
socrob/mbot_simulation_sa
Sep 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:15 commits, 11 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 7 months
rui-bettencourt/testsite
Aug 2024 - Aug 2025
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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