Members

Faculty

Prof. Maurice Fallon (IEEE, Senior Member) is a Full 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

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.

Dongjiao He has been a post-doc in DRS since Spring 2026. She did her PhD in the MARS Lab in Hong Kong University working on lidar mapping and estimation theory. During her PhD, she contributed to several popular open source lidar odometry systems including Fast-LIO2, Point-LIO and Fast-LIVO2. She is working on the ScanLite project in collaboration with Prof. Stephen Mellon and Dr. Jack Tu at NDORMS.

PhD Students

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.

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.

Yuhao Zhang starting his PhD in October 2025. His undergrad degree is from Manchester and his MSc from Cambridge. Yuhao is working on visual SLAM and reconstruction. He is heavily involved in running the Hilti x Trimble SLAM Challenge 2026.

Mengyuan Yin started her PhD in October 2025. Her undergrad degree is from Imperial College London and she has carried out research in ETH Zurich and A*STAR in Singapore. Mengyuan is working on object-level mapping and change detection.

Kevin Siqi Tan is started his RAINZ CDT PhD programme in October 2025. He has recently completed his MSc degree in New York University. Kevin is working on panoptic scene understanding. His main supervisor is Daniele De Martini.

MSc Students and Visitors

Xinyuan Zhang is working on building model reconstruction with goemetric foundation models. She is a visiting student from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Timothee Mahamoodally is working on near range collision avoidance using time-of-flight sensors with ORI’s Soft Robotics Lab.

Jin Rhee is working on visual inertial odometry with geometric foundation models (e.g. MapAnything).

Helen Fan is working on multi-camera localisation

Alumni

• Dr. Nived Chebrolu (PostDoc 2025). Next: Faculty, IIT Bombay
• Dr. Miguel Ángel Muñoz-Bañón (PostDoc 2025). Next: Faculty, University of Alicante
• Dr. Matías Mattamala (DPhil 2023 and PostDoc). Next: PostDoc, Edinburgh
• Dr. Jianeng Wang (DPhil 2025).
• Dr. Lintong Zhang (DPhil 2024). 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 and PostDoc). Next: PostDoc, NavLive
• 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

• 2024-25: Jack Botham, Harry Graves
• 2023-24: Haedam Oh
• 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

Alumni – Visitors

• Prof. Ayoung Kim, Minwoo Jung, Hyeonjae Gil and Dongjae Lee all visited us from Seoul National University in 2025 as part of our Korea National Research Foundation project “Harmonic Space” which runs until 2028.
• Dylan Brown (Summer 2025) visited from University of Pretoria and worked on 3D change detection.
• Lucas Lima (Autumn 2024) visited from CSIRO in Australia working on lidar localisation in forests.
• Leonard Freissmuth (Spring 2024) visited from TU Munich to work on tree reconstruction using LiDAR.
• Yibin Wu (Autumn 2025) visited ORI from University of Bonn and working on deep learning for visual inertial odometry.
• Lucas Lima (Autumn 2024) visited from CSIRO in Australia working on lidar localisation in forests.

2024 ICRA in Yokohama, Japan

2023 BBQ in Wytham Woods

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