People
(Ordered by entrance date and last name)
Academic Staff
Professor in Robotics & AI
Research: perception & learning for mobile robot navigation, articulated robot manipulation, and legged robot locomotion
Office: 66-72GS 5.04
Research Fellows/Assistants
Research Fellow, UCL-CS (Encode FEllowship)
Research Topic: AI for Robot World Models
Primary Supervisor: Dimitrios Kanoulas
Secondary Supervisor: Lorenzo Jamone
Year: 01/09/2025-31/12/2026
Research Fellow, UCL-CS (
Research Topic: Embodied Perception and Intelligent Interaction Methods Driven by Multimodal Large Models
Primary Supervisor: Dimitrios Kanoulas
Year: 01/07/2025 - 30/07/20257
Senior Research Fellow, UCL-CS
Research Topic: Legged Robot Learning (Cognition and Planning)
Primary Supervisor: Dimitrios Kanoulas
Year: 2023-2025
PhD Students
PhD Student, UCL-CS/Mathworks
Research Topic: Understanding Cheetah Locomotion using Inverse Reinforcement Learning
Primary Supervisor: Amir Patel, Dimitrios Kanoulas
Year: 2026-2030
PhD Student, Archimedes/Athena RC
Research Topic: Legged Robot Path Planning in the Wild
Primary Supervisor: Dimitrios Kanoulas
Year: 2025-2029
PhD Student, UCL-CS
Research Topic: TBD
Primary Supervisor: Dimitrios Kanoulas
Secondary Supervisor: TBD
Year: 2024-2028
PhD Student, UCL-MechEng
Research Topic: Towards Autonomous Underwater Manipulation
Primary Supervisor: Yuanchang Liu
Secondary Supervisor: Dimitrios Kanoulas
Year: 2024-2028
PhD Student, UCL-Cybersecurity CDT
Research Topic: Adversarial Attacks for Legged Robots
Primary Supervisor: Nilufer Tuptuk
Secondary Supervisor: Dimitrios Kanoulas
Year: 2023-2027
PhD Student, UCL-EPSRC DTP
Research Topic: Capability-Awar Robot Perception and Planning
Primary Supervisor: Dimitrios Kanoulas
Secondary Supervisor: Carlo Ciliberto
Year: 2022-2026
PhD Student, UCL-CDT of Foundational AI
Research Topic: Efficient High-level Quadruped Motion Planning on Challenging Terrains
Primary Supervisor: Dimitrios Kanoulas
Secondary Supervisor: Yuanchang Liu
Year: 2022-2026
PhD Student, UCL-CDT of Foundational AI
Research Topic: Metric-Semantic World Models For Embodied AI
Primary Supervisor: Dimitrios Kanoulas
Secondary Supervisor: Carlo Ciliberto
Year: 2022-2026
PhD Student, UCL-CS
Research Topic: Interpretability for RL Agents
Primary Supervisor: Brooks Paige
Secondary Supervisor: Dimitrios Kanoulas
Year: 2022-2026
PhD Student, UCL-CS
Research Topic: Reinforcement Learning with Transformers
Primary Supervisor: Diego Martinez
Secondary Supervisor: Dimitrios Kanoulas
Year: 2022-2026
PhD Student, UCL-CS
Research Topic: Perceptive Quadrupedal Locomotion in Challenging Environments
Primary Supervisor: Dimitrios Kanoulas
Secondary Supervisor: Simon Julier
Year: 2021-2025
PhD Student, UCL-CS
Research Topic: Learning Multi-stage Manipulation in Complex Environments
Primary Supervisor: Daniel Stoyanov
Secondary Supervisor: Francisco Vasconcelos, Dimitrios Kanoulas
Year: 2021-2025
Visiting Students
Visiting BSc Student, Northeastern Univ., Boston, USA
Research Topic: Quadruped Robot Path Planning
Primary Supervisor: Dimitrios Kanoulas
Secondary Supervisor: Jianhao Jiao
Year: 01/09/2025-31/12/2025
Visiting PhD Student, Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy
Research Topic: Quadruped Robot Recovery
Primary Supervisor: Dimitrios Kanoulas
Secondary Supervisor: Jianhao Jiao
Year: 01/08/2025-31/01/2026
Visiting PhD Student, Institute of Robotics and Automatic Information System, Nankai University, China
Research Topic: Social Navigation with Legged Robots
Primary Supervisor: Dimitrios Kanoulas
Secondary Supervisor: Jianhao Jiao
Year: 2024-2025 (1 year)
BSc/MEng Students
BCs Student, UCL-CS
Research Topic: Sound Analysis on Legged Robots
Primary Supervisor: Dimitrios Kanoulas
Year: 2024-2025
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