Didier Rodrigues Lopes

Didier Rodrigues Lopes is the founder and CEO of OpenBB, a company that specializes in sensor fusion technology. Prior to founding OpenBB, Lopes worked as a sensor fusion engineer at NURVV from March 2020 to October 2021. While at NURVV, Lopes made significant contributions to improving the time-to-first-fix of the GNSS receiver, re-designing the concept of altitude estimation using Kalman Filter, and adding a GPS filtering algorithm for outliers, which increased the accuracy of the product. In addition to their work on the product itself, Lopes also developed a python data analyzer that processes the data from a running session and produces a html report, which allows the development team to assess the state of the product and make sure it is behaving as expected.

Didier Rodrigues Lopes has a MSc. in Control Systems from Imperial College London with a distinction, a MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Delft University of Technology with a focus on Control Systems, and a BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from NOVA School of Science and Technology with a 17.4/20 (Top 1/96). Didier also has high school certification in Science and Technology from Colégio de São Miguel. In addition, they have various Coursera certifications in Kinematics, Motion Planning, Self-Driving Cars, Visual Perception, State Estimation, Localization, and Machine Learning. Finally, they have a Board of European Students of Technology certification in 2nd place - European Best Engineering Competition Nacional - Case Study.

Mark Rosenblum - Head of Partnerships, Betty Kayton - CFO, and James Maslek - Founder & COO report to Didier Rodrigues Lopes.