Gustavo Jose Giardini Lahr

Gustavo Lahr is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Human-Robot Interfaces and Interaction at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy, under the project JL IIT@Leonardo. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the AeroTech laboratory at the University of São Paulo, Brazil (August 2021), in machine learning applied to aircraft manufacturing assembly tasks using robotic manipulators in partnership with EMBRAER. He holds a Master's thesis, and a mechatronic engineering bachelor's from the same university (2017 and 2014, respectively). He completed an academic exchange at Fairfield University, Connecticut, USA, in the Automated Manufacturing Engineering course, where he obtained a certificate of studies in Automated Manufacturing (2013) as a CAPES (Science without Borders) fellowship. He spent six months abroad as visiting Ph.D. student at KTH, Sweden, at the Robotics, Perception, and Learning laboratory (2018). Research interests: industrial robotics, flexible automation, robotic manipulation, human-robot interaction.