People

Academic and professional staff, postdoc researchers, PhD students and alumni

SLMC Group Picture (circa 2024)
SLMC Group Picture (circa 2024)

Academic and Professional Staff

Sethu Vijayakumar (FRSE)

Professor of Robotics; Programme Director, The Alan Turing Institute

  • Humanoid Robotics, Robot Learning, High-Dimensional Motion Planning, Optimal Control, Human Sensorimotor Adaptation, Prosthetics and Exoskeletons

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Postdoctoral Researchers

João Moura

Senior Researcher

  • Learning constrained motions and manipulation with contacts

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PhD & MRes Students

Marina Aoyama

PhD Student

  • Learning from Demonstration, Machine Teaching, Dynamic motor control, Human-robot collaboration

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Victor Leve

PhD Student

  • Humanoid Robots, Machine Learning, Multi-Contact Motion Planning, Locomanipulation

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Andreas Sochopoulos

PhD Student

  • Imitation Learning, Learning from Demonstrations, Human-Robot Collaboration

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Elle Miller

PhD Student

  • Reinforcement learning, Robotic manipulation, multimodal learning (especially vision & tactile), Physical human-robot interaction and assistance

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Elliot Lister

PhD Student

  • Assistive Robotics, Human-Robot Collaboration, Wearable Technology

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Mohammadreza Dindarloo

PhD Student

  • Robotic manipulation, Motion planning, Robot learning, Assistive robotics

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Alex Sykes

MRes Student

  • Robot Manipulation, Machine Learning, Physics-Based Simulation, Computer Graphics

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Kazutaka Omori

MRes Student

  • Dexterous Manipulation, Reinforcement Learning, Behavioral Cloning, Tactile Sensing, Robotic Hands

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Visitors and Interns

Orion Debonnet

Visiting Intern

  • Institut polytechnique des sciences avancées (IPSA)
  • Computer Vision and Robotics

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Giulia De Togni

Visiting Researcher

  • Responsible Research and Innovation for AI and Robotics in the Health and Care sectors; Science and Technology Studies; Social Anthropology; Ethnography.

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Russell Buchanan

Visiting Researcher

  • University of Waterloo
  • Legged robots, state estimation, mapping

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Alumni - PhD Graduates & Postdocs [and their next destinations]

PhD Graduates

Postdocs

  • Namiko Saito (2023-2024), Microsoft Research Asia, Japan
  • Jiayi Wang (2023-2024), BIGAI, Beijing
  • Wenqian Du (2023-2024), TBC
  • Daniel Gordon (2021-2022), Huawei Research Centre, Germany
  • Christian Rauch (2019-2022), Bosch, Germany
  • Vladimir Ivan (2015-2022), Touch Labs, Edinburgh, UK
  • Carlos Mastalli (2019-2022), Heriot Watt University, UK
  • Zeeshan Babar (2021-2022), Heriot Watt University, UK
  • Lei Yan (2019-2021) Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen
  • Songyan Xin (2019-2021) Dyson, UK
  • Carlo Tiseo (2018-2021), University of Edinburgh, UK
  • Sanghyun Kim (2020-2021), Kyung Hee University, Korea
  • Wouter Wolfslag (2018-2019), Delft University, Netherlands
  • Yiming Yang (2017-2019), Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
  • Jun Nakanishi (2009-2014), ICS, TU Munich, Germany
  • David Braun (2010-2013), Vanderbildt University, USA
  • Matthew Howard (2009-2012), King's College, London
  • Takeshi Mori (2010-2011)
  • Stefan Klanke (2007-2009), Radboud University Nijemegen, Netherlands
  • Jo-Anne Ting (2009-2009), University of British Columbia, Canada
  • Heiko Hoffmann (2006-2007), USC, Los Angeles, USA
  • Marc Toussaint (2004-2006), TU Berlin, Germany
SLMC at CoRL 2025
SLMC at CoRL 2025, Seoul, South Korea
SLMC in Tokyo
SLMC team in Tokyo, Japan July 2025
SLMC at ICRA 2024 Yokohama, Japan
SLMC at ICRA 2024 Yokohama, Japan
Ex-PhD student Agamemnon Krasoulis with SLMC team in the Meadows, Edinburgh
Ex-PhD student Agamemnon Krasoulis with SLMC team in the Meadows, Edinburgh
SLMC Group Picture (circa 2022)
SLMC Group Picture (circa 2022)