Joseph Letobar

I am an undergraduate researcher at the Laboratory for Interaction of Machine and Brain (LIMB) at the University of Central Florida, a part-time engineer at Lockheed Martin, and have research experience at the Georgia Tech Research Institute.

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Research

My research interests are broadly in Embodied AI, with a focus on computational perception through computer vision and haptic sensing, and a focus on cognitive robotics. In practice, this means developing robotics and AI architectures inspired by neuroscience and cognitive science.

THOTH system concept diagram
THOTH: Task-Aware Semantic Memory for Aerial Missions
Joseph Letobar, Arianna Lee, Jylen Tate, Neal Cronin, Clint Johnson
MIT Undergraduate Technology Research Conference (URTC), 2026 (under review)
research paper

THOTH (Task-aware, Hierarchical, Open-vocabulary, Traceable Heatmap), a task-aware semantic memory system for long-horizon aerial missions.

Rational Episodic Memory: When Should Wearable AI Remember?
Joseph Letobar
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Wearable AI Workshop, 2026 (accepted)
research paper

Engagement and surprise, respectively inspired by Theory of Mind research and predictive processing, serve as cognitively inspired signals for deciding what wearable AI should remember.

Plug and Play Myoelectric Control
Joseph Letobar, Mohsen Rakhshan

research poster

Evaluating the effects of force control on the intuitiveness of myoelectric prosthetic hand control.

Augmented Reality Bowling
Joseph Letobar
Personal project, 2026
source code

Real-time lane and ball analytics using computer vision.

Miscellanea

Work Experience

Jul 2025 - Present, Orlando, FL — Laboratory for Interaction of Machine and Brain, Undergraduate Researcher
Dec 2025 - Present, Orlando, FL — Lockheed Martin, Quality Engineer (Part time)
May 2026 - Aug 2026, Atlanta, GA — Georgia Tech Research Institute, Research Intern
Apr 2025 - Jul 2025, Orlando, FL — UCF Information Technology, Information Technology Intern

Education

Expected Aug 2028, Orlando, FL — University of Central Florida, B.S. in Computer Science