Pedro Silva

I am a Software Engineer enjoying the perks and challenges of London, England.

I am passionate about technology and automation. There is something about picking up a problem and automating its resolution bit by bit, that just makes me tick.

My main interests besides that are science, photography, psychology and learning. I also enjoy some physical activity and try to eat healthy(ish) most of the time.

Contacts

My CV is available here. There you can find my contacts and professional experience.

References

I've had the chance to spend about 3 years as a researcher on a robotics group during and after my MSc. During that period I've published a few papers of which the most relevant ones are the following:

• Pedro Silva, Vitor Matos, and Cristina P Santos. Adaptive quadruped locomotion: learning to detect and avoid an obstacle. In International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, pages 361--370. Springer, 2012.
• Pedro Silva, Cristina P Santos, and Daniel Polani. Optimization of stable quadruped locomotion using mutual information. In 11TH International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics 2013: ICNAAM 2013, volume 1558, pages 1021--1024. AIP Publishing, 2013.
• Pedro Silva, Cristina P Santos, Vítor Matos, and Lino Costa. Automatic generation of biped locomotion controllers using genetic programming. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 62(10):1531--1548, 2014.
• Pedro Silva, Vitor Matos, and Cristina P Santos. Visually guided gait modifications for stepping over an obstacle: a bio-inspired approach. Biological cybernetics, 108(1):103--119, 2014.
• César Ferreira, Pedro Silva, João André, Cristina P Santos, and Lino Costa. Genetic programming applied to biped locomotion control with sensory information. In Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO), 2014 11th International Conference on, volume 1, pages 53--62. IEEE, 2014.