MSc Theses Currently (Co-)Supervised at IST

Mestrado 2025/2026 (MEEC)

• Climbing Stairs with a Humanoid Robot (Duarte Santos) - w/ Rita Cunha

• Towards More Natural Human-Robot Interaction Using Multimodal LLMs (António Morais) - w/ Bruno Martins

Mestrado 2025/2026 (MEIC)

• Enriquecimento de dados de sensores de percepção para Condução Autónoma (Dinis Matos) - w/ Pedro Monteiro e David Gomes (Critical Techworks)

Mestrado 2024/2025 (MEEC)

• A Data-Fusion Approach to Robust Person Re-identification in Social Robotics (Inês Sousa) - w/ Kevin Alcedo

MSc Theses Proposals at IST

If you want to do an exciting MSc Thesis in Robotics or affine areas, contact me. I have several open topics for theses. Here are asome currently open:

• Vision-Based Grasping of Known Objects by a Mobile Manipulator (for MEEC, MECD and MEAero) - w/ Zita Marinho (DeepMind and IST)

• Vision-Based Grasping of Known Objects by a Humanoid Robot (for MEEC, MECD and MEAero) - w/ Zita Marinho (DeepMind and IST)

• Técnicas de Aprendizagem Automática para Planeamento de Ações de Veículo em Rotas de Curto Alcance (MEEC) - w/ Paulo Pereira (Critical Techworks)