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People @ ORI

Faculty

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Nick Hawes

Professor of AI & Robotics; Principal Investigator - GOALS; Director of the ORI
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Digby Chappell

Associate Professor in Engineering Science; Principal Investigator - HEAT
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Daniele De Martini

Associate Professor of Engineering Science; Tutorial Fellow at Keble College; Principal Investigator - MRG
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Maurice Fallon

Professor of Robotics; Principal Investigator - DRS-P
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Ioannis Havoutis

Associate Professor in Engineering Science; Principal Investigator - DRS-C
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Perla Maiolino

Associate Professor in Engineering Science; Principal Investigator - SRL; Deputy Director of the ORI
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Paul Newman

BP Professor of Information Engineering; Principal Investigator - MRG
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Oiwi Parker Jones

Hugh Price Fellow in Computer Science; Principal Investigator - PNPL
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Ingmar Posner

Professor of Applied AI; Principal Investigator - A2I

Administration Team

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Melissa Antieul

Communications and Engagement Officer
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Hollie Cater (Dunn)

EA to Paul Newman (on maternity leave)
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Rachel Henning

ORI Administrator (maternity cover)
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Anniella Hutchinson

Graduate Programmes Administrator (Robotics)
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Elsa Lam

Administrative Assistant

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Daniel Marques

Trials Manager
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Jasper Minton-Taylor

Office Manager and PA to the Director
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Julia Ramirez Gonzalez

Senior Project Manager
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Clare Simpson

EA to Paul Newman (maternity cover)
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Timea Thorpe

ORI Administrator (on maternity leave)

Engineers

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Benoit Casseau

Robotics Software Engineer
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Tom Dobra

Senior Research Computing Engineer
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Joel Kellam

Lead Robotic Software and Systems Engineer
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Luke Pitt

Robotic Systems Engineer
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Chris Prahacs

Senior Robotics and Systems Engineer
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Pratik Somaiya

Robotics Software Engineer
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Matthew Towlson

Principal Research Technician
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Ajay Varghese

Robotics Design Engineer

Postdoctoral Researchers

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Luigi Bonassi

Postdoctoral Researcher - GOALS
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Victor-Alexandru Darvariu

Postdoctoral Researcher - GOALS
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Anson Lei

Postdoctoral Researcher - A2I
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Kai Lu

Postdoctoral Researcher - ARG
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Francesco Mantegna

Postdoctoral Researcher - PNPL
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Marco Pontin

Postdoctoral Researcher - SRL
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Jan Quenzel

Postdoctoral Researcher - DRS-P
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Benjamin Ramtoula

Postdoctoral Researcher - MRG
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Luke Robinson

Postdoctoral Researcher - MRG
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Joe Watson

Postdoctoral Researcher - A2I
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Yang You

Postdoctoral Researcher - GOALS

MSc by Research Students

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Kathryn Lampo

MSc by Research Student - GOALS

DPhil Students

2020 +

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Rhys Howard

DPhil Student - GOALS & CRG
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Bechir Tabia

DPhil Student - GOALS & ARG
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Yao Yao

DPhil Student - SRL

2021

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Lara Brudermüller

DPhil Student - GOALS
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Frank Fu

DPhil Student - DRS
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Divya Thuremella

DPhil Student - CRG
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Fengyu Zhong

DPhil Student - SRL
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Shaohong Zhong

DPhil Student - A2I & SRL

2022

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Jumana Baghabrah

DPhil Student - CRG & Comp Sci
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Ana Deligny

DPhil Student - GOALS
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Ben Hardin

DPhil Student - CRG & Comp Sci
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Carl Hentges

DPhil Student - GOALS
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Ningzhe (Lawrence) Hou

DPhil Student - SRL
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Christina Kassab

DPhil Student - DRS
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Reece O'Mahoney

DPhil Student - ARG
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Aristotelis Papatheodorou

DPhil Student - ARG
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Alex Rutherford

DPhil Student - GOALS & Eng Sci
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Michal Staniaszek

DPhil Student - GOALS & DRS

2023

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Vassil Atanassov

DPhil Student - ARG
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Uljad Berdica

DPhil Student - SRL
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Ellis Capp

DPhil Student - SRL
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Mike Groom

DPhil Student - GOALS & CRG
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Roland Ilyes

DPhil Student - GOALS
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Dulhan Jayalath

DPhil Student - PNPL
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Frederik Nolte

DPhil Student - A2I
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Alex Schutz

DPhil Student - GOALS
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Jiahao Wang

DPhil Student - DRS
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Maximilian Westermann

DPhil Student - SRL
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Jianhao Yuan

DPhil Student - CRG & MRG

2024

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Markus Baumgartner

DPhil Student - A2I
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Jacques Cloete

DPhil Student - ARG
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Will Hebberd

DPhil Student - ARG
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Jin Jin

DPhil Student - DRS
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Halil Kelebek

DPhil Student - MRG
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Peter Lacaze

DPhil Student - GOALS
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Harry Mead

DPhil Student - GOALS
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Haedam Oh

DPhil Student - DRS
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Charlotte Reed

DPhil Student - GOALS (and Physical Oceanography in Earth Sciences)
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Bradley Stanley-Clamp

DPhil Student - A2I
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Sitian Shen

DPhil Student - MRG

2025

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Ben Ballyk

DPhil Student - PNPL & A2I
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John Belcher-Heath

DPhil Student - GOALS
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Ufuk Çakır

DPhil Student - GOALS
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Francesco Capuano

DPhil Student - A2I & FLAIR
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Tasha Kim

DPhil Student - PNPL & SRL
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Siqi (Kevin) Tan

DPhil Student - MRG and DRS
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Tianyou Wang

DPhil Student - A2I
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Theo Wolf

DPhil Student - A2I & FLAIR
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Kyuhwan Yeon

DPhil Student - MRG
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Yuhao Zhang

DPhil Student - DRS
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Haoyu Zhou

DPhil Student - A2I
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Xiao Zhou

Dphil Student - GOALS

2026

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Firas Darwish

DPhil Student - A2I
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Ursula Eastwood

Dphil Student - GOALS
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Charlotte Wayment

DPhil Student - HEAT & PNPL

Visitors and Associates

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Lars Kunze

Visiting Fellow
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Robert Skilton

Visiting Professor of Practice

Alumni