Alumni

Research Fellows

Dr. Kirsty Ellis, Research Fellow, University College London (UCL), Department of Computer Science, 10/2020-02/2022
Next: Haply Robotics (Canada); Embedded Systems Research and Integration Engineer
Research Topic: Navigation Among Movable Objects using Serach-Based Methods
Supervisors Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL-CS; primary), Danail Stoyanov (UCL-CS; secondary)

Research Assistants

Leon Yao, Research Assistant, University College London (UCL), Department of Computer Science, 03/2022-09/2023
Next: TBA
Research Topic: Navigation Among Movable Objects using Reinforcement Learning
Supervisors Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL-CS; primary), Danail Stoyanov (UCL-CS; secondary)

PhD Students

Julius Sustarevas, PhD Student, UCL-CS/Arup, 09/2018-06/2022
Next: Automata (UK); Robotics Engineer - Control
Research Topic: Robotics Applied to Construction
Supervisors: Simon Julier (UCL-CS; primary), Dimitrios Kanoulas (IIT-HHCM; primary)

Vignesh Sushrutha Raghavan, PhD Student, Italian Institute of Technology and University of Pisa, 09/2017-06/2022
Next: Italian Institute of Technology (Italy); Postdoc
Research Topic: Reconfigurable Robot Path Planning
Supervisors: Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL-CS; primary), Nikos Tsagarakis (IIT-HHCM; primary), Darwin Caldwell (IIT-HHCM; secondary)

Visiting Students

Samuel Aron, High-School Student, High School Student, Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle de Londres, 06/2023-06/2023
Research Topic: QR Markers for Legged Robots.
Supervisors at UCL: Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL-CS; host)

Wanming Yu, PhD Student, Edinburgh Centre for Robotics, 05/2023-07/2023
Research Topic: Reinforcement Learning Control for Robot Locomotion.
Supervisors at UCL: Dimitrios Kanoulas, Alex Li (UCL-CS; host).

Olga Napolitano, PhD Student, University of Pisa, 04/2023-06/2023
Research Topic: Active Sensing for Model Learning on Quadrupeds Robot.
Supervisors at UCL: Dimitrios Kanoulas, Valerio Modugno (UCL-CS; host)

Giovanni Franzese, PhD Student, University of Pisa, 09/2022-10/2022
Research Topic: Learning from Demonstration via GP.
Supervisors at UCL: Prof. Marc Desenorth (UCL-CS; host), Dr. Yasemin Bekiroglu (UCL-CS; host), Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL-CS; host)

Fernando Acero Marchesotti, PhD Student, Edinburgh Centre for Robotics 03/2022-06/2022
Research Topic: Develop and test reinforcement learning control policies for robot locomotion.
Supervisors: Alex Li (UCL-CS; primary), Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL-CS; host)

MSc Students

Michael Adlerstein, MSc student in Robotics and Computation, University College London (UCL), Department of Computer Science, 05/2023-09/2023
Next: TBA
Research Topic: Enhancing Locomotion with Planar Insights: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
Supervisors: Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL-CS; primary), Maria Stamatopoulou, Stuart Shanks, Dr. Valerio Modugno (UCL-CS; secondary)

Xiang Long, MSc student in Robotics and Computation, University College London (UCL), Department of Computer Science, 05/2023-09/2023
Next: TBA
Research Topic: Integrating Affordances and Object Identification for Autonomous Grasping
Supervisors: Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL-CS; primary), Luke Beddow, Denis Hadjivelichkov (UCL-CS; secondary)

Jacob Nash, MSc student in Robotics and Computation, University College London (UCL), Department of Computer Science, 05/2023-09/2023
Next: TBA
Research Topic: Vision-Base Fire Safety Equipment Exploration using Quadrupedal Robots
Supervisors: Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL-CS; primary), Jianwei Liu, Jonathan Embley-Riches (UCL-CS; secondary)

