Vitor Gaboardi dos Santos

Vitor dos Santos is a PhD student in the School of Computing in Dublin City University (DCU) since October 2022. He is part of the fourth cohort being funded by the Science Foundation Ireland’s Centre for Research Training in Artificial Intelligence. Supervised by Dr. Boualem Benatallah, he is specialising in Deep Learning, and he is aiming to work on the combination of vision and language models for process discovery from unstructured process artifacts.

Vitor holds a MSc in Mechatronics Engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) – Brazil. In this research, he developed a computer vision system to perform local map computation and give autonomous features for a lower limb exoskeleton using a RGB-D sensor.

He holds two Bachelors degree from UFRN with first-class honours. The first one is in Electrical Engineering, with partial fulfilment in the University of Kansas – USA, and the second one is in Information Technology. In his undergraduate studies, he participated on many research projects related to robotics, image processing, computer vision and deep learning. Some of the projects includes developing an automated system to separate objects using image processing and a robotic arm, developed at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) – USA; and performing automatic license plate recognition using convolutional neural networks, developed at UFRN. Many papers were published at conferences during his research period.

Before starting his PhD, he was a professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN), teaching classes on Electronics and Programming, advising students on internships and projects, and participating on projects related to object detection. Apart from academics, he likes to play football, go to the beach, walk in parks and explore nature.

Supervisors: Professor Boualem Bentatallah