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 | Medical Robotics ; Computer Vision ; Medical Image Analysis | 
| website | (Aston Research Explorer) | 
| z.wang47@aston.ac.uk | |
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PhD Students
![]()  | Goodluck Dirichukwu Oguzie (PhD Student) | 
| interests | Machine learning ; Computer Vision ; Human-Robot Interaction ; Robotics ; Reinforcement Learning | 
| 190212683@aston.ac.uk | |
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![]()  | Zakka Vincent Gbouna (PhD Student) | 
| interests | Machine learning ; Computer Vision ; Human-Robot Interaction ; Internet of Things ; Robotics | 
| 220181596@aston.ac.uk | |
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![]()  | Kieran Saunders (PhD Student) | 
| interests | Monocular Depth Estimation ; Computer Vision ; Deep Learning | 
| website | https://kieran514.github.io/ | 
| 190229315@aston.ac.uk | |
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Former PhD Students
![]()  | Renato Barros Arantes (PhD Student) | 
| interests | Computer Vision ; Deep Learning | 
| website | http://www.renatoarantes.org/ | 
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![]()  | Daniel Rodriguez-Criado (PhD Student) | 
| interests | Deep Learning ; Graph Neural Networks ; Robotics ; Sensorised Environments | 
| website | https://vangiel.github.io/ | 
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