teaching
Materials for courses and talks
2025
I recently gave a talk about the CPFL Adução project at the Instituto Federal de São Paulo (IFSP) during SNCT 2025. The audience consisted of undergraduate engineering students, and the experience was both motivating and inspiring, a great opportunity to share technical insights and discuss real-world applications of engineering principles.
2023
ITA
I was invited to give a lecture in the graduate course EE-214 – Inteligência Artificial em Controle e Automação (Artificial Intelligence in Control and Automation) at ITA (Aeronautics Institute of Technology). The session focused on Generative and Language Models, covering the following topics:
- Autoencoders;
- Variational Autoencoders (VAEs)
- Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs);
- Diffusion models;
- Attention in Language models;
- Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs);
Here are some pictures of the lecture.
UFMA
I also delivered a series of 4 lectures in the undergraduate course TEEE – Robótica Móvel Probabilística (Probabilistic Mobile Robotics) at UFMA (Federal University of Maranhao). The primary goal of these sessions was to introduce students to the use of ROS and Gazebo for simulating autonomous robotic tasks through probabilistic modeling and inference methods.
Here are the resources used in these lectures:
- Introduction to ROS (Slides in portuguese , video)
- Introduction to Gazebo simulator (Slides in portuguese , video)
- The gmapping package (Slides in portuguese , video)
- The amcl and move_base packages (Slides in portuguese , video)
SBAI in Manaus, AM
Oral presentation for my two accepted papers:
- Map Merging of OctoMaps using Fiducial Marker Pose Estimation for Multi-robot Exploration (Slides in english)
- Implementação de Uma Solução para SLAM em 2D usando Scanner a Laser e Correspondência entre as Linhas do Ambiente (Slides in portuguese )
2015
I gave a talk at SNCT 2015 about my experience in the NASA Robotic Mining Competition (RMC) while studying at University of Alabama. The audience consisted of the general public as well as students from several universities in São Luís, MA. As far as my available records show, this appears to be the earliest public talk I’ve given.