People

PDRA

• Dr. Jongmin Yu, on the Innovate UK ARRES PREVENT project.

PhD Students

Main Supervisor

• Daniel Fernandes Gomes, co-supervision with Dr Paolo Paoletti (Oct., 2018 to present). Research topic: tactile sensing, simulation of tactile sensing
• Jiaqi Jiang, co-supervision with Dr. Thanh-Toan Do (Sep. 2019 to present). Research topic: transparent object detection and grasping, robot vision and tactile sensing
• Konstantinos (Kostas) Alexandridis, co-supervision with Dr Anh Nguyen (Sep. 2019 to present). Research topic: Long-tail object detection
• Guanqun Cao, co-supervision with Prof. Danuashka Bollegala, (Sep. 2019 to present). Research topic: tactile sensing, generative models
• Aaron Butterworth, co-supervision with Prof. Andy Cooper, (Sep. 2020 to present). Research topic: laboratory automation, visuo-tactile learning

Alumni

• Mr. Zixi Chen, intern at the lab, now Ph.D student at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA).
• Dr. Nathan (Zhenxi) Cui, on the EPSRC ViTac project.
• Dr. Leszek Pecyna, on the EPSRC ViTac project, now at Manufacturing Technology Centre, Liverpool.
• Dr. Benjamin Schnieders†
• Dr. Gregory Palmer, now a postdoc at the L3S Research Center, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany.
• Dr. James Butterworth
• Dr. Jacopo Castellini
• Miss Lauren Parker, on the CDBB project

†Sadly, in December 2018 Benjamin Schnieders passed away, right before he would start writing his dissertation. He published his work at venues like AAMAS, ECAI and IROS, and participated several times in the RoboCup@Work competition. We collected his work into one document and on June 2nd 2020 he successfully passed his posthumous PhD viva in Liverpool. Congratulations Benjamin, Dr. Schnieders, we are very proud of you. https://cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~bsc/