Marcos Ricardo Omena De Albuquerque Maximo (Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree (summa cum laude) in computer engineering and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electronic and computer engineering from the Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA), Brazil, in 2012, 2015, and 2017, respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor with ITA, where he is also a member of the Autonomous Computational Systems Laboratory (LAB-SCA) and leads the robotics competition team ITAndroids. He is especially interested in humanoid robotics. His research interests include mobile robotics, dynamical systems control, and artificial intelligence.