Members
Academic Staff
![]() | Dr Luis J. Manso (Senior Lecturer in Computer Science) (main point of contact) |
| interests | Active Perception ; Assistive Robotics ; Machine Learning on Graphs ; Software Engineering for Robotics |
| website | (personal) https://ljmanso.com ; (Aston Research Explorer) |
| l.manso@aston.ac.uk | |
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![]() | Dr Martin Rudorfer (Lecturer in Computer Science) |
| interests | Robotic Grasping & Manipulation ; Reproducibility in Robotics Research ; Ethical Robotics & AI |
| website | https://mrudorfer.github.io/ - (Aston Research Explorer) |
| rudorfem@aston.ac.uk | |
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![]() | Dr Zhuangzhuang Dai (Lecturer in Computer Science) |
| interests | SLAM ; Deep Learning ; Embedded AI ; Visual Captioning |
| website | (Aston Research Explorer) |
| z.dai1@aston.ac.uk | |
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![]() | Dr Alexandros Giagkos (Lecturer in Computer Science) |
| interests | Swarm Intelligence ; Network-Aware Multi-Robot Systems ; Bio-Inspired Computer Networks ; Evolutionary and Developmental Robotics |
| website | (Aston Research Explorer) |
| a.giagkos@aston.ac.uk | |
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![]() | Dr James Borg (Lecturer in Computer Science) |
| interests | Artificial Life ; Evolutionary Systems ; Neuroevolution ; Social Learning ; Evolutionary Robotics ; Adaptive Behaviour |
| website | https://www.jmborg.com/ - (Aston Research Explorer) |
| j.borg@aston.ac.uk | |
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![]() | Dr Alireza Rastegarpanah (Lecturer in Robotics and AI) |
| interests | robotics ; machine vision ; Human-Robot-Interaction ; AI-driven robotics ; Robotic remanufacturing |
| website | (personal website) |
| a.rastegarpanah@aston.ac.uk | |
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![]() | Dr Abdullah Alhusin Alkhdur (Lecturer in Industrial Robotics and Manufacturing Automation) |
| interests | Industrial robotics ; Human-robot collaboration ; Brain-robot interface ; Robot energy |
| website | (Aston Research Explorer) |
| a.alhusinalkhdur@aston.ac.uk | |
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![]() | Dr Ziyang Wang (Lecturer in Robotics and AI) |
| interests | Computer Vision ; Medical Image Analysis ; Medical Robotics |
| website | (Aston Research Explorer) |
| z.wang47@aston.ac.uk | |
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Postdoctoral researchers
![]() | Dr Kieran Saunders (postdoctoral researcher) |
| interests | Monocular Depth Estimation ; Computer Vision ; Vision-based manipulation |
| website | https://kieran514.github.io/ |
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PhD Students
![]() | Xuhan Zhang (PhD Student) |
![]() | Qurat Ul Ain Majid (PhD Student) |
Former PhD Students
![]() | Renato Barros Arantes (PhD) |
| interests | Computer Vision ; Deep Learning |
| website | http://www.renatoarantes.org/ |
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![]() | Daniel Rodriguez-Criado (PhD) |
| interests | Deep Learning ; Graph Neural Networks ; Robotics ; Sensorised Environments |
| website | https://vangiel.github.io/ |
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![]() | Goodluck Dirichukwu Oguzie (PhD) |
| interests | Machine learning ; Computer Vision ; Human-Robot Interaction ; Robotics ; Reinforcement Learning |
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![]() | Zakka Vincent Gbouna (PhD) |
| interests | Machine learning ; Computer Vision ; Human-Robot Interaction ; Internet of Things ; Robotics |
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![]() | Kieran Saunders (PhD) |
| interests | Monocular Depth Estimation ; Computer Vision ; Deep Learning |
| website | https://kieran514.github.io/ |
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