People

(Ordered by entrance date and last name)

Academic Staff

Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas

Associate Professor in Robotics and Computation

Research: perception & learning for mobile robot navigation, articulated robot manipulation, and legged robot locomotion

Office: 66-72GS 5.04

Research Fellows (PostDocs)

Jiao Jianhao

Research Fellow, UCL-CS

Research Topic: Legged Robot Learning (Cognition and Planning)
Primary Supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas

Year: 2023-2025

Valerio Modugno

Research Fellow, UCL-CS

Research Topic: Legged Robot Learning (Control and Planning)
Primary Supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas

Year: 2022-2025

Research Assistants

Sebastian Ægidius

Research Assistant, UCL-CS

Research Topic: Robot Learning for Cogntion
Primary Supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas

Year: 2023-2024

PhD Students

Sara Aldhaheri

PhD Student, UCL-MechEng

Research Topic: Towards Autonomous Underwater Manipulation
Primary Supervisor: Dr. Yuanchang Liu
Secondary Supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas

Year: 2024-2028

Adrian Szvoren

PhD Student, UCL-Cybersecurity CDT

Research Topic: Preventing Legged Robots from Adversarial Attacks
Primary Supervisor: Dr. Nilufer Tuptuk
Secondary Supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas

Year: 2023-2027

Jonathan Embley-Riches

PhD Student, UCL-EPSRC DTP

Research Topic: TBA
Primary Supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas
Secondary Supervisor: Dr. Carlo Ciliberto

Year: 2022-2026

Jianwei Liu

PhD Student, UCL-CDT of Foundational AI

Research Topic: Continual Life Long Learning and Adaptation for Legged Robots Planning
Primary Supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas
Secondary Supervisor: TBA

Year: 2022-2026

Stuart Shanks

PhD Student, UCL-CDT of Foundational AI

Research Topic: Continuous Reinforcement Learning for Quadruped Robots
Primary Supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas
Secondary Supervisor: Dr. Carlo Ciliberto

Year: 2022-2026

Daniel Tan

PhD Student, UCL-CS

Research Topic: TBA
Primary Supervisor: TBA
Secondary Supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas

Year: 2022-2026

Jincheng Wang

PhD Student, UCL-CS

Research Topic: Cooperative Learning and Control for Multi-Robot Systems
Primary Supervisor: Dr. Diego Martinez
Secondary Supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas

Year: 2022-2026

Maria Stamatopoulou

PhD Student, UCL-CS

Research Topic: Legged Robot Locomotion for Monitoring of Hazardous Environments
Primary Supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas
Secondary Supervisor: Prof. Simon Julier

Year: 2021-2025

Rokas Bendikas

PhD Student, UCL-CS

Research Topic: Learning Multi-stage Manipulation in Complex Environments
Primary Supervisor: Prof. Daniel Stoyanov
Secondary Supervisor: Dr. Francisco Vasconcelos, Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas

Year: 2021-2025

PhD Student (Machine Learning, Robotics, Reinforcement Learning) at the UCL Computer Science (EPSRC CDT FAI)

Luke Jonathan Beddow

PhD Student, UCL-EPSRC DTP

Research Topic: Autonomous Robotic Gripping for Grocery Handling
Primary Supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas
Secondary Supervisor: Prof. Helge Wurdemann

Year: 2020-2024

Denis Hadjivelichkov

PhD Student, UCL-CDT of Foundational AI

Research Topic: Towards Self-Supervised Robot Affordance Learning
Primary Supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas
Secondary Supervisor: Prof. Marc Deisenroth

Year: 2020-2024

Sicelukwanda Zwane

PhD Student, UCL-CDT of Foundational AI

Research Topic: Machine learning, Robotics, Transfer Learning, Reinforcement Learning
Primary Supervisors: Prof. Marc Deisenroth
Secondary Supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas

Year: 2020-2024

Jackie Kay

PhD Student, UCL-CDT of Foundational AI

Research Topic: Machine learning, Robotics, Reinforcement Learning, Meta learning
Primary Supervisors: Prof. Marc Deisenroth
Secondary Supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas

Year: 2020-2023

Allumni can be found: here

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