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Expert Details

Robotics; Robot Teams/Swarms; Distributed Systems; Reconfigurable Hardware; Autonomous Systems

ID: 728875 United Kingdom

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Expert is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at a university in the UK. He has worked full-time for 14 years with a wide range of robotic systems at the EPFL, Switzerland, the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, Unilever R&D, UK, the University of Brussels, Belgium, and The University of Sheffield, UK. He also developed novel types of robots operating on air tables, underwater, and in confined environments. He has authored more than 60 publications in distributed robotics, including articles in Proceedings of the IEEE, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, The International Journal of Robotics Research and IEEE Transactions on Robotics. His h-index is 21. He serves as the General Chair of DARS 2016 (London, UK), Editor of IROS 2015, Associate Editor of Swarm Intelligence, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine and ICRA.

He has participated in 5 robotics research projects funded by the European Commission and 2 robotics research projects by the EPSRC. His expertise is in the control of robotic systems, in particular, cooperative / multi-robot / swarm systems and self-reconfigurable robotic systems. He has in-depth knowledge of the application of formal and heuristic methods in the domain of robotics and beyond (e.g., computer games).

Education

Year Degree Subject Institution
Year: 2007 Degree: PhD Subject: Engineering Sciences Institution: Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Year: 2003 Degree: DEA (MSc equivalent) Subject: Applied Science Institution: Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Year: 2001 Degree: Diploma (MSc equivalent) Subject: Computer Science Institution: TU Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
Year: 1999 Degree: Vordiplom (BSc equivalent) Subject: Computer Science Institution: TU Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

Work History

Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2014 to 2015 Employer: The University of Sheffield Title: Senior Lecturer Department: Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
Responsibilities:
Head of Natural Robotics Lab. Currently main supervisor of 8 PhD students and 3 Master students.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2010 to 2013 Employer: The University of Sheffield Title: Lecturer Department: Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
Responsibilities:
Available upon request.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2008 to 2009 Employer: EPFL Title: PostDoc (Marie Curie Fellow) Department: LSRO, School of Engineering
Responsibilities:
Available upon request.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2007 to 2007 Employer: Unilever R&D Title: PostDoc (Marie Curie Fellow) Department: Port Sunlight
Responsibilities:
Available upon request.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2006 to 2007 Employer: University of Bristol Title: Research Assistant & Associate Department: School of Biological Sciences
Responsibilities:
Available upon request.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2005 to 2006 Employer: Universite Libre de Bruxelles Title: Researcher (PhD student) Department:
Responsibilities:
Available upon request.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2005 to 2005 Employer: Tokyo Institute of Technology Title: Postdoctoral JSPS Fellow Department:
Responsibilities:
Available upon request.
Years Employer Title Department
Years: 2002 to 2005 Employer: Universite Libre de Bruxelles Title: Researcher (PhD student) Department:
Responsibilities:
Available upon request.

Government Experience

Years Agency Role Description
Years: 2008 to 2009 Agency: EPFL (Swiss Federal Inst of Technology) Role: Scientist Description: Research

Career Accomplishments

Associations / Societies
IEEE, ACM
Professional Appointments
Member of editorial board, International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computing.

Publication Chair of 7th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence.
Awards / Recognition
2 Marie Curie Fellowships;
1 JSPS Fellowship.
Publications and Patents Summary
He has 34 peer-reviewed publications and one book on self-assembling robots that is in press.

Language Skills

Language Proficiency
English Fluent
German Fluent
French Average

Fields of Expertise

artificial intelligence, minirobotics, robot, robot programming, robotics, swarm robotics, distributed artificial intelligence, self-organization, self-assembly, intelligence, microrobotics, robotic gripper, computational method, genetic algorithm, robot design, artificial-intelligence programming language, laboratory, artificial system, artificial neural network, robot vision, remote sensing, numerical optimization, manipulator, cybernetics, computer science

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