João Pedro Oliveira Santos Paulo was born on the 16th of March, 1994 in Viseu, Portugal. He is currently a M.Sc. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Coimbra.

On October 2016, he joined the AP4ISR team of the Institute of Systems and Robotics (ISR) to develop his M.Sc. dissertation with the theme “RobotShepherding – Teleoperation of a robots fleet through a Smartphone”, under the supervision of Prof. Rui P. Rocha.