Members
Faculty
Prof. Maurice Fallon (IEEE, Senior Member) is an Associate Professor in Engineering Science and a Royal Society University Research Fellow. He leads the Dynamic Robot Systems Group. His research is focused on probabilistic methods for localization and mapping. He has also made research contributions to state estimation for legged robots and is interested in dynamic motion planning and control. Of particular concern is developing methods which are robust in the most challenging situations by leveraging sensor fusion.
Post Docs
Dr. Nived Chebrolu joined the ORI as a post-doctoral research assistant in 2021. He is working with the Dynamic Robot Systems Group on navigation and mapping tasks for field robots. During his Ph.D. at the University of Bonn, Nived worked on techniques for localization and mapping for robots in agricultural fields.
Dr. Matías Mattamala is a roboticist interested in robot perception and navigation. I’m also a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Dynamic Robot Systems Group (DRS), enabling robots to achieve autonomous surveying and monitoring missions in the wild.
Dr. Miguel Ángel Muñoz-Bañón received his PhD in 2022 from the University of Alicante in the robotics and automation research line. He completed his dissertation as part of the AUROVA research group. In 2021, he visited, as a predoc researcher, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. He received the award of the best dissertation in robotics for 2022 in Spain, granted by the Spanish Automatics Committee (CEA). Miguel Ángel is now researching as a postdoc visitor at the Oxford Robotics Institute at the University of Oxford. His research interests include environment reconstruction by implicit representation models in challenging environments and geo-localization for autonomous robots.
PhD Students
Ethan Yifu Tao joined the ORI in 2020. Yifu’s research is focused on 3D reconstruction and its application in robotics. Specifically, he works on techniques to fuse both vision and lidar to get the best of both sensor modalities, and apply them in robotic navigation and inspection tasks. Before he joined ORI, he was an Engineering Science undergraduate also here in Oxford. His final year thesis, supervised by Prof. Philip Torr, is to build an “AI Tailor” system that predicts people’s body shape and body measurements directly from photos captured from a mobile phone.
Jianeng Wang joined the Oxford Robotics Institute in October 2020 as a DPhil student with St. Edmund Hall. He is a member of the Estimation, Search, and Planning (ESP) research group focusing on state estimation. He holds a BEng in Electronic Engineering from the University of Sheffield.
Lanke Frank Tarimo Fu Frank joined the DRS in 2021. He holds a master’s degree in
Robotics, Systems and Controls from ETH Zurich.
Prior to starting his PhD, he worked on multi-sensor tracking and prediction for autonomous driving at
Oxa.
At DRS, his research tackles multi-sensor correspondence learning, calibration and active perception, using
differentiable optimisation.
In his spare time he enjoys tinkering at the intersection of
cooking and robotics, and amateur photography.
Christina Kassab joined the Oxford Robotics Institute in October 2022 as a DPhil student at St. Edmund Hall. Before joining the programme, she received an MEng degree in Biomedical Engineering from Imperial College London. Christina is passionate about building visual semantic mapping and navigation systems for robots embedded with vision-language models.
Joseph Rowell joined the Institute in 2022 for a DPhil in Engineering Science. He has a BEng (hons) in Biomedical Engineering at King’s College London, and an MSc in Robotics and Computation from UCL. Joseph is working on 3D change detection.
Jiahao Wang is a second year PhD student in ORI. He completed his MSc degree in Engineering Science in Oxford in 2023.
Haedam Oh is a first year project student working on semantic mapping and lidar place recognition. He completed his MSc degree in Engineering Science in Oxford in 2024. This 4YP project was part of our research into forest robotics as part of the DigiForest EU project.
MSc Students and Visitors
Jack Botham is working on visual tree species and trait detection.
Harry Graves is studying visual reconstruction methods - focusing on the Meta Aria glasses.
Lucas Lima is visiting DRS from CSIRO in Brisbane, Australia where he is a PhD student.
Alumni
- Dr. Lintong Zhang (DPhil 2024). Next: NavLive
- Dr. David Wisth (PostDoc 2023). Next: NavLive
- Dr. Rowan Border (PostDoc 2023). Next: Uni. of Cyprus
- Dr. Oliwier Melon (DPhil 2023). Next: Systems Engineer, Moog
- Dr. Yiduo Wang (DPhil 2023). Next: PostDoc, Uni. of Sydney
- Dr. Russell Buchanan (DPhil 2023). Next: PostDoc, Uni. of Edinburgh
- Dr. Marco Camurri (PostDoc, then Senior Researcher 2022). Next: Faculty, Uni. of Bolzano
- Dr. David Wisth (DPhil 2022). Next: PostDoc, DRS
- Dr. Milad Ramezani (PostDoc 2021). Next: Senior Researcher, CSIRO
- Dr. Georgi Tinchev (DPhil 2020). Next: Applied Scientist, Amazon
- Dr. Romeo Orsolino (PostDoc 2020). Next: Engineer, Arrival
- Dr. Christian Rauch (PhD, Edinburgh 2020). Next: PostDoc, Edinburgh
- Dr. Raluca Scona (PhD, Edinburgh 2020). Next: PostDoc, Imperial College London
- Dr. Simona Nobili (PhD, Edinburgh 2019). Next: Holoride
- Dr. Adrian Penate Sanchez (PostDoc 2019). Next: Lecturer, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Alumni – Undergraduate Students
- 2023-24: Haedam Oh. Leonard Freissmuth (visitor from TUM)
- 2022-23: Jiahao Wang, Maria Watt
- 2021-22: James Odwell
- 2020-21: Christos Ioannou, Alex Proudman
- 2019-20: Thomas Scannett
- 2018-19: Dan Mangles
- 2017-18: Marcelo Gennari do Nascimento, Ben Davis
2024 ICRA in Yokohama, Japan
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