da Silva L M

Lucileide M. D. Da Silva was born in Natal, Brazil. She received the B.S. degree in electronics engineering from the École Nationale Supérieure d’électronique, d’Electrotechnique, d’-Informatique et d’Hydraulique et des Télécommunications (ENSEEIHT), Toulouse, France, in 2011, and the B.S. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal, in 2012 and 2016, respectively, where she is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering. She is an Assistant Professor at the Informatics Department, Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN), Santa Cruz, Brazil. She is currently a Visiting Researcher at the Centre Telecommunication Research, King’s College London (KLC), London, U.K. She is part of the IFRN’s Robotics Group, training teenagers in different competitions and developing assistive technology to children with special needs. She is also part of the Research Group on Embedded Systems and Reconfigurable Hardware, Department of Computer Engineering and Automation, UFRN, where the main research topics are the acceleration of artificial intelligence algorithms through reconfigurable computing on FPGA. Her research interests include artificial intelligence, embedded systems, reconfigurable hardware, tactile internet, and educational robotics for teenagers and children with special needs.