Mariana Fonseca
Education
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Ph.D. student with focus on human-robot interaction.
2017 - ...
Ph.D. Student
2015 - 2017
Master Student
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Master student in Electrical Engineering with emphases in Control, Automation and Robotics (CAR).
The focus of the master's thesis was on humanoids, modeling, kinematic control and hierarchical control.
2009 - 2013
BS Student
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
BS student in Control and Automation Engineering. The final course project was focused on computer vision.
2012 - 2012
BS Student
Universidade do Porto (UP)
Exchanging program in Electrotechnical and Computer Engineering.
Academic Experiences
2013 - 2013
Scientific researcher
Laboratório de Metrologia e Instrumentação Computacional (LAMIC)
Laboratory of Metrology and Computational Instrumentation
Development of computer vision software for mercury thermometer reading. The project was funded by Furnas Centrais Elétricas and consisted of developing a software using the C and C++ languages and the OpenCV computer vision library in order to read the value measured by an analog mercury thermometer, and then store it. The stored values will be used later for instrument calibration.
2011 - 2011
Monitor of Industrial Computing
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
The role of the monitors is to spend 12 hours a week in the Industrial Informatics laboratory, assisting students in any doubts related to the activities that should be developed during the course, as well as keeping the laboratory organized and correcting possible defects. The activities carried out include programming of PLCs in ladder, structured text, functional block diagram and SFC; supervisory system using the InTouch software, in addition to programs in Isagraf.
2010 - 2011
Scientific researcher
Centro de Desenvolvimento da Tecnologia Nuclear (CDTN)
Nuclear Technology Development Center
Collaborator in the projects entitled "Development of optical methods to evaluate mammography images" and "Study and development of optical and thermal methods for the evaluation of alumina dosimeters". These projects required studies, tests and research in the area of dosimetry, thermoluminescence readers, photomultipliers and mammography, as well as the preparation of a prototype part of a reader by optical stimulation.
2019 - 2020
Assistant engineer
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Scientific Research National Center
Development of controllers using dual quaternion algebra, aiming for safe human-robot interaction. The project is part of my Ph.D. and involves the development of stable control laws using dual quaternion algebra, implementation in C++, and further experiments in a dual-arm mobile base called Bazar, available at LIRMM.
2009 - 2011
Trainee, Marketing Advisor, Senior Advisor and Public Relations Team Coordinator
Consultoria e Projetos Elétricos Júnior (CPE Jr.)
Consulting and Electrical Projects Jr.
The work in the CPEJr. required customer meetings, engineering project planning, internal marketing activities, event development, courses and technical visits to senior companies.
Job Experiences
2013 - 2017
Software Engineer II, Software Engineer I and Intern.
Jasper Design Automation/Cadence Design Systems Inc.
Research and Development (R & D) engineer at Jasper Design Automation in Brazil. The work involved software development for formal verification using the C++, TCL, Java, Bash and Python languages, and designing tests in Verilog and VHDL hardware description languages.
Knowledge in Linux, regression and formal verification techniques, regular expressions, tools such as Jira, Mercurial and Doxygen was also required.
In June of 2014, Jasper Design Automation was acquired and is now a subsidiary of Cadence Design Systems Inc.
Languages
Portuguese
Fluent.
Native speaker.
English
Advanced level.
First Certificate in English (FCE).
French
Intermediate level.
Spanish
Basic level.
Courses
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French courses at CACS, with duration of 60 hours each (Débutant, Élémentaire I, Élémentaire II, Intermédiaire I and Intermédiaire II) from 2015 to 2017.
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Intensive English course during two weeks (42 hours) at Kaplan International College, Cambridge, UK, in 2012.
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English courses at Cultura Inglesa, from 2010 to 2012.
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Italian course at CENEX in 2011.
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Complementary course in Oratory at Integrated Nucleus of Psycho-Neurolinguistics, in 2010.