Dhiogo Franco
Academic Background
Currently an exchange student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign through the Brazilian program Science Without Borders. Majoring Electrical Engineering at the Universidade Federal de Viçosa (Brazil). During the first year at college I was selected in the Brazilian program Jovens Talentos para Ciência (Young Talents for Science), and through the program I started doing research in UDP communication applied to Robot Soccer. After the end of the first research project, I started researching speech recognition as a member of the research group NERO, at the Universidade Federal de Viçosa.
Research
Past projects
- Neural networks applied to speech recognition
- Multiple robots communication via UDP communication
Current interests
Currently interested in renewable energy and how the use of renewable sources of energy can change the world.