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

Street: Research Interests:
Humanoid Robotics, Robot Learning, High-Dimensional Motion Planning, Optimal Control, Human Sensorimotor Adaptation, Prosthetics and Exoskeletons

Steve Tonneau

Lecturer (Assistant Professor)

Street: Research Interests:
Humanoid Robotics, Multi-contact Motion Planning, Convex optimisation, Combinatorial problems

Vladimir Ivan

Senior Researcher

Email: V.Ivan@ed.ac.uk
Web: Personal Page

Street: Research interests:
Motion Representation, Space Robotics, Humanoid robotics, Shared autonomy

Serena Lambley

Projects Coordinator

Jaehyun Shim

Software Engineer

Postdoctoral Researchers

Carlos Mastalli

Postdoctoral Researcher

Email: carlos.mastalli@ed.ac.uk
Web: Personal Page

Street: Research Interests:
Legged robotics, optimal control, numerical optimisation and machine learning

Christian Rauch

Postdoctoral Researcher

Email: Christian.Rauch@ed.ac.uk
Web: Personal Page

Street: Research Interests:
Visual state estimation, perception for manipulation, object tracking, articulated tracking

João Moura

Postdoctoral Researcher

Street: Research Interests:
Learning constrained motions and manipulation with contacts

Theodoros Stouraitis

Postdoctoral Researcher

Email: Theodoros.Stouraitis@ed.ac.uk
Web: Personal Page

Street: Research Interests:
Human-Robot Interaction, Optimal Control and Manipulation

Daniel Gordon

Postdoctoral Researcher

Street: Research Interests:
Exoskeletons and Prosthetics, Human-in-the-loop Optimisation, Gait Analysis, Musculoskeletal Modelling

Chris Mower

Postdoctoral Researcher

Street: Research Interests:
Robotics, Shared Autonomy, and Optimization methods

Zeeshan Babar

Postdoctoral Researcher

Street: Research Interests:
System Identification, Robust and Optimal Control, Multi-objective task planning

PhD Students

Henrique Ferrolho

PhD Student

Email: Henrique.Ferrolho@ed.ac.uk
Web: Personal Page

Street: Research Interests:
Trajectory Optimisation and Robustness to Disturbances

Jiayi Wang

PhD Student

Email: Jiayi.Wang@ed.ac.uk
Web: Personal Page
- LinkedIn
- Twitter
- Facebook
- Github
- Google Scholar

Street: Research Interests:
Motion Planning for Legged Robots

Traiko Dinev

PhD Student

Email: Traiko.Dinev@ed.ac.uk
Web: Personal Page

Street: Research Interests:
Computational co-design, Dynamic locomotion, Statistical Machine Learning

Andreas Christou

PhD Student

Street: Research interests:
Rehabilitation robotics, Human sensorimotor control, Neuroprosthetics, Exoskeletons, Functional Electrical Stimulation

Ran Long

PhD Student

Email: Ran.Long@ed.ac.uk
Web: Personal Page

Street: Research Interests:
Visual odometry, localisation in dynamic environments, robot proprioception

Ruaridh Mon-Williams

PhD Student

Email: ruaridh.mw@ed.ac.uk
Web: LinkedIn

Street: Research Interests:
Game theory, control theory, robotics, machine learning, human-robot interaction and cognitive science

Marina Aoyama

PhD Student

Email: m.aoyama@sms.ed.ac.uk
LinkedIn

Street: Research Interests:
Learning from Demonstration, Machine Teaching, Dynamic motor control, Human-robot collaboration

Visitors & Interns

Adrian Röfer

ELLIS Joint PhD Student

University of Freiburg

Web: Personal Page
Web: Github

Street: Research Interests:
Mobile Manipulation, Imitation Learning, Contact-Rich Manipulation, and Visuomotor Control

Aidan Roche

Clinical Lecturer

Web: Personal Page
Google Scholar

Street: Research Interests:
Human motor control, Bionic interfaces, Upper limb prosthetics, Peripheral nerve surgery

Matt Timmons-Brown

BEng Project Student

Web: Personal Page

Elspeth Macdonald

MEng Project Student

University of Glasgow

Email: elspethmac123@gmail.com
Web: LinkedIn

Street: Research Interests:
Rehabilitation Engineering, Prosthetics, Functional Electrical Stimulation, Biomechanics and Gait Analysis

Andy Smith

MEng Project Student

University of Glasgow

Email: andysmith867@gmail.com
- Twitter
- LinkedIn

Street: Research Interests:
Rehabilitation Engineering, Exoskeletons, Functional Electrical Stimulation, Prosthetics

Alumni - PhD Graduates & Postdocs (and next destination)

