Vinicius Da Fonseca
Associate Professor
St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolVinicius Da Fonseca is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland with 11 years of experience bridging robotics research and hands-on system implementation. His work focuses on tactile sensing, robotic manipulation, human-robot interaction, and applied machine learning, combining theoretical rigor from a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering with practical expertise in ROS, microcontrollers, and embedded systems. He progressed from teaching and research assistant roles at the University of Ottawa to faculty positions, bringing extensive course and lab mentorship experience across robotics, operating systems, and computer architecture. Known for translating sensor-rich experimental platforms into publishable results, he also has a background in web and cryptography research, reflecting a broad systems-oriented mindset. Based in St. John’s, he blends academic leadership with practical engineering, often integrating low-level hardware work with high-level AI to improve robot tactile perception and interaction.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Systems and Computing, MSc, Systems and Computing at Instituto Militar de EngenhariaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of OttawaBSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Universidade Federal do Tocantins
French, Portuguese, English
Stackoverflow
1,905reputation
340kreached
3answers
3questions
linux
top-5%
ssh
top-5%
ip-address
top-5%
network-programming
top-1%
Github Skills (46)
network-programming10
ip-address9
linux9
ssh9
html6
arduino6
ros6
bubble-sort6
django-models6
touchscreen6
code-completion6
forms6
python6
django6
robotics6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vncprado/vncprado.github.io
Nov 2015 - May 2020
My github.io website
Contributions:1 PR, 96 pushes, 3 comments in 4 years 6 months
jekyll
vncprado/intro-to-c
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:45 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.