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Education

• B.S. in Mechatronics, Universidade de Sao Paulo, 2018
• M.S. in Automation and Control, Politecnico di Milano, 2017
• Ph.D in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2025 (expected)

Work experience

• August 2019-August 2021 and January 2022 - Present: Research Assistant
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
  • Duties included: Studying optimal path planning for disinfection robots; developing a bimanual teleoperated robot and its user-side and robot-side infrastructure; Incorporating metric-semantic reconstruction into disinfection planning and currently investigating confidence estimates in real-time metric semacvntic reconstruction and their impact on the downstream task of object retrieval.
  • Supervisor: Professor Kris Hauser
• Fall 2021: Teaching Assistant
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA
  • Duties included: Creating programming assignments and their autograders, grading quizzes and tests and providing weekly TA hours.
  • Supervisor: Professor Margaret M. Fleck
• August 2018 - December 2018: Teaching Assistant
  • Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Duties included: Formulating and grading programming assignments in machine learning, providing weekly TA hours and transitioning the course to using python as its instruction language.
  • Supervisor: Professor Fabio Cozman
• July 2018 - April 2019: Data Science Intern
  • Epistemic, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Duties included: Formulating the data pipeline for predicting epileptic seizures from single-lead electroencephalogram (EEG) readings. Feature selection, time series analysis.
• August 2017 - April 2018: Data Science Intern
  • Big Data Brazil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Duties included: Writing webcrawlers, browser automation, creating predictive models for both revenue and automated auditing for a large hospital system.

Skills

• Motion Planning
• Mapping
• Python
• Machine Learning
• Computer Vision
• Unity and C# (beginner)
• Solidworks (intermediary)
• Scientific writing

Publications

A point and command interface for grasping unknown objects with robotic manipulators

Correia Marques, Joao Marcos. (2017). "A point and command interface for grasping unknown objects with robotic manipulators." Politecnico di Milano.

Heuristic active learning for the prediction of epileptic seizures using single EEG channel

Joao, M. C. Marques, et al. "Heuristic active learning for the prediction of epileptic seizures using single EEG channel." 2018 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM). IEEE, 2018.

Automatic summarization of technical documents in the oil and gas industry

Correia Marques, Joao Marcos, Cozman, Fabio G., Ferreira Dos Santos, Ismael H.. (2019). "Automatic summarization of technical documents in the oil and gas industry." 8th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS).

Optimized Coverage Planning for UV Surface Disinfection

Marques, Joao Marcos Correia, et al. "Optimized coverage planning for UV surface disinfection." 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). IEEE, 2021.

Commodity Telepresence with the AvaTRINA Nursebot in the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Semifinals

Marques, Joao MC, et al. "Commodity Telepresence with the AvaTRINA Nursebot in the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Semifinals." RSS 2022 Workshop on” Towards Robot Avatars: Perspectives on the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition. 2022.

Real-time Semantic 3D Reconstruction for High-Touch Surface Recognition for Robotic Disinfection

Qiu, Ri-Zhao, Sun Yixiao, Correia Marques, Joao Marcos, Hauser, Kris. (2022). "Real-time Semantic 3D Reconstruction for High-Touch Surface Recognition for Robotic Disinfection" IROS 2022.

Pan-Tilt-Roll Televisualization with Adjustable Baseline Stereo

Naughton, P., Nam, J. S., Marques, J. M. C., Peng, J.C., Zhu, Y., Kong, Q., Hauser, K. (2023). "Pan-Tilt-Roll Televisualization with Adjustable Baseline Stereo". In 2nd Workshop Toward Robot Avatars, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ICRA

Commodity Telepresence with Team AVATRINA’s Nursebot in the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Finals

Marques, J.M.C., Peng, J.C., Naughton, P., Zhu, Y., Nam, J. S., Hauser, K. (2023) "Commodity Telepresence with Team AVATRINA’s Nursebot in the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Finals". In 2nd Workshop Toward Robot Avatars, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ICRA

Immersive Commodity Telepresence with the AVATRINA Robot Avatar

Marques, J.M.C.*, Naughton, P.*, Peng, J.-C.*, Zhu, Y.*, Nam, J. S., Kong, Q., Zhang, X., Penmetcha, A., Ji, R., Fu, N., Ravibaskar, V., Yan, R., Malhotra, N., and Hauser, K., (2024). "Immersive Commodity Telepresence with the TRINA Robot Avatar ". International Journal of Social Robotics

On the Overconfidence Problem in Semantic 3D Mapping

Marques, J.M.C., Zhai, A., Wang, S. and Hauser, K., (2024). On the Overconfidence Problem in Semantic 3D Mapping”, 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Service and leadership

• Advised and managed over 6 undergraduate summer research interns over the past three years on the TRINA Project
• Reviewer for ICRA (2021,2022,2023), IROS (2022, 2023), RA-L (2023), International Journal of Social Robotics (2023,2024)
• Co-chair of the Robotics Session of the 17th Coordinated Sciences Laboratory Conference (CSLSC)