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Tiago S. Vaquero
Official Bio
Tiago S. Vaquero is a Technical Group Supervisor of the Artificial Intelligence Group, Planning and Execution Section, of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.Tiago holds a B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Tiago previously held a MIT research scientist position and a joint Caltech/MIT research position where he worked on Resilient Spacecraft Systems and Risk Sensitive Planning/Scheduling algorithms with Professor Brian Williams. At MIT, Tiago also worked on Risk Sensitive Planners and Executives for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles and Autonomous Cars. Tiago also held a research position at the University of Toronto where he worked on Multi-Robot Planning and Coordination with Prof. Christopher Beck and Goldie Nejat.
Tiago works on multi-agent coordination methods for multi-rover cave exploration and for surface site characterization.