CV

Researcher profiles

• Google Scholar/Scopus profiles (for citations)
• ResearchGate profile (for researcher engagement)
• arXiv profile (for pre-prints)

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

	2024/07	Invited Speaker	(Semi) Autonomous Robots for Medicine, Space, Science, and Nuclear	1st Symposium in Robotics in Biomedical Applications
	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 – 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

	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

		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

		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 — Today	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) Lewis Wheelhouse (with Dr Simon Watson and Prof. Andrew Weightman).

3Y Project

• 2024-25: (ongoing) DH, MH, OS

4Y Project

• 2024: (ongoing) Team 7.

1Y MSc Project

• 2024: SL, NS, HY, MN, DC (1 ACSE, 4 Robotics)

UTokyo

PostDoc

• Dr Juan José Quiroz Omaña (RAM24)

PhD

• (ongoing) Hung-Ching Lin (ICRA24)
• (ongoing) Enduo Zhao (IROS23)
• Yuki Koyama (T-MRB22 and ICRA23)

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