Current students
Glen Berman PhD candidate since 2020 Topic: Platform mediated ethics: exploring the tools used to engineer Machine Learning systems My role: primary supervisor |
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Joyce Mau PhD candidate since 2018 Topic: Detection, Tracking and Recognition algorithms for 3D Imaging My role: primary supervisor |
Lachlan Spencer Honours candidate since 2023 Topic: Implementing an event camera region of interest filter for real-time object tracking My role: primary supervisor |
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Jack Henderson PhD candidate 2019-2024 Topic: Collaborative Localisation of Autonomous Vehicles: Developing a Minimum-Energy Filter and Experimental Testbed My role: primary supervisor Jack now works as a Research Engineer in the Autonomy Capabilities Team | Boeing CTO office. |
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Caitlin Lovejoy Honours candidate 2023 Report: Data Fusion Algorithms for Collaborative Localisation My role: primary supervisor Caitlin now works as a Graduate Engineer at ITP Renewables. |
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Sean O'Brien PhD candidate 2016-2021 Thesis: Observers for Scene Reconstruction Using Light-Field Measurements My role: primary supervisor Sean now works as a software engineer at Blitzm Systems. |
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Alexander Ollman Honours candidate 2019 Report: Implementation of Pose Estimation Algorithms on the Clearpath Jackal UGV My role: primary supervisor Alex now works as a Data & AI specialist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and serves as Head of Projects for the non-profit Adept Canberra. |
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Ryan Pike Honours candidate 2019 Report: SLAM on SLAM: Benchmarking Monocular Systems My role: primary supervisor After a stint as a Research Assistant with Rob Mahony at the ANU and as Chief Technology Officer of 180 Waste Group, Ryan now works as a Research Engineer at Seeing Machines. |
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Ruth Kravis 3rd year R&D project student 2018/19 Report: What makes a good dataset for light-field camera calibration? My role: primary supervisor After some time as a Research Assistant with the Battery Storage and Grid Integration Program at the ANU, Ruth is now pursuing a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. |
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Gerard Kennedy Honours candidate 2017 Thesis: Squeezing Video out of a Lytro Light Field Camera My role: primary supervisor After completing an MPhil with Rob Mahony at the ANU and some time as a Firmware Engineer at Finisar Corporation (now part of II-VI), Gerard now works as a Software Engineer at Citadel Health. |
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Yash Vyas Honours candidate 2017 Thesis: Robot Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping with Dynamic Objects Primary supervisor: Viorela Ila My role: co-supervisor After some time in corporate IT at Qantas and completing an MSc in Robotics, Systems and Control at ETH Zürich, Yash is now pursuing a PhD with Matteo Bottin at the University of Padova. |
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Katrina Ashton 3rd year R&D project 2017 Report: Representations of Depth Maps: Spherical Harmonics and Wavelets My role: primary supervisor After some time as a Research Assistant at the ANU, splitting her time between the 3A Institute and the School of Engineering, Katrina is now pursuing a PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. |
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Geoffrey Stacey PhD candidate 2012-2017 Thesis: Sensor-based formation control using a generalised rigidity framework and passivity techniques Primary supervisor: Rob Mahony My role: co-supervisor After doing contract work for HydroAlgorithmics and some time at Clearbox in the UK, Geoff is now a Software Engineer at Google. |
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Alireza Khosravian PhD candidate 2012-2017 Thesis: State Estimation for Systems on Lie Groups with Nonideal Measurements My role: primary supervisor After a postdoc with Ian Reid at the University of Adelaide, Ali now works for the Australian Government's patent office IP Australia. |
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Montiel (Monty) Abello Honours (R&D) candidate 2015/6 Thesis: Rigid Body State Estimation From Sparse Range Measurements My role: primary supervisor Monty is now pursuing a PhD with Michael Kaess at Carnegie Mellon University. |
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Francis Snelgar Honours (R&D) candidate 2015 Thesis: Implementation of a Real-time Hand Tracking System in a Heterogeneous Architecture My role: primary supervisor Francis works as a Senior Engineer at Seeing Machines and is now also pursuing a PhD with Stephen Gould at the ANU. |
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Thomas (Tom) Coppin Honours (R&D) candidate 2015 Thesis: Routh Reduction for Flyball Governors My role: sole supervisor Tom is now pursuing a PhD with Anjali Jaiprakash at the Queensland University of Technology node of the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision. |
