Robot Perception and Learning Lab

People

Academic Staff

Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas

Lecturer in Robotics and Computation

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

Office: 66-72GS 5.07
Tel: +44 20 7679 8059 (x58059)

Postdoctoral Researcher

Dr. Kirsty Ellis

Research Fellow, UCL-CS

Research Topic: Mobile Manipulation using Machine Learning
Primary Supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Danail Stoyanov

Year: 2020-2021

PhD Students

Denis Hadjivelichkov

PhD Student, UCL-CDT of Foundational AI

Research Topic: Robot Imitation for Loco-Manipulation Actions through Self-supervised Goal Correspondence
Primary Supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas

Year: 2020-2024

Research Topic: Sensorised Robotic Hybrid Manipulators using Suction and Grasping
Primary Supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas
Secondary Supervisor: Prof. Helge Wurdemann

Year: 2020-2024

Julius Sustarevas

PhD Student, UCL-CS

Research Topic: Robotics applied to construction
Primary Supervisor: Prof. Simon Julier
Secondary Supervisors: Prof. Stephen Hailes, Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas

Year: 2018-2022

Vignesh Sushrutha Raghavan

PhD Student at the IIT and UniPi, Italy

Research Topic: Reconfigurable Robot Path Planning
Primary Supervisors: Dr. Nikos G. Tsagarakis, Prof. Darwin Caldwell
Secondary Supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas

Year: 2017-2020

Jackie Kay

PhD Student at the UCL-CS Statistical Machine Learning Group

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

Year: 2020-2023

Sicelukwanda Zwane

PhD Student at the UCL-CS Statistical Machine Learning Group

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

Year: 2020-2024

MSc Students

BSc/MEng Students

Chirag Hegde

MEng student in Computer Science
Research Topic: TBD
Primary Supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas

Year: 2020-2021

Ziheng (Henry) Zhang

BSc student in Computer Science
Research Topic: TBD
Primary Supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas

Year: 2020-2021

Andrei Lazar

MEng student in Computer Science
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
Primary Supervisor: Dr. Yuanchang Liu
Secondary Supervisors: Dr. Dimitrios Kanoulas

Year: 2020-2021

Technicians

Denis Timm

Head of Technical Support Group at UCL, Department of Computer Science

Year: 2019-

Charles Richards

Technical Support Group at UCL HereEast in the Department of Computer Science

Year: 2019-2020

Collaborators

Yasemin Bekiroglu

Assistant Professor in the Automatic Control research group at Chalmers University of Technology and Senior Research Fellow in Statistical Machine Learning Group at UCL

Marc Deisenroth

DeepMind Chair in Artificial Intelligence at University College London and the Deputy Director of UCL’s AI Centre

George Dwyer

Research Fellow in Surgical Robot Vision at the UCL Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering

Simon Julier

Associate Professor at UCL and co-founder of Ariel AI

Iasonas Kokkinos

Associate Professor at UCL and co-founder of Ariel AI

Danail Stoyanov

Professor of Robot Vision at UCL

Allumni can be found: here