Leonardo Santos

PhD Student @ KTHMemento mori

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Lindstedtsvägen 24, 4th floor, 11428

Stockholm, Sweden

leohmcs at gmail dot com

Hello, I’m Leo. I’m a (incoming) PhD student in the Division of Robotics, Perception and Learning at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology :sweden:. I am interested in enabling robots to have meaningful, long-term interactions with humans and ensuring that their behavior aligns with human expectations by leveraging tools from robotics, control theory, and machine learning.

Previously, I graduated from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) :brazil: with a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering. As an undergrad, I had the pleasure to work with Douglas Macharet in the Computer Vision and Robotics Lab (VeRLab). I also had the privilege to be a Robotics Institute Summer Scholar (RISS) in 2023 and 2024 at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) :us:, where I worked with Sebastian Scherer and Andrea Bajcsy, respectively.

google scholar | github | linkedin

news

Jan 31, 2025 :page_with_curl: One paper accepted to 2025 IEEE ICRA: “Updating Robot Safety Representations Online from Natural Language Feedback”.
Aug 26, 2024 :page_with_curl: One paper accepted to 2025 AIAA SciTech Forum: “UniSaT: Unified-Objective Belief Model and Planner to Search for and Track Multiple Objects”.
Jun 03, 2024 :sunny: This Summer I will work on Language-Assisted Safe Navigation with Prof. Andrea Bajcsy at CMU as part of the RISS program.
Aug 31, 2023 :fallen_leaf: This Fall I will study at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden as an exchange student.
Jun 01, 2023 :sunny: This Summer I will work on Informative Path Planning with Brady Moon and Prof. Sebastian Scherer at CMU as part of the RISS program.

selected publications

  1. Updating Robot Safety Representations Online from Natural Language Feedback
    Leonardo Santos*, Zirui Li*, Lasse Peters, and 2 more authors
    2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
  2. UniSaT: Unified-Objective Belief Model and Planner to Search for and Track Multiple Objects
    Leonardo Santos*, Brady Moon*, Sebastian Scherer, and 1 more author
    In AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum, 2025
  3. Collaborative ugv/uav path planning for inventory management in warehouses
    Caio CG Ribeiro, Leonardo Santos, and Douglas G Macharet
    In 2022 Latin American Robotics Symposium (LARS), 2022 Brazilian Symposium on Robotics (SBR), and 2022 Workshop on Robotics in Education (WRE), 2022