CV
Researcher profiles
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Work experience
 | 2023/12 — Today | Lecturer | The University of Manchester |
 | 2019/04 — 2023/12 | Assistant Professor 助教 | The University of Tokyo 東京大学 |
| 2018/10 — 2019/03 | Postdoctoral Researcher 特任研究員 | The University of Tokyo 東京大学 |
Education
| 2018 | Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering 博士（工） | The University of Tokyo 東京大学 |
 | 2018/02 — 2018/03 | Graduate Visiting Scholar | Johns Hopkins University |
| 2015/04 — 2015/09 | Graduate Research Student 研究生 | The University of Tokyo 東京大学 |
 | 2014 | MS in Electronic Systems and Automation Engineering Mestre em Engenharia de Sistemas Eletrônicos e de Automação | University of Brasilia Universidade de Brasilia |
| 2012 | BS in Mechatronics Engineering Bacharel em Engenharia Mecatrônica | University of Brasilia Universidade de Brasilia |
Talks
 | 2025/06 | Invited Speaker | (Semi) Autonomous Robots for Medicine, Space, Science, and Nuclear | Workshop 2: Robotics For Medical Applications and Scientific Exploration – euspen IC&E |
 | 2025/02 | Guest Lecture | Robotics for Medical Applications | MG2047 Advanced Manufacturing Equipment – KTH |
| 2025/01 | Invited Speaker | (Semi) Autonomous Robots | The Second University of Manchester and University of Tokyo Joint Research symposium – UTokyo |
| 2025/01 | Invited Speaker | (Semi) Autonomous Robots for Surgery, Science, Space, and Nuclear | SPRING GX Advanced Skills Training Lecture Series – UTokyo |
| 2024/12 | Invited Speaker | Developing a Multi-Arm Robotic Platform for Scientific Exploration | Winter School on Robotics & AI for Materials Chemistry – UoL |
| 2024/07 | Invited Speaker | (Semi) Autonomous Robots for Medicine, Space, Science, and Nuclear | 1st Symposium in Robotics in Biomedical Applications – KTH |
| 2024/02 | Guest Lecture | Robotics for Medical Applications | MG2047 Advanced Manufacturing Equipment – KTH |
| 2023/06 | Keynote Speaker | Using Dual Quaternion Algebra for Constrained Applications in Robots for Surgery, Science, and Space | Geometric Representations Workshop – ICRA’23 |
 | 2022/12 | Keynote Speaker | (Semi)Autonomous Robots for Medicine, Space, and Scientific Discovery | ‘The lab of the future, today’ – Laboratory Automation Workshop 2022 EPFL |
| 2022/07 | Keynote Speaker | Teleoperated Robots for Medicine and Science 医療・科学における遠隔操作ロボット | The 34th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Skull Base Surgery 第34回日本頭蓋底外科学会 |
Awards
| 2025 | The VSI Best-Research Poster Award | TAROS 2025: Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems |
| 2025 | High Commendation - Open Research Award | The University of Manchester |
| 2023 | Best Application Paper Award | 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’23) |
| 2021 | Dean’s commendation on Online/Hybrid class good practices オンライン授業・ハイブリッド授業のグッドプラクティス 東京大学総長表彰 | The University of Tokyo 東京大学 |
| 2019 | Overall Winner Award | Surgical Robot Challenge |
| 2019 | Best Innovation Award | Surgical Robot Challenge |
 | 2017 | Best Paper Runner-up Award | ACM International Workshop on Sensor-based Activity Recognition and Interaction |
Research grants
Active
Principal investigator
| | 2025 — 2026 | Academic Research Programme: Project 13 | — | RAICo Phase 2 |
| 2024 — 2025 | 2024-2025 Open Research Fellow | [Info] | Office for Open Research | |
| 2023 — 2026 | Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists 科研費若手 | 23K13287 | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 日本学術振興会 | |
| 2020 — 2023 | Cooperative Research Agreement | — | University of Tokyo-Osaka University-Toshiba | |
| 2019 — 2023 | Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists 科研費若手 | 19K14935 | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 日本学術振興会 |
Co-investigator
| | 2025 — 2026 | Academic Research Programme: Project 10 | — | RAICo Phase 2 |
| 2024/04 — 2025/03 | Academic Research Programme: Theme 3 | — | RAICo | |
| 2024/04 — 2025/03 | Academic Research Programme: Theme 2 | — | RAICo | |
| 2023/09 — 2024/02 | JUNO: A Network for Japan - UK Nuclear Opportunities Pump-Priming Project Scheme | — | UKRI | |
| 2020 — 2025 | Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) 科研費基盤研究（A) | 20H00227 | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 日本学術振興会 | |
| 2019 — 2024 | Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Pioneering) 科研費挑戦的（開拓) | 20K20489 | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 日本学術振興会 | |
| 2019 | Cooperative Research Agreement | — | University of Tokyo-Osaka University-Toshiba |
Participant
| 2020 — 2025 | Co-evolution of Human and AI-Robots to Expand Science Frontiers 人とAIロボットの創造的共進化によるサイエンス開拓 | JPMJPS2033-09 | Japan Science and Technology Agency 科学技術振興機構 |
Scholarships and travel grants
| 2018 | Overseas Travel Support | Graduate Program for Mechanical Systems Innovation (GMSI) |
| 2015 — 2018 | Research Student & Ph.D. Scholarship | Japanese Government (文部科学省:MEXT) |
| 2014 | Domestic Travel Support | Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) |
| 2012 — 2014 | Master’s Scholarship | Coodination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CNPq) |
| 2009 — 2010 | Undergraduate Scholarship | Coodination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CNPq) |
Graduate (co-)supervisions
UoM
PostDoc
- (ongoing) Dr Ahmed Soliman
PhD
- (ongoing) Naseel Sinan (with Dr Tingting Mu)
- (ongoing) Lewis Wheelhouse (with Dr Simon Watson and Prof. Andrew Weightman).
3Y Project
- 24—25: DH, MH, OS
4Y Project
- 24—25: Team 7
1Y MSc Project
- 24—25: JB, YZ, ZD, AT, MHSM, YW (6 Robotics)
- 23—24: SL, NS, HY, MN, DC (1 ACSE, 4 Robotics)
UTokyo
PostDoc
- Dr Juan José Quiroz Omaña (RAM24)
PhD
MS
- Jiawei Zhao
- Hung-Ching Lin
- Risa Oikawa (JMRCAS23)
- Hisashi Ishida (RAL20)
- Masakazu Yoshimura (ICRA20 and IROS21)
Memberships
- IEEE Senior Member
Languages
Feel free to contact me in
- Portuguese
- English
- Japanese