Getting to Know Alexandre Pacheco – From NASA to Modulr 🟨 Alexandre Pacheco is a robotics researcher with both academic depth and practical experience. His main focus has been swarm robotics and how blockchain technology can be used to coordinate groups of machines. He first got hands-on exposure at NASA’s Intelligent Systems Division, where he worked as an intern on robotics projects. That experience shaped much of his later academic path. Over time, his work developed into a PhD research centered on collective behavior and decentralized control. Part of this research explored how blockchain could support the coordination of robotic swarms. To date, Alexandre has written or co-authored 12 peer-reviewed papers on the subject, putting him among the more active voices at the intersection of robotics and blockchain. He has also studied and carried out research with several well-known institutions, such as the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the University of Konstanz. What makes his work stand out is the way he combines theoretical research with real experiments on physical robots, instead of keeping things purely in the lab or on paper. Outside of his academic work, Alexandre has shared a lot of his projects publicly through code and publications: GitHub: github.com/teksander Publications: orcid.org/0000-0001-5933… Alexandre is part of Modulr’s Core Development Team and his expertise in swarm intelligence and blockchain will be central to building Modulr’s decentralized operating system for robotics.
@Modulr_Robotics Having him with us in Zurich was truly inspiring😍