Filipe Veiga

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University.

Prior to joining GMU, I was Postdoctoral Associate at the Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology working with Prof. Edward Adelson in the development and usage of GelSight fingertip sensors for improving the dexterous manipulation skills of robots.

I obtained a PhD in Machine Learning and Robotics from the Technische Universitaet Darmstadt under the supervision of Prof. Jan Peters after I got my Master Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico under the supervision of Prof.Alexandre Bernardino and Prof.José Santos-Victor.

My research interests focus on the exploration of biomimetic control approaches in conjunction with state of the art machine learning in order to learn real time state estimation and control systems. In particular, these topics are explored in he context of robot manipulation and multi-model perception.