Nuno Pessanha Santos

Nuno Pessanha Santos holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) faculty of Lisbon University. He also has an integrated M.Sc. degree in Naval Military Sciences in Weapons and Electronics Engineering from the Portuguese Naval Academy, Alfeite, Portugal, and an M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering (specialization in Automation and Industrial Electronics) from the High Institute of Engineering of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal. He has worked for about eighteen years as a Weapons and Electronics Engineer in the Portuguese Navy, performing several functions onboard ships and on land and as a military professor at the Portuguese Naval Academy (Escola Naval). He now works as an assistant professor at the Portuguese Military Academy (Academia Militar) and is an active researcher. His primary research interests focus on computer vision applications, machine learning, motion estimation, and algorithm design applied to advanced robotics.