I am an Associate Professor in Robotics in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW Sydney. My research focuses on embodied intelligence and collective robotics, including efficient learning systems, recurrent neural networks, and autonomous platforms operating in physical environments.
My work covers learning and decision-making under uncertainty, multi-robot coordination, decentralised perception, and long-horizon autonomy. My earlier and cross-domain work includes health, human performance, sensor networks, smart infrastructure, environmental systems, visual perception, information theory, and complex systems.
Selected timeline
- Koblenz: PhD in Artificial Intelligence and the origins of SimSpark.
- Bremen and Newcastle: robotics, multi-agent systems, and recurrent models.
- CSIRO / Data61: Research Team Leader working across sensing, physical systems, and machine learning.
- Western Sydney University: senior academic leadership, assistive-living research, and student robotics teams.
- UNSW Sydney: Associate Professor in Robotics and lead of the Embodied Intelligence and Collective Robotics Lab.