Professional CV

Academic record

• 2015 - present: PhD in Swarm Robotics, University of Osnabrueck.

• 2012 - 2015: PhD in Swarm Robotics, University of The West of England (UWE) - Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL). Min. duration: 3 years.

• 2008 - 2012: Master in Cognitive Science - focus in Artificial Intelligence and 'Neuroinformatics and Robotics', University of Osnabrueck. Final Grade: Very Good (Fail, Passing, Satisfactory, Good, Very Good, Excellent). Min. duration: 2 years.

• 2005 - 2006: Computer Science exchange student at University of Passau.

• 2003 - 2007: Bachelor in Computer Science, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). Final Grade: 7.7 (0-10). Min. duration: 4 years.

• 2003: Computer Science's Vestibular (university entrance qualification) of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). 29th Position (entrance competition: 16.63 students per place).

• 2002 - 2007: Bachelor in System Analysis, State University of Bahia (UNEB). Final Grade: 8.2 (0-10). Min. duration: 4.5 years.

• 2002: System Analysis' Vestibular (university entrance qualification) of the State University of Bahia (UNEB). 2nd Position (entrance competition: 51.33 students per place).

• 1995 - 2001: Military School of Salvador (CMS). Final Grade: 9.2 (0-10).

Areas of scientific interest

• Robotics: swarm robotics, evolutionary robotics, modular robotics, self-assembling / self-reconfiguring robotics, soft robotics.

• Artificial Intelligence: swarm intelligence, evolutionary computation, bio-inspired computing.

Theses

• 2012: A Role-Exchangeable Mixed Reality Robotic Soccer Team based on Swarms. University of Osnabrueck. Grade: 1.15 (6.0-1.0).

• 2007: Fuzzy Controllers for the positioning of the Goalkeeper in relation to the Ball in the Robotic 2D Soccer Simulation. State University of Bahia (UNEB). Grade: 10 (0-10). [Get Thesis (PDF)]

• 2007: Fuzzy Controllers for the positioning of the Goalkeeper in relation to the Attacker in the Robotic 2D Soccer Simulation. Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). Grade: 9.5 (0-10). [Get Thesis (PDF)]

Publications

• • Jessica Meyer. ​The Impact of the Robot’s Morphology in the Collective Transport. In: TAROS 2019 - Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems - 20th Annual Conference, London, UK, July 3-5, 2019, Proceedings, Part II, p. 395-408. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11650. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25332-5_34

  • Jessica Meyer and Joachim Hertzberg. Co-Evolution of Morphology and Behavior in Self-Organized Robotic Swarms. A: BSC Severo Ochoa International Doctoral Symposium (5th: 2018: Barcelona). "Book of abstracts". Barcelona: Barcelona Supercomputing Center, 2018, p. 74-75. [Get Extended Abstract (PDF)]

  • Jessica Meyer and Marco Simoes. Controladores Fuzzy para o Posicionamento Sem Bola do Goleiro no Futebol de Robos Simulado 2D. In: 5th WTICG-BASE - 5th Workshop de Trabalhos de Iniciacao Cientifica e Graduacao Bahia, Alagoas e Sergipe, 2008, Vitoria da Conquista. Proceedings of the 8th Escola Regional de Computacao Bahia, Alagoas e Sergipe (ERBASE), 2008. Sociedade Brasileira de Computacao (SBC), Porto Alegre, 2008, vol. 1. [Get Paper (PDF)]

  • Hugo da Luz, Jessica Meyer, Victor Souza, Simon Viegas, Marco Simoes and Helder Aragao. Controladores Fuzzy para Agentes Robos Jogadores de Futebol. In: 4th WTICG-BASE - 4th Workshop de Trabalhos de Iniciacao Cientifica e Graduacao Bahia, Alagoas e Sergipe, 2007, Vitoria da Conquista. Proceedings of the 7th Escola Regional de Computacao Bahia, Alagoas e Sergipe (ERBASE), 2007. Sociedade Brasileira de Computacao (SBC), Porto Alegre, 2007, vol. 1. [Get Paper (PDF)]

  • Hugo da Luz, Jessica Meyer, Jailsa Oliveira, Danilo Cruz, Leonardo Pessoa, Marco Simoes, Helder Aragao and Ricardo Lima. Bahia2D: Descricao do Time. In: CBR - Competicao Brasileira de Robotica, 2007, Florianopolis. Proceedings of the 8th Simposio Brasileiro de Automacao Inteligente (SBAI). Sociedade Brasileira de Automatica (SBA), Florianopolis, 2007, vol. 1. [Get Paper (PDF)]

  • Hugo Silva, Fabio Ferreira, Marco Simoes, Jessica Meyer, Helder Aragao and Ricardo Lima. Bahia-PV: O Time de Futebol de Robos em Ambiente de Realidade Aumentada. In: CBR - Competicao Brasileira de Robotica, 2007, Florianopolis. Proceedings of the 8th Simposio Brasileiro de Automacao Inteligente (SBAI). Sociedade Brasileira de Automatica (SBA), Florianopolis, 2007, vol. 1. [Get Paper (PDF)]

