Members

Faculty

Prof. Maurice Fallon (IEEE, Senior Member) is an Associate Professor in Engineering Science and a Royal Society University Research Fellow. He leads the Dynamic Robot Systems Group. His research is focused on probabilistic methods for localization and mapping. He has also made research contributions to state estimation for legged robots and is interested in dynamic motion planning and control. Of particular concern is developing methods which are robust in the most challenging situations by leveraging sensor fusion.

Post Docs

Dr. Nived Chebrolu is a Senior Researcher. He joined the ORI in 2021. He is working with the Dynamic Robot Systems Group on navigation and mapping tasks for field robots. During his Ph.D. at the University of Bonn, Nived worked on techniques for localization and mapping for robots in agricultural fields.

Dr. Miguel Ángel Muñoz-Bañón received his PhD in 2022 from the University of Alicante in the robotics and automation research line. He completed his dissertation as part of the AUROVA research group. In 2021, he visited, as a predoc researcher, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. He received the award of the best dissertation in robotics for 2022 in Spain, granted by the Spanish Automatics Committee (CEA). Miguel Ángel is now researching as a postdoc visitor at the Oxford Robotics Institute at the University of Oxford. His research interests include environment reconstruction by implicit representation models in challenging environments and geo-localization for autonomous robots.

Ethan Yifu Tao joined the ORI in 2020. Yifu’s research is focused on 3D reconstruction and its application in robotics. Specifically, he works on techniques to fuse both vision and lidar to get the best of both sensor modalities, and apply them in robotic navigation and inspection tasks. Before he joined ORI, he was an Engineering Science undergraduate also here in Oxford. His final year thesis, supervised by Prof. Philip Torr, is to build an “AI Tailor” system that predicts people’s body shape and body measurements directly from photos captured from a mobile phone.

PhD Students

Jianeng Wang joined the Oxford Robotics Institute in October 2020 as a DPhil student with St. Edmund Hall. He is a member of the Estimation, Search, and Planning (ESP) research group focusing on state estimation. He holds a BEng in Electronic Engineering from the University of Sheffield.

Lanke Frank Tarimo Fu Frank joined the DRS in 2021. He holds a master’s degree in Robotics, Systems and Controls from ETH Zurich. Prior to starting his PhD, he worked on multi-sensor tracking and prediction for autonomous driving at Oxa. At DRS, his research tackles multi-sensor correspondence learning, calibration and active perception, using differentiable optimisation. In his spare time he enjoys tinkering at the intersection of cooking and robotics, and amateur photography.

Christina Kassab joined the Oxford Robotics Institute in October 2022 as a DPhil student at St. Edmund Hall. Before joining the programme, she received an MEng degree in Biomedical Engineering from Imperial College London. Christina is passionate about building visual semantic mapping and navigation systems for robots embedded with vision-language models.

Joseph Rowell joined the Institute in 2022 for a DPhil in Engineering Science. He has a BEng (hons) in Biomedical Engineering at King’s College London, and an MSc in Robotics and Computation from UCL. Joseph is working on 3D change detection.

Jiahao Wang is a second year PhD student in ORI. He completed his MSc degree in Engineering Science in Oxford in 2023.

Haedam Oh is a first year project student working on semantic mapping and lidar place recognition. He completed his MSc degree in Engineering Science in Oxford in 2024. This 4YP project was part of our research into forest robotics as part of the DigiForest EU project.

Yuhao Zhang is starting his PhD in October 2025. His undergrad degree is from Manchester and his MSc from Cambridge.

Mengyuan Yin is starting her PhD in October 2025. Her undergrad degree is from Imperial College London and she has carried out research in ETH Zurich and A*STAR in Singapore.

Kevin Siqi Tan is starting the RAINZ CDT PhD programme in October 2025. He has recently completed his MSc degree in New York University.

MSc Students and Visitors

Dylan Brown is visiting ORI from University of Pretoria and working on 3D change detection.

Yibin Wu is visiting ORI from University of Bonn and working on visual reconstruction with IMU fusion.

Helen Fan is working localisation in NeRFs.

Harry Graves is studying visual SLAM and reconstruction.

Alumni

Dr. Matías Mattamala (DPhil 2023 and PostDoc). Next: PostDoc, Edinburgh
Dr. Lintong Zhang (DPhil 2024). Next: NavLive
Dr. David Wisth (PostDoc 2023). Next: NavLive
Dr. Rowan Border (PostDoc 2023). Next: Uni. of Cyprus
Dr. Oliwier Melon (DPhil 2023). Next: Systems Engineer, Moog
Dr. Yiduo Wang (DPhil 2023). Next: PostDoc, Uni. of Sydney
Dr. Russell Buchanan (DPhil 2023). Next: PostDoc, Uni. of Edinburgh
Dr. Marco Camurri (PostDoc, then Senior Researcher 2022). Next: Faculty, Uni. of Bolzano
Dr. David Wisth (DPhil 2022). Next: PostDoc, DRS
Dr. Milad Ramezani (PostDoc 2021). Next: Senior Researcher, CSIRO
Dr. Georgi Tinchev (DPhil 2020). Next: Applied Scientist, Amazon
Dr. Romeo Orsolino (PostDoc 2020). Next: Engineer, Arrival
Dr. Christian Rauch (PhD, Edinburgh 2020). Next: PostDoc, Edinburgh
Dr. Raluca Scona (PhD, Edinburgh 2020). Next: PostDoc, Imperial College London
Dr. Simona Nobili (PhD, Edinburgh 2019). Next: Holoride
Dr. Adrian Penate Sanchez (PostDoc 2019). Next: Lecturer, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria