Kim Tien joined the [Dynamic Robot Systems Group] (https://ori.ox.ac.uk/labs/drs/) at the Oxford Robotics Institute in 2021 as a DPhil student under the supervision of Prof. Ioannis Havoutis.
Kim Tien is passionate about robotics autonomy through artificial intelligence. She earned her MSc in Computer Science with distinction from the University of Nottingham, where she worked on reinforcement learning and trajectory planning with learning from demonstration.
During her DPhil, she developed task and motion planning solutions targeting embodied intelligence for mobile manipulators. Her work explored hierarchical optimization, sampling-based techniques, and foundation models for robotic planning in both domestic and industrial settings.
At the end of 2024, Kim Tien was hired as a Postdoctoral Researcher by the Oxford Robotics Institute. Currently, she investigates the coordination of locomotion and manipulation in an integrated system featuring a robotic arm mounted on a legged robot, with a focus on planning for contact-rich tasks.
