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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)

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- 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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- 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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- Work: +44 131 650 8281
- Email: suzanne.perry@ed.ac.uk
Postdoctoral Researchers
João Moura
Postdoctoral Researcher

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- 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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- 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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- 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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Address
- Street
Research Interests:
Legged robots, state estimation, mapping
Namiko Saito
Postdoctoral Researcher

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

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

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- 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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- 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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- 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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Address
- Street
Research Interests:
Human-in-the-loop optimization, Exoskeletons, Optimal control
Juan del Aguila Ferrandis
MRes Student

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Address
- Street
Research Interests:
Machine learning and dexterous manipulation
Visitors & Interns
Atoosa Kasirzadeh
Alan Turing Group Leader

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- 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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- 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
Ran Long
Visiting Researcher

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- Email: Ran.Long@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Personal Page
Address
- Street
Research Interests:
Visual odometry, localisation in dynamic environments, robot proprioception
Alumni - PhD Graduates & Postdocs (and next destination)
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