Prof. Felipe Oliveira Silva

Felipe O. Silva was born in Jaboticabal, Brazil, on June 8, 1990, He received the B.S. Degree in Automatic Control Engineering (with honors) from the Federal University of Itajubá (UNIFEI), in Itajubá, Brazil (2012); the M.S. degree in Systems Engineering (field of Electronics, Signal and Microsystems) from the National Institute of Applied Sciences, Center Val de Loire (INSA CVL), in Blois, France (2013); and the Ph.D. Degree in Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering (field of Aerospace Systems and Mechatronics) from the Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA), in São José dos Campos, Brazil (2016).In 2012, he was an Intern with the Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France, in Villarceaux, France. From 2013 to 2014, he was an Assistant Researcher with the Institute of Aeronautics and Space (IAE), in São José dos Campos, Brazil. Since 2014, he has been a Professor (currently ranked Associate) with the Federal University of Lavras (UFLA), in Lavras, Brazil, where he teaches courses in Automatic Control Engineering (Undergraduate), and Systems Engineering and Automation (Graduate). Since 2017, he has been an Associate with the technology-based microenterprise Inovação em Mecanização Agrícola Ceifa Ltda. (CEIFA), in Lavras, Brazil. In 2018, he was a Visiting Professor with the Central School of Nantes (ECN), in Nantes, France, in the scope of the ERASMUS Joint Master Program on Advanced Robotics (EMARO+). From 2018 to 2019, he was a Visiting Professor with the University of California Riverside (UCR), in Riverside, USA. Since 2020, he has been a productivity fellow of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), in the Technological Development and Innovative Extension (DT) modality. Since 2025, he has been the coordinator of the Graduate Program in Systems Engineering and Automation (PPGESISA) at UFLA. His research area includes State Estimation, Stochastic Filtering, Sensor Fusion, Instrumentation and Robotics. Applications include: Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) Systems, Inertial Navigation Systems (INS), Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) and Precision Agriculture (PA). He is a senior member of the Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), member of the Institute of Navigation (ION), the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), the Brazilian Society of Automatics (SBA), and the Brazilian Society of Computation (SBC). He is a founding member of the Brazilian Robotics Society (SBRobotica).