  • Marco Simoes, Helder Aragao, Victor Souza, Simon Viegas, Hugo da Luz and Jessica Meyer. Bahia2D: Team Description. In Proceedings of Robocup 2007, Atlanta. Robocup Federation, Zurich, 2007, vol. 1. [Get Paper (PDF)]

  • Jessica Meyer. LEDs Brancos Sem Fio. WirelessBrasil, 2007. [Get Paper (PDF)] [HTML Version]

Not Published

• Jessica Meyer. Co-Evolution of Morphology and Behavior in Self-Organized Robotic Swarms. Submitted to: GECCO 2019 - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference.

• Hannes Graeuler, Robin Kogelberg, Thomas Lampe, Jessica Meyer, Philipp Niermann, Mareike Paul, Roland Hafner, Sascha Lange and Martin Riedmiller. Evaluation of Machine Learning Methods on a Swinging Humanoid. In: IROS 2009 - IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. [Get Paper (PDF)]

• Hugo Silva, Jessica Meyer, Marco Simoes, Helder Aragao and Ricardo Lima. Bahia2D: Desenvolvimento de Controladores Fuzzy para Agentes Robos Jogadores de Futebol. In: SBIC 2007 - Simposio Brasileiro em Inteligencia Computacional. [Get Paper (PDF)]

• Marco Simoes, Helder Aragao, Victor Souza, Simon Viegas, Hugo da Luz, Jessica Meyer. Using Fuzzy Logic to Build a Heterogeneous Multiagent System for the Robotics Soccer Problem. In: ENIA 2007 - Encontro Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial. [Get Paper (PDF)]

• Marco Simoes, Helder Aragao, Victor Souza, Simon Viegas, Hugo da Luz, Jessica Meyer. Fuzzy Controllers for Improving Soccer Players Kick, Positioning and Passing. In: Robocup Symposium 2007. [Get Paper (PDF)]

Awards etc.

• 2014: 3rd place at the University of the West of England (UWE)'s 3 Minute Thesis presentation: 'Co-Evolution of Morphology and Behavior in Self-Organized Robotic Swarms'. Bristol, England.

• 2011: 1st place (team leader) in the Mixed Reality league at RoboCup German Open 2011. Magdeburg, Germany.

• 2010: 5th place (team leader) in the Mixed Reality league at RoboCup Singapore 2010. Singapore.

• 2010: 3rd place (team leader) in the Mixed Reality league at RoboCup German Open 2010. Hannover, Germany.

• 2009: 2nd place (team leader) in the Mixed Reality league at RoboCup Graz 2009. Graz, Austria.

• 2009: 2nd place (team leader) in the Mixed Reality league at RoboCup German Open 2009. Hannover, Germany.

• 2008: 3rd place (team member) in the soccer competition of the Mixed Reality league at RoboCup Suzhou 2008. Suzhou, China.

• 2008: 2nd place (team leader) in the Mixed Reality league at RoboCup German Open 2008. Hannover, Germany.

• 2007: 1st place (team member) in the Mixed Reality league at RoboCup Brazil Open 2007. Florianópolis, Brazil.

• 2007: 3rd place (team member) in the 2D soccer simulation league at RoboCup Brazil Open 2007. Florianópolis, Brazil.

• 2007: 4th place (team member) in the soccer competition of the Mixed Reality league at RoboCup Atlanta 2007. Atlanta, USA.

• 2007: participation (team member) in the 2D soccer simulation league at RoboCup Atlanta 2007. Atlanta, USA.

• 2001: 1st place at the Mechatronics’ Vestibular (university entrance qualification) of the University of Technology and Science (FTC). Salvador, Brazil.

• 2001: 1st place at the Biology's Vestibular (university entrance qualification) of the Catholic University of Salvador (UCSAL). Salvador, Brazil.

• 2001: 2nd place at the Mathematical Olympiad - Bahia Regional Fase. Salvador, Brazil.

• 2000: 2nd place at the Mathematical Olympiad - Bahia Regional Fase. Salvador, Brazil.

• 1999: 4th place at the Mathematical Olympiad - Bahia Regional Fase. Salvador, Brazil.

• 1999: 2nd place at the Olimpiada de Maio - Regional Rank. Salvador, Brazil.

• 1998: 3rd place at the Mathematical Olympiad - Bahia Regional Fase. Salvador, Brazil.

• 1998: 3rd place at the Olimpiada de Maio - Regional Rank. Salvador, Brazil.

• 1997: 5th place at the Mathematical Olympiad - Bahia Regional Fase. Salvador, Brazil.

Research projects

• 2012 – 2015: Swarm Robotics at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL). Bristol, England.

• 2012 – 2013: SYMBRION project at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL). Bristol, England.

• SS2009 - SS2011: Project and Working Group at the University of Osnabrück on RoboCup Mixed Reality League: Osna-Be!. Knowledge-Based Systems Group. Osnabrück, Germany.

