Ana Luiza Mineiro I am a Mechatronics Engineering undergraduate student and FAPESP Research Fellow at the University of São Paulo (USP), under the supervision of Prof. Marcelo Becker. Currently, I am a Research Intern at the Distributed Autonomous Systems Laboratory (DASLab) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), advised by Prof. Girish Chowdhary. CV  /  Google Scholar  /  LinkedIn

Research

My research focuses on systems that learn to perceive and act from raw sensory data, with applications in robotics. I have worked on end-to-end reinforcement learning policies for navigation and locomotion, exploring how compact representations and multi-task formulations enable robots to adapt to complex environments. I am now increasingly interested in how multimodal learning and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) can enable richer world representations and higher-level task planning for autonomous systems.

Key Areas

• Multimodal learning and VLM-based task planning for autonomous systems
• Reinforcement learning for perception-driven navigation and locomotion

Publications

• CTS-MoE: Implicit Terrain Adaptation via Mixture-of-Experts for Perceptive Locomotion
  Francisco Affonso, Matheus P. Angarola, Ana Luiza Mineiro, Aditya Potnis, Marcelo Becker, Girish Chowdhary
  Under review, 2026
  paper · website
• End-to-End Crop Row Navigation via LiDAR-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning
  Ana Luiza Mineiro*, Francisco Affonso*, Marcelo Becker
  International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), 2025
  paper

Contact

• Email: analuizamineiro [at] usp [dot] br
• Scholar: Google Scholar