Rui Silva Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Pittsburgh, Usa; Lisbon, Portugal

PhD student in the CMU Portugal Dual Degree Program in Computer Science, between Carnegie Mellon University and Instituto Superior Técnico.My research focused on extending planning approaches with Markov Decision Processes to account for alternative configurations of the environment. Specifically, the goal is to allow the agent to plan over possible modifications to its environment, in order to maximize its reward function.Evaluated in multiple simulation domains, and in human-robot interaction scenarios. In the latter, we successfully allowed a robot to learn a task, reason about its limitations, and request the assistance of a human user if necessary, effectively trading-off the benefits arising from such assistance with the cost of disturbing the user.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Teaching Assistant of the graduate course 15-887 Planning, Execution and Learning.Topics covered included classical planning, probabilistic path planning, planning under uncertainty, and learning in planning.

Lisbon, Portugal

Teaching Assistant of the graduate course Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.Topics covered included multi-agent planning and planning under uncertainty.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Worked in the Motion Planning Team at Uber Advanced Technologies Center.Developed planning techniques for more assertive autonomous driving at stop intersections.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Lisbon, Portugal

Research developed in the context of my MSc. Thesis.Goal: Development of an approach for a quadcopter to learn how to intercept a moving ping pong ball. • Developed and implemented an approach based on imitation and reinforcement learning.• Implemented C++ modules for real-time detection and position estimation of a ping pong ball, using the Parrot AR Drone quadcopter monocular camera.• Implemented a C++ module for a trajectory generation method based on dynamic movement primitives.• Developed multiple Python modules for the learning, visualization and simulation components of the project.• Developed a simulated environment for a table-tennis task in the Gazebo simulator.

Lisbon, Portugal

Implemented and tested a text document georeferencing algorithm, based on the MinHash and Locality Sensitive Hashing algorithms. Developed a Java library that can be used for other georeferencing purposes, such as image document georeferencing using MPEG-7 descriptors.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Computer Science

PhD student in the CMU Portugal Dual Degree Program in Computer Science, between Carnegie Mellon University and Instituto Superior Técnico.

Master'S Degree, Computer Engineering And Information Systems

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Engineering And Information Systems