Vinicius Vidal

Vinicius Vidal

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  • About me

    Robotics R&D Researcher

  • Education

    • Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

      2019 - 2023
      Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering - Robotics PhD thesis in Robotics and Computer Vision

      Activities and Societies: Grupo de Robótica Inteligente - GRIn Developing a novel approach on environment and equipment 3D reconstruction for industrial applications. An edge-fog architecture is under development, to allow for many robots to work in parallel and offload data to a central processing node. With the results, many applications arise, such as:Digital Twins for remote industrial control;Augmented and Virtual reality applications for staff training and remote inspection.

    • University of Florida

      2014 - 2015
      Bachelor's degree Electrical and Computer engineering 3.77

      Activities and Societies: Roboboat Competition (Virginia Beach, VA), in July 2015. Exchange student - Science without boarders scholarship recipient.

    • Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

      2011 - 2016
      Bachelor's degree Electrical engineering - robotics 3.56

      Activities and Societies: Grupo de Robótica Inteligente (GRIn) Grupo de Computação Gráfica (GCG) Scholarship at GCG, with presentation at the university congress, and Teaching assistant twice. Study abroad at the University of Florida for 1 year.

    • Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

      2017 - 2019
      Master's degree Electrical Engineering - Robotics Master thesis on Robotics and automated inspection

      Activities and Societies: Grupo de Robótica Inteligente - GRIn Development of modern techniques on automated inspection through visual and thermal cameras based on SLAM. Built a dedicated robot to be mounted on a railroad vehicle and inspect the surrounding distribution line for equipment flaws.

    • Western University

      2021 - 2022
      Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering

      Activities and Societies: Inter university exchange doctorate, with scholarship provided by the CAPES foundation. Working at the Electrical and Computer Engineering department laboratory with researches in the areas of machine learning, computer vision, edge-fog computer architecture and autonomous robots.

  • Experience

    • Colégio Apogeu

      Apr 2011 - May 2012
      Monitor

      Monitor for highschool level physics teaching. Monitors group management, tests grading and eventual classes were other tasks.

    • Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

      Mar 2012 - Aug 2012
      Teaching Assistant

      Teaching assistant for undergraduate level Calculus.

    • Group for Computer Graphics - UFJF

      Sept 2012 - Mar 2014
      CNPQ undergraduate researcher

      Programming and simulation of Carbon nanotubes properties using opensource software and C language.

    • Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

      Mar 2014 - Aug 2014
      Teaching Assistant

      Teaching assistant for Electromechanical Conversion (rotative machines) on undergraduate level.

    • Machine Intelligence Laboratory

      May 2015 - Aug 2015
      Motor specialist

      Worked on the control, testing and design of a new motor for the "Propagator" autonomous boat.

    • GRIn - Grupo de Robotica Inteligente

      Jul 2016 - now
      Postdoctoral Researcher

      -> Developing embedded control algorithms, sensor drivers and Lidar-based SLAM for and autonomous ROVER. The ROVER is meant to inspect power substations autonomously. Github link: https://github.com/viniciusvidal2/ROVER-> Managing the entire embedded environment for an autonomous boat, especially using lidar to perform obstacle avoidance. Using underwater sonar to inspect the environment. The boat is meant to inspect dams. Creator of post-processing software that measures volume and other characteristics of underwater data.-> Working on a project that uses 5G networking alongside data engineering to manage the data flow and processing of an entire hydroelectrical generation company. Using AI methods to gain knowledge from several data input types.All projects are in partnership with private companies of the electrical sector. Show less

    • INESC P&D Brasil

      Sept 2017 - Sept 2021
      Graduate Student Researcher

      Project VIRTUAL - ResearcherDeveloping solutions and managing teams in computer vision regarding software and hardware for scanning objects and environments, in order to generate digital twins with real-world aspect for the Energy Industry sector. These should be applied in augmented and Virtual Reality environments for crew training, maintenance and monitoring in Industry 4.0 scenario.

    • RoboticTech

      Aug 2019 - Jul 2022
      Sócio Co-fundador

      Co-founder at Startup RoboticTech, a technology and innovation company, incubated at CRITT - UFJF. We develop services and products involving robotics, artificial intelligence, computer vision and machine learning. Visit our home page and our youtube channel:http://robotictech.livehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UChNvB7UR1-VDh4AjtnIYYhg

    • DtLabs

      Jul 2022 - Jan 2025
      Robotics R&D Researcher

      Developing algorithms and implementing techniques in the robotics field to help solving the current problems in the industry. Applying AI and machine learning. Developing software in the robotics field, using computer vision and 3D processing for SLAM.

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • NVIDIA DLI Certificate – Fundamentals of Deep Learning

      NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute
      Mar 2022
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    • Autonomous Vehicle Fundamentals

      PyImageSearch
      Jul 2021
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    • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

      Amazon Web Services (AWS)
      Jan 2021
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    • Deep Learning and Computer Vision A-Z: OpenCV, SSD & GANs

      Udemy
      Jun 2021
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    • Certificação AWS Solution Architect +3 Cursos Extras

      Udemy
      Dec 2020
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    • Python for Computer Vision with OpenCV and Deep Learning

      Udemy
      Dec 2020
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    • CUDA Programming Masterclass with C++

      Udemy
      Dec 2020
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    • Machine Learning

      Data Science Academy
      Sept 2021
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    • Python Fundamentos para Análise de Dados

      Data Science Academy
      Jun 2021
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    • B2 First - Grade B

      Cambridge Assessment English
      Feb 2012