People
Academic and professional staff, postdoc researchers, PhD students and alumni
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Academic and Professional Staff
Sethu Vijayakumar
Professor of Robotics; Programme Director, The Alan Turing Institute
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Contact details
- Work: +44 (0)131 651 3444
- Email: sethu.vijayakumar@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Personal Page
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Address
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Research Interests:
Humanoid Robotics, Robot Learning, High-Dimensional Motion Planning, Optimal Control, Human Sensorimotor Adaptation, Prosthetics and Exoskeletons
Steve Tonneau
Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
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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
Saeid Samadi
Robotics Laboratory Manager
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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
Suzanne Perry
Projects Manager
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Contact details
- Work: +44 131 650 8281
- Email: suzanne.perry@ed.ac.uk
Postdoctoral Researchers
João Moura
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Contact details
- Email: jpousad@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Personal Page
- Google Scholar
Address
- Street
Research Interests:
Learning constrained motions and manipulation with contacts
Wenqian Du
Postdoctoral Researcher
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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
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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
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Contact details
Address
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Research Interests:
Legged robots, state estimation, mapping
Namiko Saito
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Contact details
Address
- Street
Research Interests:
Multimodal learning, Sensorimotor control and Manipulation
Jiayi Wang
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Contact details
- Email: Jiayi.Wang@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Personal Page
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Address
- Street
Research Interests:
Motion Planning for Legged Robots
PhD & MRes Students
Andreas Christou
PhD Student
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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
Marina Aoyama
PhD Student
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Contact details
- Email: m.aoyama@sms.ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
Research Interests:
Learning from Demonstration, Machine Teaching, Dynamic motor control, Human-robot collaboration
Victor Leve
PhD Student
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Contact details
- Email: s2522875@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
Research Interests:
Humanoid Robots, Machine Learning, Multi-Contact Motion Planning, Locomanipulation
Andreas Sochopoulos
PhD Student
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Contact details
Address
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Research Interests:
Human-in-the-loop optimization, Exoskeletons, Optimal control
Juan del Aguila Ferrandis
MRes Student
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Contact details
Address
- Street
Research Interests:
Machine learning and dexterous manipulation
Elle Miller
PhD Student
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Contact details
- Email: elle.miller@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Personal Page
- Web: LinkedIn
Address
- Street
Research Interests:
Assistive robotics, reinforcement learning, human-robot collaboration, manipulation
Visitors & Interns
Atoosa Kasirzadeh
Alan Turing Group Leader
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Contact details
- Email: atoosa.kasirzadeh@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
Research Interests:
AI safety and ethics, algorithmic transparency and accountability, algorithmic fairness and justice, ethical and social implications of generative AI models and recommender systems
Giulia De Togni
Visiting Researcher
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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
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Address
- Street
Research Interests:
Mobile Manipulation, Imitation Learning, Contact-Rich Manipulation, and Visuomotor Control
Dominique Regli
Visiting Student
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Contact details
- Web: Personal Page
- Web: LinkedIn
Address
- Street
Research Interests:
Human-Robot Teaming and Medical Robotics
Alumni - PhD Graduates & Postdocs (and next destination)
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