PhD Graduates [with thesis links]	Postdocs
Christopher Mower (2015-2021), University of Edinburgh, UK Daniel Gordon (2015-2021), University of Edinburgh, UK Theodoros Stouraitis (2016-2021), University of Edinburgh, UK Joao Moura (2016-2021), University of Edinburgh, UK Wolfgang Merkt (2015-2019), University of Oxford, UK Agamemnon Krasoulis (2013-2017), Newcastle University, UK Yiming Yang (2013-2017), University of Edinburgh, UK Andreea Radulescu (2011-2016), Italian Institute of Technology, Italy Alexander Enoch (2010-2015), Robotical Ltd. (RAEng Fellow) Hsiu-Chin Lin (2010-2015), University of Birmingham, UK Vladimir Ivan (2010-2015), University of Edinburgh, UK Luigi Acerbi (2010-2014), New York University, USA Konrad Rawlik (2008-2013), Roslin Institute, UK Chris Towell (2008-2013) Evelina Overlingaite (2009-2013) Ian Saunders (2007-2011) Hannes Saal (2007-2011), University of Chicago, USA Sebastian Bitzer (2006-2010), Max-Planck Institute, Germany Djordje Mitrovic(2006-2010), Basler Kantonalbank, Switzerland Matthew Howard (2005-2009), University of Edinburgh, UK Adrian Haith (2005-2009), John Hopkins University, USA Narayanan Edakunni (2004-2009), University of Bristol, UK Tim Hospedales (2004-2008), Queen Mary University, London, UK Giorgos Petkos (2004-2008), CERTH-ITI, Greece Graham McNeill (2003-2008), University of Bath, UK	Lei Yan (2019-2021) Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen Songyan Xin (2019-2021) Dyson, UK Carlo Tiseo (2018-2021), University of Edinburgh, UK Sanghyun Kim (2020-2021), Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials, Korea Wouter Wolfslag (2018-2019), Delft University, Netherlands Yiming Yang (2017-2019), Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China Jun Nakanishi (2009-2014), ICS, TU Munich, Germany David Braun (2010-2013), Vanderbildt University, USA Matthew Howard (2009-2012), King's College, London Takeshi Mori (2010-2011) Stefan Klanke (2007-2009), Radboud University Nijemegen, Netherlands Jo-Anne Ting (2009-2009), University of British Columbia, Canada Heiko Hoffmann (2006-2007), USC, Los Angeles, USA Marc Toussaint (2004-2006), TU Berlin, Germany

PhD Graduates [with thesis links]

Postdocs

Christopher Mower (2015-2021), University of Edinburgh, UK
Daniel Gordon (2015-2021), University of Edinburgh, UK
Theodoros Stouraitis (2016-2021), University of Edinburgh, UK
Joao Moura (2016-2021), University of Edinburgh, UK
Wolfgang Merkt (2015-2019), University of Oxford, UK
Agamemnon Krasoulis (2013-2017), Newcastle University, UK
Yiming Yang (2013-2017), University of Edinburgh, UK
Andreea Radulescu (2011-2016), Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
Alexander Enoch (2010-2015), Robotical Ltd. (RAEng Fellow)
Hsiu-Chin Lin (2010-2015), University of Birmingham, UK
Vladimir Ivan (2010-2015), University of Edinburgh, UK
Luigi Acerbi (2010-2014), New York University, USA
Konrad Rawlik (2008-2013), Roslin Institute, UK
Chris Towell (2008-2013)
Evelina Overlingaite (2009-2013)
Ian Saunders (2007-2011)
Hannes Saal (2007-2011), University of Chicago, USA
Sebastian Bitzer (2006-2010), Max-Planck Institute, Germany
Djordje Mitrovic(2006-2010), Basler Kantonalbank, Switzerland
Matthew Howard (2005-2009), University of Edinburgh, UK
Adrian Haith (2005-2009), John Hopkins University, USA
Narayanan Edakunni (2004-2009), University of Bristol, UK
Tim Hospedales (2004-2008), Queen Mary University, London, UK
Giorgos Petkos (2004-2008), CERTH-ITI, Greece
Graham McNeill (2003-2008), University of Bath, UK

Lei Yan (2019-2021) Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen
Songyan Xin (2019-2021) Dyson, UK
Carlo Tiseo (2018-2021), University of Edinburgh, UK
Sanghyun Kim (2020-2021), Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials, Korea
Wouter Wolfslag (2018-2019), Delft University, Netherlands
Yiming Yang (2017-2019), Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
Jun Nakanishi (2009-2014), ICS, TU Munich, Germany
David Braun (2010-2013), Vanderbildt University, USA
Matthew Howard (2009-2012), King's College, London
Takeshi Mori (2010-2011)
Stefan Klanke (2007-2009), Radboud University Nijemegen, Netherlands
Jo-Anne Ting (2009-2009), University of British Columbia, Canada
Heiko Hoffmann (2006-2007), USC, Los Angeles, USA
Marc Toussaint (2004-2006), TU Berlin, Germany

This article was published on 6 Jan, 2022

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