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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
Secured over AUD $7.7 million in external research funding
Chief Investigator on 33 externally funded grants
Served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence and IEEE Robotics and Autonomous Systems Letters
Published 22 book chapters, 106 journal articles, 158 conference papers, 26 preprints, 1 thesis, and 1 conference poster
Notable achievements: vision-based terrain following for unmanned helicopters, landing UAVs on moving deck simulators, and neural network-based helicopter control
Research Experience
Visual flight control
Advanced control including neural control, fuzzy logic, and adaptive control
Robotic swarming
Biologically inspired vision and control
Trusted autonomy
Current projects include autonomous UAV flight in cluttered environments using monocular cameras and range sensors, landing UAVs on moving platforms, adaptive flight control for flapping-wing and rotary-wing vehicles, and self-organizing swarms of unmanned systems
Background
Research focuses on sensing, guidance, and control for autonomous systems
Expertise includes robotics, swarm robotics, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), artificial intelligence, computer vision, and machine learning
Currently AI Theme Lead for the Defence Trailblazer Universities: Concept to Sovereign Capability initiative (>$200 million funding)
Senior Member of IEEE, Senior Lifetime Member of AIAA, and Member of the American Helicopter Society (AHS)
Former Chair (2017–2020) of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Task Force on Ethics and Social Implications of Computational Intelligence
Co-founder of the UNSW Canberra AI and Robotics (AIR) Group