Andry Maykol Pinto

Andry Maykol Pinto is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Robotics and Autonomous Systems at INESC TEC and an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. He earned a Ph.D. (2014) and M.Sc. (2010) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Porto, focusing on Robotics.

Research Interests: His work spans Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, Machine Learning, Underwater Imaging, 3D Reconstruction, and Marine Robotics. He develops advanced perception systems for UAVs and AUVs, focusing on multimodal data fusion, visual transformers, and reinforcement learning to address navigation and reconstruction challenges in offshore and underwater environments.

Supervised Theses (2023):

• Eduardo Jorge Pereira Gonçalves: Deep learning for visual odometry in ASVs
• Daniel Filipe Barros Campos: Multi-domain awareness for offshore wind farm inspection
• João Afonso Borges Carvalho: AI for marine growth classification
• Francisco Soares Pinto da Silva Neves: RL-based UAV inspection of windmills
• João Basto do Rosário: Ego motion analysis from video data
• Gabriel da Silva Martins Loureiro: Edge intelligence for seafloor perception
• João Francisco Sengo Guimarães: Machine vision for deep-space images
• Maria Inês Rodrigues Pereira: Multi-agent RL for maritime perception
• João Rodrigues Mina: Quality assessment for underwater imaging
• Rafael Marques Claro: Robust UAV landing perception

Contact: andry.m.pinto@inesctec.pt | +351228340554