• WS2008/09: Practicum at the University of Osnabrück: Robotics - with KURT2 for the SICK Robot Day. Knowledge-Based Systems Group. Osnabrück, Germany.

• SS2008 – WS2008/09: Master Student Project at the University of Osnabrück: Humanoid Robots. Neuroinformatics Group. Osnabrück, Germany.

• SS2008 – WS2008/09: Project and Working Group at the University of Osnabrück on RoboCup Simulation League: Brainstormers. Neuroinformatics Group. Osnabrück, Germany.

• 2007: Member of the Brazilian Robotic Team (SBR). Salvador, Brazil.

• 2006 – 2008: Scientific Initiation on Intelligent Robotics at the State University of Bahia. Bahia Robotics Team (BRT). Salvador, Brazil.

• 2005: IEEE Technological Olympiads: Robot War. IEEE UFBA. Salvador, Brazil.

Languages

• Portuguese: native.

• English: fluent.

• German: very good.

• Spanish: very good reading and listening.

Computer Skills

• OS: Windows, Linux.

• Programming: C/C++, Pascal, Java, Visual Basic, Lisp, Prolog, NQC, NetLogo, Assembler.

• Simulation: Webots, NERD - Neurodynamics and Evolutionary Robotics Development Kit, RCSSServer - RoboCup Soccer Simulator Server.

• Numerical Analysis Software: Scilab.

• Web: HTML, Wiki, Flash.

• Visualization: OpenGL.

• Other: LaTeX, Xfuzzy.

Other Experiences

• 2018: Presenter of a poster at the 5th BSC Severo Ochoa Doctoral Symposium: “Co-Evolution of Morphology and Behavior in Self-Organized Robotic Swarms”. Barcelona, Spain.

• 2015: Speaker at the Skirting Science - Bringing together science professionals and girls, presenting a workshop themed "Robots vs. Animals: How Nature Inspire Robotics". Weston-super-Mare, England.

• 2015: Presenter of an interactive demo on Swarm Robotics with Thymios at the Festival of Nature. Bristol, England.

• 2015: 3 Minute Thesis presentation: “Letting Robots Build Their Own Bodies And Make Their Own Minds” at the University of the West of England (UWE). Bristol, England. [Watch Video]

• 2014: Speaker at the Robots vs. Animals project, on the topic of Evolvable Swarm Robotics. Bristol, England.

• 2014: Speaker at the Bristol Bright Night: “Evolving both shape and brain of a robot swarm”, part of the European Researchers’ Night initiative. Bristol, England. [Watch Video]

• 2014: Presenter of an interactive demo on Swarm Robotics with E-pucks at the Festival of Nature. Bristol, England.

• 2014: 3 Minute Thesis presentation: “Co-Evolution of Morphology and Behavior in Self-Organized Robotic Swarms” at the University of the West of England (UWE). Bristol, England. [Watch Video]

• 2014: Speaker at the Faculty of Environment and Technology (FET)'s Postgraduate Research Conference: “Co-Evolution of Morphology and Behavior in Self-Organized Robotic Swarms” at the University of the West of England (UWE). Bristol, England.

• 2013: Speaker and presenter of a poster at the 2nd Awareness Summer School (AWASS2013): “Co-Evolution of Morphology and Behavior in Self-Organized Robotic Swarms”. Lucca, Italy.

• 2007: presenter of two posters at the V Competição Brasileira de Robótica (CBR): “Bahia2D: Desenvolvimento de Controladores Fuzzy para Agentes Robôs Jogadores de Futebol” and “Bahia-PV: O Time de Futebol de Robôs em Ambiente de Realidade Aumentada”. Florianópolis, Brazil.

• 2007: presenter of a poster at the 7th Escola Regional de Computação Bahia, Alagoas e Sergipe (ERBASE): “Controladores Fuzzy para Agentes Robôs Jogadores de Futebol”. Vitória da Conquista, Brazil.

• 2008: Speaker at the SENAI CIMATEC on Fuzzy Controllers for a robotic soccer team. Salvador, Brazil.

• 2007: Speaker at the Anchieta Open - a robotics competition for school children at Colégio Anchieta - on Robotics, also presenting an interactive demo on Humanoid Robotics with a Robosapien V2 at the event. Salvador, Brazil.

• 2005: Teacher Assistant - Capacitation Course in the Linux Operational System, realized by IEEE UFBA. 20 hours. Salvador, Brazil.

• 2005: Teacher - Introduction to the C Programming Language, realized by IEEE UFBA. 20 hours. Salvador, Brazil.

• 2004: Marketing Director of the Consult Júnior (Junior Enterprise at the State University of Bahia (UNEB)). Salvador, Brazil.

• 2002 - 2005: Member of the Consult Júnior (Junior Enterprise at the State University of Bahia (UNEB)). Salvador, Brazil.

Memberships

• Mensa International.

Curriculum Vitae

• Download as pdf file here.