People
Academic and professional staff, postdoc researchers, PhD students and alumni

Academic and Professional Staff
Sethu Vijayakumar
Professor of Robotics; Programme Director, The Alan Turing Institute

Contact details
- Work: +44 (0)131 651 3444
- Email: sethu.vijayakumar@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Personal Page
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Address
- Street
Research Interests:
Humanoid Robotics, Robot Learning, High-Dimensional Motion Planning, Optimal Control, Human Sensorimotor Adaptation, Prosthetics and Exoskeletons
Steve Tonneau
Lecturer (Assistant Professor)

Contact details
- Work: +44 131 651 5661
- Email: stonneau@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Personal Page
- Google Scholar
Address
- Street
Research Interests:
Humanoid Robotics, Multi-contact Motion Planning, Convex optimisation, Combinatorial problems
Serena Lambley
Projects Manager

Contact details
- Work: +44 131 650 8281
- Email: slambley@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Personal Page
Postdoctoral Researchers
João Moura
Postdoctoral Researcher

Contact details
- Email: jpousad@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Personal Page
- Google Scholar
Address
- Street
Research Interests:
Learning constrained motions and manipulation with contacts
Saeid Samadi
Postdoctoral Researcher

Contact details
- Email: ssamadi@ed.ac.uk
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Address
- Street
Research Interests:
Humanoids and Animanoids, whole-body balance control, motion planning, optimal control
Wenqian Du
Postdoctoral Researcher

Contact details
- Email: wdu2@ed.ac.uk
- Google Scholar
Address
- Street
Research Interests:
Whole-body motion generation, humanoid and quadruped robots, manipulation, optimization-based torque control, balance and locomotion
Keyhan Babarahmati
Postdoctoral Researcher

Contact details
- Email: kkouhkil@ed.ac.uk
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Address
- Street
Research Interests:
Safe and Compliant Human-Robot Interaction/Cooperation/Collaboration, Dynamics and Model-based Control, Reinforcement Learning in Robot Control and Optimal Control
Russell Buchanan (due to start 2023)
Postdoctoral Researcher

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Address
- Street
Research Interests:
Legged robots, state estimation, mapping
Namiko Saito (due to start April 2023)
Postdoctoral Researcher

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Address
- Street
Research Interests:
Multimodal learning, Sensorimotor control and Manipulation
PhD Students
Jiayi Wang
PhD Student

Contact details
- Email: Jiayi.Wang@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Personal Page
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Address
- Street
Research Interests:
Motion Planning for Legged Robots
Traiko Dinev
PhD Student

Contact details
- Email: Traiko.Dinev@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Personal Page
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Address
- Street
Research Interests:
Computational co-design, Dynamic locomotion, Statistical Machine Learning
Andreas Christou
PhD Student

Contact details
- Email: andreas.christou@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Personal Page
Address
- Street
Research interests:
Rehabilitation robotics, Human sensorimotor control, Neuroprosthetics, Exoskeletons, Functional Electrical Stimulation
Ran Long
PhD Student

Contact details
- Email: Ran.Long@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Personal Page
Address
- Street
Research Interests:
Visual odometry, localisation in dynamic environments, robot proprioception
Ruaridh Mon-Williams
PhD Student

Contact details
- Email: ruaridh.mw@ed.ac.uk
- Web: LinkedIn
Address
- Street
Research Interests:
Game theory, control theory, robotics, machine learning, human-robot interaction and cognitive science
Marina Aoyama
PhD Student

Contact details
- Email: m.aoyama@sms.ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
Research Interests:
Learning from Demonstration, Machine Teaching, Dynamic motor control, Human-robot collaboration
Visitors & Interns
Giulia De Togni
Visiting Researcher

Contact details
- Email: giulia.de.togni@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Personal Page
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Address
- Street
Research Interests:
Disaster Risk Reduction, Risk Communication, Governance, AI and Robotics in Healthcare, Socially Assistive Robotics, Affective Computing, Politics of Innovation, Technoscientific Imaginaries, Anthropology, Ethnography, Japan
Adrian Röfer
ELLIS Joint PhD Student

Address
- Street
Research Interests:
Mobile Manipulation, Imitation Learning, Contact-Rich Manipulation, and Visuomotor Control
Aidan Roche
Clinical Lecturer

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Address
- Street
Research Interests:
Human motor control, Bionic interfaces, Upper limb prosthetics, Peripheral nerve surgery
Juan del Aguila Ferrandis
BSc Honours Project Student

Contact details
Address
- Street
Research Interests:
Machine learning and dexterous manipulation
Sandor Felber
Robotics R&D Engineering Placement Student

Contact details
- Email: S.Felber@sms.ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
Research Interests:
Mobile Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, Robotic Teleoperation, Motion Control, Object Manipulation
Alumni - PhD Graduates & Postdocs (and next destination)
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