About me...

Hey I’m Lucas.

I’m a software engineer,

researcher and

product designer.


If you’re here, then let’s chat. Here’s what I’ve been up to:

VLA-RLX
Completing my honours on deep reinforcement learning for robotics at UNSW under Prof. W. Midgley
oNex
Capturing and classifying motion data at an unprecedented scale
Veracity
Designing scalable trust infrastructure at PwC
Capsol
Bringing dusty photos to life with vision language models
Nowhere
Crowdsourcing real-time human location data
Geophytes
Grassroots activism for displaced mining communities

Other stuff:

Bio

I grew up in Brazil, got expelled from every school, moved to Sydney, watched The Social Network, and taught myself to code in PHP. I turned it around, was elected house captain, forced my way into 4-Unit Maths by topping all my classes, then co-founded the school’s first maths club with my friend Stefan to teach accelerated content to the next generation of students.

Studying Eng/CompSci at UNSW (only place that offered it) and now fast-forward to 2025, I’m working on building a consumer AI software company and seeking a path to scaling robotics and fusion.

Publications

  • Barbosa, L., Kirshner, S., Kopel, R., Lim, E.T.K. & Pagram, T., 2025. A New Incentive Model For Content Trust. arXiv:2507.09972 [Link]
  • Barbosa, L., Kirshner, S., Kopel, R., Lim, E.T.K. & Pagram, T., 2025. Toward trustworthy content: the role of challengers, juries and veracity bonds in digital media platforms. Industrial Management & Data Systems [Link]

Course Work

MATH1141 Higher Mathematics 1A

MATH1241 Higher Mathematics 1B

PHYS1131 Higher Physics 1A

COMP1521 Computer Systems Fundamentals

ELEC1111 Electrical Circuit Fundamentals

COMP2121 Microprocessors and Interfacing

ELEC2141 Digital Circuit Design

MATH2089 Numerical Methods & Statistics

COMP2521 Data Structures and Algorithms

ENGG1300 Engineering Mechanics

MATH1081 Discrete Mathematics

MATH2018 Engineering Mathematics 2D

MTRN2500 Computing for Mechatronic Engineers

COMP1531 Software Engineering Fundamentals

ENGG2400 Mechanics of Solids

MMAN3200 Linear Systems and Control

MMAN2300 Engineering Mechanics 2

COMP3331 Computer Networks and Applications

COMP3431 Robotic Software Architecture

MTRN3500 Computing Applications in Mechatronic Systems

MTRN3020 Modelling and Control of Mechatronic Systems

MTRN4110 Robot Design

MTRN4230 Robotics

COMP2511 O-O Design & Programming

MMAN1130 Design and Manufacturing

ECON1101 Microeconomics 1

COMP3411 Artificial Intelligence

COMP3121 Algorithms & Programming Tech

COMP3311 Database Systems

COMP6841 Extended Security Engineering

PHYS1160 Introduction to Astronomy

COMP3231 Advanced Operating Systems

MTRN4010 Advanced Autonomous Systems

COMP3900 Computer Science Project

MMAN4951 Research Thesis A, B and C