Curriculum Vitae

Filipe Fernandes Veiga

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Education

 
 
 
 
 

Ph.D. in Machine Learning and Robotics

Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt

2013 – 2018 Darmstadt, Germany
 
 
 
 
 

M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Instituto Superior Técnico

2008 – 2012 Lisbon, Portugal
 
 
 
 
 

B.Sc. in Engineering Sciences

Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Instituto Superior Técnico

2004 – 2008 Lisbon, Portugal

Research Experience

Postdoctoral Associate

Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2019 – 2020

Responsibilities:

  • Contributing for the design of high resolution vision based tactile sensors.

Graduate Research Assistant

Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt 2013 – 2018

Responsibilities:

  • Developing biomimetic control and machine learning approaches that take advantage of tactile information in order to improve the dexterous manipulation capabilities of robots.
  • Research and Reporting duties for the TACMAN Project - Seventh Framework Programme (FP7-ICT-2013-10)

Undergraduate Research Assistant

VISLAB - Computer Vision Lab, Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica, Instituto Superior Técnico 2010 – 2013

Responsibilities:

  • Working on robot grasp optimization with reinforcement learning.
  • Research duties for the HANDLE Project - Seventh Framework Programme (FP7-ICT-2007-3)

Summer Schools Attended

Human Sensing and Applications to Robotics and Haptic Displays Summer School

Université Lille, Lille, France 2015

Machine Learning Summer School

Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan 2015

Workshop Organization

Visuotactile Sensors for Robust Manipulation: From Perception to Control

Naveen Kuppuswamy, Filipe Veiga, Wenzhen Yuan, Alex Alspach, Avinash Uttamchandani, Robotics: Science and Systems, Corvallis, Oregon, USA 2020

RoboTac: New Progress in Tactile Perception and Learning in Robotics

Mohsen Kaboli, Jeannette Bohg, Qiang Li, Filipe Veiga, Harry Zhe Su, Gordon Cheng, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Madrid, Spain 2018

Multi-Modal Perception and Control

Filipe Veiga, Roberto Calandra, Aude Billard, Jan Peters, Robotics: Science and Systems, Pittsburgh, USA 2018

Tactile Sensing for Manipulation: New Progress and Challenges

Qiang Li, Andrea Cherubini, Lorenzo Natale, Van Anh Ho, Harry Zhe Su, Filipe Veiga, IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Cancun, Mexico 2016

Skills

python

Python

c-plus-plus

C++

c-program

C

matlab

Matlab

ros

ROS

latex

LaTeX

windows

Windows

linux

Linux

macos

Mac OS

Languages

portugal

Portuguese

Fluent

english

English

Fluent

spain

Spanish

Basic

france

French

Basic

germany

German

Basic

Teaching

Teaching Assistant - Statistical Machine Learning

Technische Universitaet Darmstadt 2016

Teaching Assistant - Robot Learning

Technische Universitaet Darmstadt 2015 – 2016

Student Supervision

B.Sc Thesis: Guided Policy Search for In-Hand Manipulation

Tim Schneider, Filipe Veiga, Hany Abdulsamad, Jan Peters, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany 2018

Student Project: Deep Reinforcement Learning for playing Starcraft II

Daniel Palenicek, Marcel Hussing, Simon Meister, Filipe Veiga, Jan Peters, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany 2018

Student Project: Contact Location Forward Modeling of BioTac Skin-like Data for Contact Location Control

Thomas Hesse, Dominik Notz, Filipe Veiga, Jan Peters, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany 2018

B.Sc Thesis: Can we predict grasp forces from photos?

Nick Heppert, Filipe Veiga, Michael Goesele, Jan Peters, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany 2017

B.Sc Thesis: Tactile Sensing for Manipulation

Niko Huhnstock, Filipe Veiga, Herke van Hoof, Jan Peters, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany 2014

Reviewing Experience

International Conferences

  • Eurohaptics
  • Conference on Robot Learning
  • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
  • IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
  • IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots

Journals

  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine
  • IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • Robotics and Autonomous Systems