Joao Rocha

I am a Master’s student in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Unicamp, advised by Marconi Kolm Madrid. I am also a Research Assistant at the University of Manitoba under the supervision of Mirella Veras. I earned my Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering at the Federal University of Uberlandia. Currently, I am a Machine Learning Engineer at Bem Agro.

Research interests

reinforcement learning
imitation learning
humanoid and legged robots
machine learning and computer vision

My research focuses on learning-based methods for humanoid and legged robots, with an emphasis on reinforcement and imitation learning for robust perception and control. I am interested in systems that can act safely and reliably in the real world.

If you have any questions about my research or want to collaborate, feel free to contact me anytime.

news

Jan 15, 2016	A simple inline announcement with Markdown emoji!
Nov 07, 2015	A long announcement with details
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latest posts

Mar 26, 2025	a post with plotly.js
Dec 04, 2024	a post with image galleries
May 14, 2024	Google Gemini updates: Flash 1.5, Gemma 2 and Project Astra

selected publications

PhysRev

Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?

A. Einstein^*†, B. Podolsky^*, and N. Rosen^*

Phys. Rev., New Jersey. More Information can be found here , May 1935

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In a complete theory there is an element corresponding to each element of reality. A sufficient condition for the reality of a physical quantity is the possibility of predicting it with certainty, without disturbing the system. In quantum mechanics in the case of two physical quantities described by non-commuting operators, the knowledge of one precludes the knowledge of the other. Then either (1) the description of reality given by the wave function in quantum mechanics is not complete or (2) these two quantities cannot have simultaneous reality. Consideration of the problem of making predictions concerning a system on the basis of measurements made on another system that had previously interacted with it leads to the result that if (1) is false then (2) is also false. One is thus led to conclude that the description of reality as given by a wave function is not complete.