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

Jan Quenzel joined the ORI in May 2026. Jan’s research focuses on real-time state-estimation and mapping using multi-modal sensors for robotic applications. Before he joined ORI, he obtained a doctorate (Dr. rer. nat) from the University of Bonn, Germany, supervised by Prof. Sven Behnke. His doctoral thesis was on multi-modal mapping in real-time using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

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 third year PhD student in ORI. He completed his MSc degree in Engineering Science in Oxford in 2023.

Haedam Oh joined the Oxford Robotics Institute in 2024 as a PhD student, focusing on semantic mapping and LiDAR localization. He previously earned his MEng in Engineering Science from Oxford, completing his degree in 2024. This 4YP project was part of our research into forest robotics as part of the DigiForest EU project.

Jin Jin has been a DPhil student at Oxford Robotics Institute since January 2025. He is also a Clarendon Scholar and it working on visual physical learning for robotic planning tasks. During his MSc in ETH Zurich he collaborated with Dr. Cesar Cadena and Dr. Marco Hutter on reinforcement learning for local navigation. I have also worked with Prof. Changhong Fu of Tongji University on visual tracking during his undergraduate studies.

Yuhao Zhang started 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.

Visitors and Undergrad Researchers

Ben Snowdon is working on natural environment mapping.

Vivek Aggala is working on 3D change detection.

Alumni

• Dr. Ethan Yifu Tao (DPhil 2025 and PostDoc 2026). Next: Faculty, Honk Kong Polytechnic University
• 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 - Undergrad Researchers

• Timothee Mahamoodally (2025-26) worked on navigation with time-of-flight sensors.
• Jin Rhee (2025-26) worked on visual inertial odometry with geometric foundation models.
• Helen Fan (2025-26) worked on multi-camera localisation.
• 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

• Francesco Iotte (2026) visited from Uni. of Pisa and worked on legged robot state estimation.
• Xinyuan Zhang (2026) visited from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and worked on building model reconstruction with goemetric foundation models.
• Prof. Ayoung Kim, Minwoo Jung, Hyeonjae Gil and Dongjae Lee visited us from Seoul National University in 2025 and 2026 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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