Director
Prof. Mirko Kovac Director & Reader in Aero Structures Room 326, CAGB, South Kensington Campus
PhD, (EPFL). Postdoctoral researcher, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering (Harvard University). My research focus is on the development of novel, biologically inspired flying robots for distributed sensing in air and water on autonomous robotic construction with particular specialisation is in robot design, fluid-structure interaction and multi-modal robot mobility.
Management
Dr Ashutosh Choubey Programme Manager Room 141a, CAGB, South Kensington Campus
PhD, Delhi University India. MBA, Durham University. Joined ARL December 2019. A business development consultant with background as a material research scientist. I focus on managing the ongoing research proje cts, strengthening links with current collaborators and building new relationships.
Sofia Shamim Personal assistant to Prof. Mirko Kovac Room 141A, CAGB, South Kensington Campus
B.A. Information Management & Finance. Joined ARL March 2020. Providing PA support to Prof. Kovac and project and administrative support to the ARL.
Research Associates and Visiting Faculty
Sophie Armanini Research Associate
PhD, Delft University of Technology, 2018. Joined the ARL in April 2018. Research project: dynamics and control of multi-modal robots. Research focus on the (aero)dynamics and control of novel bio-inspired aerial-aquatic robots, with the aim of providing new insight, supporting new design solutions, enabling new applications.
Dr Aslan Miriyev Materials Scientist/Visiting Researcher
PhD Materials Engineering,Ben-Gurion University, 2015. J oined the ARL in October 2019. Research project: Biological Artificial Muscle; Soft Actuation Materials; Bio-hybrid Aerial Robotics. My research focuses on the materials-robotics nexus, aiming at developing robotic materials and creating intelligent robots of the future.
Raphael Zufferey Research Engineer
MSc, EPFL, 2015. Joined the ARL in March 2016. Research projects: SailMAV, AquaMAV. Robotics and micro-technology postdoctoral engineer with extensive experience in mobile autonomous systems.
Dr Salua Hamaza Research Associate
PhD Robotics and Autonomous Systems, University of Bristol 2019. Joined the ARL in November 2019. My focus is on the design, control and integration of a novel manipulation system for aerial robotics applications.
Dr Basaran Bahadir Kocer Research Associate
PhD Nanyang Technological University. Joined the ARL in Nov 2019. Research Project: Design, Control, and Perception for Aerial Manufacturing: Current approaches could enjoy leveraging static models or they might only rely on training of policies with fixed architectures of neural networks.
Dr. Daniel Gortat Research Associate
PhD in Industrial Photonics, University of Cambridge, 2020. Joined the ARL in October 2020. My research focuses on the industrial applications of aerial robotics in construction with particular specialisation in material deposition methods and repair of structures at height.
Dr. Pham Huy Nguyen Research Associate
PhD Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, 2020. Joined the ARL in November 2020. Research project: Soft Actuation Schemes; Soft Aerial Robotics. My research focuses on designing and utilizing soft actuation schemes for robotics applications.
PhD Students
Peter Zheng
MEng, Imperial College London 2017. Joined the ARL in October 2017. Research project: Morphing multirotor for rainforest applications. This project aims to apply morphing designs to quadrotor robots to aid remote sensing of the rainforest under canopy.
Andre Farinha
MEng , University of Lisbon, 2016. Joined the ARL in November 2017. Research project: Remote sensor placement from aerial robots.
Feng Xiao
MSc, Imperial College London, 2017. Joined the ARL in May 2017. Research project: Bio-inspired Perching for Micro Aerial Vehicles: Inspired by flying insects’ perching strategy. This project aims to find the robotic method for MAV using embedded sensing and intelligence to perch.
Chuqian Lou
MSc, Imperial College, 2018. Joined the ARL in January 2019. Research project: meso-scale manufacturing techniques, control of sensor-limited robot systems, and morphable soft-bodied flying robots.
Dr Julien Di Tria
MEng, Microengineering March 2019, EPFL Switzerland. Joined the ARL March 2020. Research project: AquaMAV: multi-modal aerial aquatic diving plane.
Brett Stephens
MSc Robotics Systems and Control ETH Zürich. Joined the ARL in October 2018. Research project: A multi-modal approach to aerial manipulation, autonomous sensor placement with an aerial manipulator, passive velocity field control of aerial manipulators.
Crystal Winston
BSc Mechanical Engineering. Joined the ARL in August 2019. I am one of five MIT students to receive the prestigious Marshall Scholarship, which provides two years of funding toward a graduate degree in the United Kingdom. Research project: Morphing Wings for Sailing Micro Aerial Vehicles.
Fabian Wiesemüller
MSc ETH Zurich 2019. Joined the ARL in December 2019. Research Projects: Bio-degradable micro aerial vehicle. Bio-inspired lightweight glider: Ultralightweight and bio-mimetic designs for micro aerial vehicles enable new strategies towards a circular economy.
