Mateus Valverde Gasparino is a Ph.D. student at the department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. His research is focused on the perception, mapping, control, and learning for robotics navigation in unstructured outdoor environments. Mateus earned a Bachelor's degree in mechatronics engineering from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil in 2016. During his undergraduate studies, he was awarded the University of Sao Paulo Engineering Institution award and the Regional Council of Engineering, Architecture, and Agronomy (CREA) award for having the highest GPA in his class. After completing his Bachelor's degree, Mateus continued his studies by pursuing a Master's degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Sao Paulo. He earned his M.Sc. degree in 2019 with research on the topic of robotics autonomous navigation in challenging agricultural environments. In 2020, Mateus began his Ph.D. studies in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is currently a graduate research assistant in the Distributed Autonomous Systems Laboratory (DASLab). Mateus's research interests are focused on developing robotic systems that can navigate through unstructured outdoor environments, with a particular interest in perception, mapping, control, and machine learning. Currently, he is a student member of the IEEE society.