People

Academic staff
Senior Lecturer (associate professor)
Academic research visitors
- Andreagiovanni Reina
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Academic research visitor (2021/22)
Thematic areas: swarm robotics, collective decision making, distributed cognition
PhD students
- Jahir Argote Gerald
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PhD student (from 2021/22)
Thematic areas: swarm robotics, model predictive control
- Ed Bray
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PhD student (from 2019/20)
Thematic areas: self-reconfigurable robots, all-terrain navigation
- Yue Gu
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PhD student (from 2016/17)
Thematic areas: machine learning, Turing Learning
- Matthew Hall
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PhD student (from 2017/18)
Thematic areas: self-reconfigurable modular robotics
- Genki Miyauchi
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PhD student (from 2019/20)
Thematic areas: swarm robotics, human-robot interaction
- Zhikun Wang
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PhD student (from 2017/18)
Thematic areas: reinforcement learning
MSc/MEng/BEng students
- Zhen Cao
- Marios Charalampous
- Zheshui Lei
- Bryn Waller
- Cheuk Yuen
- Xiaochen Zhang
Alumni (past PhD students)
- Melvin Gauci
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PhD awarded Jan 2015 (now with Harvard University)
Thesis: Swarm robotic systems with minimal information processing
- Jianing Chen
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PhD student (PhD awarded Mar 2015, now postdoc at University of Manchester)
Thematic areas: swarm robotics, communication and cooperation
Thesis: Cooperation in swarms of robots without communication
- Wei Li
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PhD student (thesis submitted; now postdoc at University of York)
Thematic areas: evolutionary computation, evolutionary and swarm robotics
- Fernando Perez-Diaz
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PhD student (from 2012/13)
Thematic areas: swarm robotics
Thesis: Firefly-inspired synchronization in swarms of mobile agents
- Christopher Parrott
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PhD student (from 2012/13)
Thematic areas: modular reconfigurable robots, self-assembly
Thesis: A hybrid and extendable self-Reconfigurable modular robotic system
- Yuri Kaszubowski Lopes
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PhD student (PhD awarded Mar 2017, now postdoc at The University of Sheffield - EEE)
Thematic areas: swarm robotics, formal methods
Thesis: Supervisory control theory for controlling swarm robotics systems
- Gabriel Kapellmann Zafra
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PhD student (from 2013/14)
Thematic areas: swarm robotics, human-robot interaction, multi-robot systems
Thesis: Human-swarm robot interaction with different awareness constraints
- Leonardo Stella
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PhD awarded Nov 2018; now Lecturer, University of Derby
Thesis: Bio-inspired collective decision-making in game theoretic models and multi-agent systems
- Stefan Trenkwalder
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PhD awarded Mar 2020; now Senior Lecturer, University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien)
- Anıl Özdemir
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PhD awarded April 2020; now postdoc, University of Sheffield
Thematic areas: swarm robotics
Thesis: Synthesis and analysis of minimalist control strategies for swarm robotic systems
- Matthew Doyle
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PhD student (from 2014/15) - thesis defended
Thematic areas: self-reconfigurable robots
- Isaac Vandermeulen
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PhD student (from 2017/18) - thesis defended
Thematic areas: distributed robotics, planning
- João V. Amorim Marques
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Postdoc (from Feb 2020)
PhD student (from 2015/16)
Thematic areas: multi-robot systems, self-reconfigurable robots, underwater robotics
Alumni (post-docs, project students and visitor selection)
- Narmada Herath
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Mappin Medal
BEng student, 2010/11
PhD MIT, now with MathWorks
- Michael Price
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Royal Aeronautical Society Prize
MEng student, 2010/11
now with MBDA
- Stephen Foster
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BEng student, 2010/11
- Pranay Agrawal
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Visiting graduate student, 2011
now with Cruise Automation, San Francisco Bay Area
- Alicja Wasik
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SURE scheme scholar, 2011/12; now with EPFL
- Runxiao Ding
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BEng student, 2011/12
PhD Loughborough University
Now with Jaguar Land Rover
- Zheng Lin
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BEng student, 2011/12
Co-Founder/CEO of Intelligent Robots LTD
- Andrew Hills
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post-doc in 2012
- Juan A Escalera
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Post-doc from 2013-2014
Now assistant professor at Charles III University of Madrid
- Toshiyuki Yasuda
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Visiting lecturer, 2011/12 and 2013/14
- Nicole Salomons
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Academic Research Visitor (2015/16)
Thematic areas: swarm robotics, human-robot interaction
Now with Yale University
- Salomè Bonnet
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Academic Research Visitor (2017)
Thematic areas: computation-free swarming
Now with Yespark, Paris
- Tomohiro Hayakawa
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Academic research visitor, 2017/18
- Federico Pratissoli
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Academic research visitor (2018/19)
Thematic areas: swarm robotics, soft robotics
- Roopika Ravikanna
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Academic research visitor (2018/19)
Thematic areas: AgriFood, swarm robotics
N8 AgriFood, 2018/19
- María-Teresa Lorente
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Postdoc (from Feb 2020)
Thematic areas: multi-robot systems, localisation, navigation
- João V. Amorim Marques
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Postdoc (from Feb 2020)
PhD student (from 2015/16)
Thematic areas: multi-robot systems, self-reconfigurable robots, underwater robotics
- Valerio Riccò
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Academic research visitor (2019/20)
Thematic areas: swarm robotics, modular robots, soft robotics