Lachlan Orr
MEng Imperial College, 2019. Joined the ARL in August 2019. Bioinspired construction and maintenance of infrastructure with aerial additive manufacturing methods. The aim of the project is to develop an aerial construction platform capable of performing construction tasks and novel surface interactions.
Undergraduate researchers
Bojia Mao
Benjamin Wong
King Lee
Alumni (PhD & PostDocs)
Dr Ketao Zhang
PhD, King’s College London-Beijing Jiaotong University, 2011. At the ARL June 2016-September 2018.
Now Lecturer in Robotics Mech Eng, Design and Robotics at Queen Mary University of London.
Hai-Nguyen (Hann) Nguyen
PhD, SNU, 2018. Joined the ARL in April 2018-March 2020 as Research Associate.
Dr Barbara Mazzolai
Visiting Faculty from January 2017.
Now Director of the Center for Micro-BioRobotics (CMBR) at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT).
Dr Pooya Sareh
PhD, University of Cambridge, 2014. At the ARL February 2015-May 2018.
Now Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Engineering Design at the University of Liverpool.
Dr Sina Sareh
PhD, University of Bristol, 2012. At the ARL January 2016-April 2017.
Now Reader in Robotics and Design Intelligence-Academic Leader in Robotics at Royal College of Art.
Pisak Chermprayong
MEng, Imperial College London, 2014. At the ARL June-September 2014
Now Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Burapha University.
Dr Talib Alhinai
PhD, Imperial College London, 2017. BEng, University of Manchester, 2013. At the ARL June 2013-2017
Now Founder at Buildrone.
Chang Liu
PhD, University of Southampton, 2017. At the ARL April 2018-Nov 2019.
Now Founder of Extend Robotics.
Dr Laura Margheri
PhD, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, 2012. At the ARL October 2016-2018.
Now Postdoctural researcher at the Center for Micro-BioRobotics of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia.
Dr Robert Siddall
PhD, Imperial College London, 2017. MEng, University of Cambridge, 2012. At the ARL February 2013-September 2017.
Now Postdoctural Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.
Dr Thomas Creedy
PhD, Imperial College London, 2017. MSc, University of Oxford, 2013. At ARL August 2013-October 2016
Now Postdoctural Researcher at the Natural History Museum.
Alejandro Ortega
MRes, Imperial College London, 2015. At the ARL October 2014-2019.
Now Data Scientist at causaLens
Yufei Jin
MSc Aeronautical Engineering, Imperial College London, 2019. At ARL October 2019-March 2020.
Now System Engineer at Boeing.
Alumni Undergraduate
William Denny, MSc 2020
Chunwei Hsu, MSc 2019
Ronglong YE, MSc 2019
Hugo Poissonnier, MSc 2019
Erdeng Yang, MSc 2019
A Slatter, MEng 2019
X Tan, MEng 2019
H Zhang, MEng 2019
Haijun Zhu, MSc 2018
I Berasaluce, MEng 2018
W Lu, MEng 2018
A Navarro-Rubio Poole, MEng 2018
Clement Grillot, MSc 2018
Wei Ng, MSc 2018
Yifan Zhu, MSc 2018
Mariusz Smentoch, MSc 2018
H Chattha, MEng 2017
J Nicholls, MEng 2017
Yu Tan, MEng 2016
Milan Patel, MEng 2016
Marc Emmanuelli, MEng 2016
Andrea Fiorentino, MRes
Haris Nadeem, MSc 2016
Roger Zouein, MSc 2016
Eu Chian Tan, UROP 2016
Maya Nasr, UROP 2016
Rahul Brahmal, UROP 2016
Adam Braithwaite, MEng & RA 2015
Ravina Bains, MEng 2015
Gregory Baker, MEng 2015
Edward McFarlane, MEng 2015
Mohammed Forhad Rana, MSc 2015
Fabian Hualca Tigsilema, MSc 2015
Vasileios Agapitos, MSc 2015
Alan Han, UROP 2015
Anton Alenov, UROP 2015
Graham Hunt, MEng 2014
Faidon Mitzalis, MEng 2014
Grant Kennedy, MEng 2014
Vidyasagar Vidyasagar, MEng 2014
Daniel Colino Llamas, MEng 2014
David Martinez de Castilla, MEng 2014
Fuat Sasmaz, MSc 2014
Georges Badawi, MSc 2014
Pauline Le Bescont, MSc 2014
Thomas Roncen, MSc 2014
Reto Fortunati, MSc 2014
Maximilian Haas-Heger, UROP 2014
Ong Wai Hong, UROP 2014
Thomas Power, UROP 2014
Ryan Yasin, UROP 2014
Ming Ren Quah, MEng 2013
Nikhil Anand, MEng 2013
Ka Liu, MEng 2013
Mathieu de Launay, MSc 2013
Kai Wang, MSc 2013
Yi Wei Tan, MEng 2013
Andrew Kah Hoe Chim, UROP 2013
Amarandaas Kaluvan, UROP 2013
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