Guilherme Aramizo Ribeiro Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, California, United States

Los Angeles, California, United States

- Designed and 3D-printed an electromechanical module to operate window blinds via Alexa voice commands using an ESP32 microcontroller with Wi-Fi, with a total cost lower than $20- Developed a Monte Carlos Tree Search AI in C# to play a board game, trained YOLOv8 and EfficientNet to detect the physical game boards from pictures with inference time under 0.8 s- Won ML Kaggle award that predicted the results of the NCAA March Madness tournament using a Deep Neural Network on TensorFlow, placed 92nd out of 1023 competitors- Authored and published 10+ 3D printed models and 3 other larger projects

Gardena, California, United States

Visual Detection of Containers for Industrial Automation- Programmed an object detection algorithm in Python with OpenCV for an industrial robot, achieving positional accuracy ±1mm/±0.1° and inference time under 50 ms- Scripted test procedure driving a Universal Robot manipulator and a Keyence sensor on a Linux computerInstrumentation and Automation of Electric Vehicles- Built and controlled a fault-tolerant brake-by-wire system for an electric truck via CAN and Simulink- Led a team of engineers and machinists to instrument an Electric Car in 3 months with a $200k budgetDesign-Build of a Smart Energy Storage System- Designed, drafted, and procured parts for milling, laser-cutting, 3D-printing of a 100 kW safety-critical Energy Storage System resistant to a thermal runaway failure using SolidWorks and Altair Inspire FEA

West Lafayette, Indiana, United States

- Assembled 5+ robotic platform models, wiring and soldering strain gauges bridge, IMU via SPI, rotary encoder, EMG sensors, and motor driver to microcontrollers, and cameras to Single Board Computers- Mentored 4 grad students and trained 60+ undergrad students to use industrial machines like PLC and HMI Visual Perception and Control of a Robotic Foot Prosthesis- Programmed with ROS and C++ a foot prosthesis with an Admittance Controller and a Kalman Filter to replace the motor’s friction and inertia dynamics with humanoid ankle dynamics- Developed algorithms using Time-Of-Flight (TOF) camera to aid robot navigation, detecting walkable terrains by fitting planar patches with point clouds and PCL presenting results in 3+ technical conferences

Houghton, Michigan, United States

- Automated classification of burn scar images of pediatric patients with accuracy on par with human surgeon experts by creating a healthcare image dataset with clinicians at Children’s Hospital of Michigan, DetroitSystem Identification of the Human Ankle Dynamics- Modeled a time-varying mechanical impedance of the ankle characterizing with MATLAB signal processing such as MLE, Least Squares, and power spectral density, resulting in 20+ scientific publications - Created LabVIEW programs for data acquisition and system identification of 50+ human walking testsAerial Defense with Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (UAV)- Retrofitted bird net launchers into UAV-hunter to capture other UAVs, implementing tracking algorithms in C++ using a stereo camera StereoLabs ZED on a NVIDIA Jetson computer at a 50 fps rate- Simulated the control and path planning of UAVs using Gazebo simulator to increase development time

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Racquetball Club

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, And Automation Engineering