Pedro Ildefonso

Integrated into the project "Testing the Kerr hypothesis with gravitational waves and lensing" at the Centro de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Matemática e Aplicações (CIDMA). The goal is to, using numerical simulations, infer about the dynamics of isolated and binaries systems of Boson Stars (BSs) and their gravitational wave signatures.

I was a home tutor for children and teenagers currently in their middle and high school struggling with their mathematics and physics courses.

– Work with ROS, a software development kit for robotic applications; – Develop and work with Markov decision processes and reinforcement learning algorithms; – Work with human pose estimation algorithms, sensing systems and kinesthetic learning; – Use this knowledge to instantiate and develop a two-manipulator Baxter robot to perform human-robot collaborative tasks, such as to assist a human user in sequentially putting on both straps of a backpack.

My main work is to efficiently solve computationally challenging problems in near term quantum computers. Included in this work are projects related to Rydberg atoms in optical lattices and their implementation in the Parity architecture, first developed by his supervisor, Wolfgang Lechner, and his research group.