People
Members of IPAB.
Director
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Subramanian Ramamoorthy | Robot Learning for Decision Making under Uncertainty, Dexterous Manipulation and Control, Human-Robot Interaction, Physics-informed Machine Learning, Safe and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence |
Academic Staff
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Stefano V. Albrecht | Robust sequential decision making by autonomous agents in complex dynamic environments. Deep reinforcement learning, multi-agent reinforcement learning, models of other agents (beliefs, goals, plans) in interactive decision making. |
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Hakan Bilen | Computer vision, machine learning, deep learning, weakly supervised learning, multiple task learning, object recognition, action classification |
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Bob Fisher | Model-based vision, 3D/range data interpretation and applications, video sequence analysis |
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Michael Herrmann | Neurorobotics, self-organisation of behaviour, prosthetic control, computational neuroscience, neuroinformatics |
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Timothy Hospedales | Computer vision. Deep learning. Lifelong machine learning. Transfer and multi-task learning. Learning to Learn. Domain adaptation. Language and vision. Reinforcement Learning for control. Active Learning. Weakly supervised learning |
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Craig Innes | Statistical simulation and testing. Temporal logics for Cyber-Physical Systems. Neuro-Symbolic Learning for Robotics. Risk-Driven Design for Black-Box Models. |
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Mohsen Khadem |
Medical Robotics, Image-guided Surgery, Continuum Robots, Dynamic Modeling and Simulation, Applications of Control Theory in Robotics |
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Taku Komura | Computer graphics, robotics and biomechanics: human motion analysis and synthesis, physically-based animation and real-time computer graphics. |
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Changjian Li | Computer Graphics, 3D Vision and Medical Image Processing: 3D Shape Creation and Analysis with applications in Sketch-based Modeling, Shape Reconstruction and Analysis from Point Clouds, and Medical Image Processing and Modeling. |
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Zhibin (Alex) Li |
Control of complex behaviors for robots, eg humanoids, to achieve human-comparable ability to move and manipulate through control theories, optimization and machine learning. |
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Michael Mistry |
Dexterous motion, dynamics modelling, and control of physical interaction, for humans and robotic systems.
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Laura Sevilla-Lara |
Computer Vision, Motion Estimation, Temporal Modeling, Object Segmentation, Object Tracking, Deep Learning, Unsupervised Learning |
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Mohan Sridharan | Knowledge representation and reasoning, cognitive systems, and interactive learning in the context of human-robot and human-agent collaboration. |
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Kartic Subr | Graphics, Stochastic sampling, signal processing and image manipulation |
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Steve Tonneau |
Humanoid/legged robotics; computer graphics; Motion planning; Optimal control |
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Amir Vaxman | Geometry processing, computer graphics, directional field processing, meshing, reconstruction in medical imaging, discrete differential geometry |
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Sethu Vijayakumar | Statistical Machine Learning for Robotics; Planning, Optimisation and Adaptive Control for Anthropomorphic (Humanoid) Platforms; Computational Motor Control; Rehabilitation Robotics |
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Barbara Webb | Perceptual systems for the control of behaviour, robot models of animals, simulation of neural circuits |
Honorary Staff
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Michael Burke | Robot learning and control, specifically in the development of probabilistic machine learning and computer vision tools for robotics applications |
Associate Academic Staff
| Tim Colles | Mobile robot programming languages |
| Alex Lascarides | Computational semantics, particularly discourse, conversation and gestures; learning strategies in complex games; learning to adapt to unforeseen possibilities |
| Oisin Mac Aodha |
Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Computer-Assisted Teaching |
| Siddharth Narayanaswamy | |
| Kia Nazarpour | Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Machine Learning for Health |
| Austin Tate | Planning and activity management, Human-robot collaboration, Emergency response, search and rescue |
| Chris Williams | Machine learning and computer vision |
| David Willshaw | Construction of networks of neurons and the computations performed by them |
Research Staff
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Ondrej Bohdal | Deep learning: multimodal large language models, data efficiency, out-of-distribution generalization, transfer learning, uncertainty calibration, fairness |
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Alejandro Bordallo | Autonomous robotics, Motion Planning & Prediction, Human-Robot Interaction shaping |
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Longfei Chen | Human-computer Interaction, Egocentric Vision, Pattern Recognition, Statistical Learning |
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Kevin Denamgani | |
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Atish Dixit | |
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Wenqian Du | |
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Evripidis Gkanias |
Bio-inspired artificial intelligence,Computational neuroethology, Computational modelling, Learning and memory, Insect-inspired navigation |
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David Hanley | |
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Cora Hummert | |
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Alexandros Keros | |
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Florent Le Moel | |
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Yihe lu | |
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Octave Mariotti | |
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Mohammad Mohades Kasaei | Efficient machine learning for robotics including deep reinforcement learning and computer vision. |
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Joao Pousa de Moura | Contact-rich and non-prehensile manipulation, trajectory optimisation, model predictive control, and imitation learning. |
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Namiko Saito | Multimodal learning, Sensorimotor learning, Representation learning, Manipulation |
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Mohamed Sorour | |
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Balint Thamo | |
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Hefan Wang | |
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Jiayi Wang |
PhD Research Students
Lab Manager
| Saeid Samadi | Lab Manager |
Field Trails Vehicle Engineer
| Jim Duffin |
Research Software Engineer
Administrative Staff
| Ruta Bader | Portfolio Manager | |
| Julie Laidlaw | Finance Administrator | |
| Andrew Macnaughtan | Institute Administrative Assistant | |
| Stephanie Smith | Institute Administrator |
Business Development
| Cristian Novotny | Business Development Executive |
Technical Support
| Dave Hamilton | Superintendent |
| Garry Ellard | Electronic Technician |
| Douglas Howie | Technician |
| Gilbert Inkster | Electronic Technician |
| Tom Whigham | Technician |
Affiliates
| Anthony Ashbrook | 3D vision, statistical modelling of visual data, dynamic models |
| Richard Baldock | |
| Joanna Bryson | Agent architectures and action selection for real and virtual robots |
| Helen Hastie | Head of School of Informatics |
| John Hallam | Biorobotics, especially sensory biorobotic systems; user modelling in computer games; computational neuroscience and machine learning |
| Margarita Chli |
Computer Vision for Robotics |