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Principal Investigator
Associate Professor of Robotics
Research in robot learning, dynamic whole-body motion planning, control, legged locomotion and loco-manipulation for quadrupeds and humanoids.
Postdoctoral Researchers
Graduate Students
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MSc Students and Visitors
Visitor from Purdue
EUROP intern
EPSRC intern
Visiting Researchers
Visiting Researcher / alumnus
Supervised PhD work recognised by the Queen Mary UK Best PhD in Robotics Award.
Alumni Students
2021–2024 · Taiwan Scholarship · “Task and Motion Planning for Mobile Manipulation.”
2021–2025 · Co-supervised with Dr Ben Seymour · “Neural reinforcement learning: adaptive behaviour and safe exploration.”
2019–2023 · AIMS CDT · “Generative modelling for robot locomotion and manipulation.”
2019–2023 · “Streamlined Domain Randomization for Sim-to-Real Transfer in Deep-Reinforcement Learning.”
2019–2024 · Amazon Lighthouse Fellowship · “Combining Optimal Control with Learning – A unified Approach for Legged Robotics.”
2019–2022 · DTP · “Category-Level Object Representations for Robotics.”
2018–2022 · AIMS CDT · “From Visuomotor Control to Latent Space Planning for Robot Manipulation.”
2018–2022 · Moog UK Fellowship · “Receding-Horizon Motion Planning of Quadrupedal Robot Locomotion.”
2018–2022 · AIMS CDT · “Whole-Body Motion Planning in Dynamic Environments.”
2018–2022 · AIMS CDT · “Learning System Adaptive Legged Robotic Locomotion Policies.”
Alumnus
Alumnus
Alumni Postdocs
2023–2025 · Lecturer, University of Middlesex
2024–2025 · Senior Robotics Engineer, RACE-UKAEA
2023–2024 · Lecturer, University of Beijing
2020–2023 · Chief Technology Officer, Aboitiz Equity Ventures
2022–2023 · Research Scientist, Sony AI USA
2019–2022 · Research Scientist, The Boston Dynamics AI Institute
2017–2021 · Senior Software Engineer Controls, Agility Robotics
2017–2020 · Lecturer, Kings College London
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