Leon Yao, MSc student in Machine Learning, University College London (UCL), Department of Computer Science, 05/2023-09/2023
Next: TBA
Research Topic: Efficient Bayesian Neural Networks for Outdoor Semantic Scene Understanding Tasks in Robotics
Supervisors: Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL-CS; primary), Denis Hadjivelichkov (UCL-CS; secondary)

b>Minghan Zhao, MSc student in Robotics and Computation, University College London (UCL), Department of Computer Science, 05/2023-09/2023
Next: TBA
Research Topic: Clustering based Fast Plane Segmentation with PointNet++ from Noisy Point Cloud Data
Supervisors: Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL-CS; primary), Primary Supervisor; Co-Supervised with Jianwei Liu, Jonathan Embley-Riches, Valerio Modugno (UCL-CS; secondary)

Wing Chung Law, MSc student in Robotics and Computation, University College London (UCL), Department of Computer Science, 05/2022-09/2022
Next: ecoSUB Robotics Ltd; Robotics & Embedded Software Engineer
Research Topic: Vision-based Robotic Grasping with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Supervisors: Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL-CS; primary), Luke Beddow (UCL-CS; secondary)

Jianwei Liu, MSc student in Robotics and Computation, University College London (UCL), Department of Computer Science, 05/2022-09/2022
Next: PhD Student; UCL-CS
Research Topic: Path Planning for Quadrupedal Robots
Supervisors: Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL-CS; primary), Valerio Modugno (UCL-CS; secondary)

Stuart Shanks, MSc student in Robotics and Computation, University College London (UCL), Department of Computer Science, 05/2022-09/2022
Next: PhD Student; UCL-CS
Research Topic: Quadrupedal Robot Locomotion via Model-Predictive Control
Supervisors: Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL-CS; primary), Valerio Modugno (UCL-CS; secondary)

Feilong Yan, MSc student in Machine Learning, University College London (UCL), Department of Computer Science, 05/2022-09/2022
Next: CYENS Centre of Excellence; Research InternResearch Intern
Research Topic: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Advanced Quadrupedal Locomotion from Vision
Supervisors: Vassilis Vassiliades (CYENS; primary), Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL-CS; secondary)

Jack Cook, MSc student in Robotics and Computation, University College London (UCL), Department of Computer Science, 01/2021-09/2021
Next: Medtronic Digital Surgery; Computer Vision Engineer/Researcher
Research Topic: Vision-Based Drone Landing
Supervisors: Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL-CS; primary), Luke Beddow (UCL-CS; secondary)

Alejandro Halpern Pastor, MSc student in Robotics and Computation, University College London (UCL), Department of Computer Science, 01/2021-09/2021
Next: Iprova (UK); Invention Engineer
Research Topic: RL-Based Whole-Bpdy Control
Supervisors: Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL-CS; primary), Denis Hadjivelichkov (UCL-CS; secondary)

Zinan Liu, MSc student in Robotics and Computation, University College London (UCL), Department of Computer Science, 01/2021-09/2021
Next: Jaguar Land Rover (UK); Product Engineer Software
Research Topic: Vision-Based Drone Landing
Supervisors: Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL-CS; primary), Luke Beddow (UCL-CS; secondary)

Yuhang Ma, MSc student in Robotics and Computation, University College London (UCL), Department of Computer Science, 01/2021-09/2021
Next: NetEase, Inc (China)
Research Topic: Navigation Among Movable Objects
Supervisors: Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL-CS; primary), Simon Julier (UCL-CS; secondary), Kirsty Ellis (UCL-CS; secondary)

Arundathi Shaji Shanthini, MSc student in Robotics and Computation, University College London (UCL), Department of Computer Science, 01/2021-09/2021
Next: Oxford Robotics Institute
Research Topic: 3D Object Localization
Co-Supervised with S. Julier, K. Ellis (UCL-CS)

Edoardo Barbieri, MSc student in Robotics and Computation, University College London (UCL), Department of Computer Science, 01/2021-09/2021
Next: Canonical (UK); Product Manager
Research Topic: Visual and Force/Torque-Based Terrain Segmentation
Co-Supervised with S. Julier (UCL-CS)

Martin Craiu Muller, MSc student in Robotics and Computation, University College London (UCL), Department of Computer Science, 01/2020-10/2020
Next: Agile Robots AG; Robotic Application Engineer
Research Topic: Whole-body Grasping for a Robot Manipulator