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Ashkan Amirsadri PhD candidate 2010-2015 Thesis: Very-Large-Scale Distributed Map Making Using Multiple Vehicles Primary supervisor: Lars Petersson My role: advisor Ashkan is now a team leader in the Advanced Production Systems Group at Boeing Research & Technology Australia. |
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Behrooz Nasihatkon PhD candidate 2010-2014 Thesis: Generalizations of the Projective Reconstruction Theorem Primary supervisor: Richard Hartley My role: advisor After a postdoc with Fredrik Kahl at Lund University, Behrooz is now an Assistant Professor at Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology. |
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Khurrum Aftab PhD candidate 2010-2014 Thesis: Generalized Weiszfeld Algorithms for Lq Optimization Primary supervisor: Richard Hartley My role: advisor After a postdoc with Tom Drummond at the Monash University node of the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision, Khurrum is now a Data Scientist at Teradata Global Delivery Center Pakistan. |
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Callum Woods 3rd year R&D project 2014 Report: A competition web service for on-line attitude estimation algorithms My role: primary supervisor |
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Phillipa Crane Honours candidate 2013 Topic: Development of an Automated Opening System for Tamper-Proof Coin Capsules (confidential thesis) My role: academic supervisor This project was co-supervised by Anthony Oh of the Royal Australian Mint. |
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Sharon Tran Honours candidate 2013 Topic: Coin face identification for automatic coin sorting into obverse and reverse (confidential thesis) My role: academic supervisor This project was co-supervised by Anthony Oh of the Royal Australian Mint where Sharon now works as an engineer. |
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Samuel (Sam) Osenieks Honours candidate 2013 Thesis: Development of a Competition Web Service for Attitude Estimation Algorithms My role: primary supervisor |
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Sixue (Cherry) Zhao Honours candidate 2013 Thesis: Design and collection of a benchmarking data set for attitude and pose estimators in UAV applications My role: primary supervisor Cherry now works as Project Coordinator for mgp Building and Infrastructure Services. |
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Mohammad (Behzad) Zamani PhD candidate 2009-2013 Thesis: Deterministic Attitude and Pose Filtering, an Embedded Lie Groups Approach My role: primary supervisor After a couple of postdocs with Valeri Ougrinovski at UNSW Canberra and Pedro Aguiar at Universidade do Porto, Behzad is now a researcher in the Australian Government's Defence Science & Technology Group. |
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Kang Xia Honours candidate 2012 Thesis: Modelling the Contact between a rolling sphere and compliant ground plane My role: primary supervisor After completing a PhD at QUT, Kang is now an Associate Professor at Hohai University in Nanjing, China. |
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Conor Horgan 2nd year R&D project 2012 Topic: Numerical Implementation of Minimum-Energy Filters My role: primary supervisor Conor is now pursuing a PhD with Molly Stevens at Imperial College London. |
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Grant Baldwin PhD candidate 2005-2010 Thesis: Inertial Vision Pose Estimation Using Non-Linear Observers Primary supervisor: Rob Mahony My role: co-supervisor Grant is now working for the Australian government. |
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Desmond Chik PhD candidate 2005-2009 Thesis: 3D Hand Tracking in a Stochastic Approximation Framework My role: primary supervisor After working for Animal Logic for a number of years, co-founding his own company Lumific Inc and selling it to GoPro, Desmond is now a Senior Research Engineer at Google. |
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Priscilla Kan John Honours candidate 2006 Thesis: Advanced Human Hand Model with Dynamic Constraints My role: sole supervisor After completing a PhD in Computer Science with Sylvie Thiébaux at the ANU, Priscilla is now an academic in the School of Computing at the ANU. |
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Felix Schill PhD candidate 2003-2007 Thesis: Efficient Communication in Swarms of Underwater Vehicles Primary supervisor: Uwe Zimmer My role: advisor Felix is now a Scientist in the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL Lausanne, and co-founder of Hydromea SA. |
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Abhinav Somaraju PhD candidate 2004-2007 Thesis: Essential Dimension and Degrees of Freedom for Spatial Waveform Channels My role: primary supervisor After a couple of postdocs with Ian Petersen at UNSW Canberra and Mazyar Mirrahimi at INRIA Rocquencourt, a stint as an academic at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, and some time in the R&D department of Tridonic and as a Technology Strategist at Cisco, Abhinav has now returned to Australia and co-founded Greenlake-Medical in Melbourne. |