Manuel Serra Nunes is a Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Técnico Lisboa, Portugal, working in the Computer and Robot Vision Laboratory. His research interests include developmental robotics and reinforcement learning, with a particular focus on representation learning, intrinsic motivation, and learning from imitation. During his Ph.D., he has also been part of the EU FET project RePAIR, which aims to reconstruct archaeological artifacts from Pompeii using robotics and artificial intelligence.
Before starting his Ph.D., Manuel obtained his M.Sc. in ECE from Técnico Lisboa, where he conducted research on the development and benchmarking of action-conditioned video prediction models. Between his two study cycles, he worked as an embedded software developer in the automotive industry.
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