About me
I am a Lecturer in Robotics with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. I am currently based at RAICo1. I hold a visitor scholar position (客員研究員) at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, at the Harada Laboratory.
I have a BS (2012) in Mechatronics Engineering and MS (2014) in Electronic Systems and Automation Engineering from the University of Brasilia. I obtained a PhD (2018) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tokyo. I was an Assistant Professor (助教) at the University of Tokyo until late 2023.
Opportunities
Please note: I am unable to respond to cold emails about unlisted opportunities.
Open opportunities (if any) for Ph.D, Research Assistant (RA), and Research Associate (PDRA) in my group are posted on my LinkedIn, UoM jobs page, and FindAPhd.
Prospective MSc dissertation project students must be enrolled in programmes such as the Robotics MSc or ACSE MSc. The students will be allocated accordingly to EEEN60070 or EEEN60770 handbook information. Please check the handbook for information related to bespoke project proposals if applicable.
Prospective third-year project students will be assigned according to EEEN30330 rules. Please check the handbook for information related to bespoke project proposals if applicable.
Research
My work has been focused on teleoperated and/or (semi-)automomous robots applied to medicine and scientific exploration. Notably
- Pediatric surgery: ICRA19, RAL20, T-MRB21, and JMRCAS23.
- Eye surgery: T-MRB22, ICRA23, and IJMRCAS25.
- Neurosurgery: T-RO19 and IJMRCAS20.
- Scientific exploration: IROS23, RAM24, ICRA24, and T-ASE2025.
Those implementations are based on a rigourous constrained kinematic robot control framework suitable for all sorts of robots.
- (Adaptive) constrained kinematic control: T-RO19 and T-RO22.
- Software implementation and system integration: IJMRCAS20, RAM21, and RAM24.