Denis Hadjivelichkov, MSc student in Robotics and Computation, University College London (UCL), Department of Computer Science, 01/2020-09/2020
Next: PhD student at UCL-CS, UK
Research Topic: Whole-Body Mobile Manipulation with Reinforcement Learning

Wenguang Lin, MSc student in Robotics and Computation, University College London (UCL), Department of Computer Science, 01/2020-09/2020
Next: Goldman Sachs (Facilities Analyst)
Research Topic: SLAM Autocompletion and Exploration
Co-Supervised with S. Julier (UCL-CS), A. Lilienthal and M. Magnusson (Orebro Univ.)

Jingyi Liu, MSc student in Robotics and Computation, University College London (UCL), Department of Computer Science, 01/2020-09/2020
Next: Huawei Dongguan (China); Software Engineer
Research Topic: Garbage Segmentation and Localization for Mobile Robot Grasping

Yusheng Tian, MSc student in Robotics and Computation, University College London (UCL), Department of Computer Science, 01/2020-09/2020
Next: KUKA (Shanghai, China); Software Engineer
Research Topic: Navigation Among Movable Objects
Co-Supervised with S. Julier (UCL-CS)

Xuezhi Wei, MSc student in Robotics and Computation, University College London (UCL), Department of Computer Science, 01/2020-09/2020
Next: TBA
Research Topic: Falling Object Tracking and Mapping
Co-Supervised with S. Julier (UCL-CS), Z. Lu (UCL-CS), S. Leutenegger (Imperial-CS)

BSc/MEng Students

Shirui Lyu, BSc student, University College London (UCL), Department of Computer Science, 2022-2023
Next: TBD Research Topic: Data-driven Methods on Legged Robot Path Planning
Primary Supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas
Secondary Supervisor: Denis Hadjivelichkov, Jianwei Liu

Wenjie Chen, BSc student, University College London (UCL), Department of Computer Science, 2021-2022
Next: TBD Research Topic: ChessRobot: Visual Chess Piece Localization for Playing Chess
Primary Supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas

Mohammad Syed, MEng student, University College London (UCL), Department of Computer Science, 2021-2022
Next: TBD Research Topic: ChessRobot: Pick-and-Place Chess Pieces using 3D Vision on a Robot Manipulator
Primary Supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas

Chirag Hegde, MEng student in Computer ScienceUniversity College London (UCL), Department of Computer Science, 2021-2022
Next: Independent Contractor at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Research Topic: Analysing the Efficacy of Different Methods of Task Allocation Between Drones in a Multi-agent Task
Primary Supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas

Ziheng (Henry) Zhang

BSc student in Computer Science

Next: Software Engineer at Tencent Research Topic: Navigation Among Movable Obstacles in Photorealist Simulation
Primary Supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas

Year: 2020-2021

Andrei Lazar

MEng student in Computer Science

Next: Research Assistant at UCL-CS Research Topic: Rover Simulation
Primary Supervisor: Rae Harbird
Secondary Supervisors: Prof. Simon Julier, Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas, Dr. Sebastian Friston

Year: 2020-2021

Linghong Yao

BSc student in Mechanical Engineering

Research Topic: Scene Segmentation for UAVs
Next: Research Assistant at UCL-CS
Primary Supervisor: Dr. Yuanchang Liu
Secondary Supervisors: Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas

Year: 2020-2021

Research Interns

Kefeng Huang, BSc student, University College London (UCL), Department of Computer Science, 05/2022-09/2022
Next: BSc student at UCL-CS
Research Topic: myAGV: The world’s smallest 6-DOF compound robot
Supervisors: Francisco Vasconcelos (UCL-CS; primary), Dimitrios Kanoulas (UCL-CS; secondary), Eddie Edwards (UCL-CS; secondary)

Jaydeep Godbole, BSc Student, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, Department of Electrical Engineering, 05/2020-08/2020
Next: USC MS in Computer Science
Research Topic: Enable Mobile Manipulation in Simulation

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