CV

Short Bio

Rui P. Rocha is a tenured Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of University of Coimbra and a Senior Researcher in the Institute of Systems and Robotics – University of Coimbra (ISR-UC), both at University of Coimbra in Portugal. He received the Engineering degree, the M.Sc. degree, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, in 1996, 1999 and 2006, respectively. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. His main research area is cooperative mobile robotics and his main research interests are multi-robot systems, human-robot team cooperation, distributed control, cooperative perception, efficient information sharing, and autonomous robots. He has been involved in several FP6 and FP7 European funded R&D projects developed in consortium for the past few years and was PI of a nationally funded research project on cooperation between human teams and robotic teams in urban search and rescue scenarios. He is the co-author of about 100 papers published in ISI-indexed scientific journals, book chapters, and proceedings of peer-reviewed international scientific conferences. He began his career as an electrical engineer in EFACEC Automation and Robotics company, where he worked between Oct. 1996 and Jan. 2000 in the development of automated material handling devices based on AGVs and participated in the design of such systems for important customers, such as Bank of China in Hong Kong and Repsol YPF refinery in Argentina. He began his career as a teacher at Department of Informatics of University of Minho, where he taught digital systems and microelectronics between Nov. 1998 and Feb. 2000, before joining University of Coimbra as a teaching assistant and ISR-UC as a researcher.

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Highlights

· Associate Professor, tenure position, at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology at University of Coimbra since May 2021 (current position).

· Senior Member of IEEE since Dec. 2015.

· Assistant Professor, tenure position, at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology at University of Coimbra, between May 2011 and May 2021.

· Assistant Professor, tenure track position, at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology at University of Coimbra, between May 2006 and May 2011.

· Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, May 8, 2006.
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· Teaching Assistant at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology at University of Coimbra, between Feb. 2000 and May 2006.

· Researcher at the Institute of Systems and Robotics - University of Coimbra, since Dec. 2000.

· Junior Teaching Assistant at the Department of Informatics of the University of Minho, between Nov. 1998 and Feb. 2000.

· M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Mar. 22, 1999.
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· Colaboration with enterprise EFACEC Automation and Robotics, between Oct. 1996 and Jan. 2000.

· Eng. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, Jul. 31, 1996.

· Born on May 13, 1973, in Castelo de Paiva, Aveiro district, north of Portugal.

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Last update: 10/05/2021