Team
PhD students and postdocs I supervise at the QUT Centre for Robotics, and where my former students are now.
Current students and postdocs
Somayeh Hussaini
Bio-inspired Neural Networks for Visual Place Recognition
Gokul B Nair
Robust Visual Place Recognition and 3D Scene Reconstruction Using Events and Frames
Beverley Gorry
Applying Robotic Vision for Revisiting the Reef
Dhyey Manish Rajani
Uncertainty Estimation for Visual Place Recognition
Vignesh Ramanathan
Asynchronous Event-Based Visual Place Recognition
Venuri Amarasinghe
Learning under label noise for underwater imagery
Ted Vanderfeen
Introspective Reasoning for Robust and Reliable Robotic Perception in Extreme, Unstructured Environments
Melanie Wille
A Systematic Analysis of Class-Specific Performance Differences in Underwater Object Detection
Jake Bessen
Multi-Modal Traversability Estimation in Off-road Environments
Margaux Edwards
Multi-modal Sensor Introspection for Robust Visual Place Recognition
Chelim Lim
Depth-Adaptive Pinhole Models for Underwater Refraction Correction
Faye Diederiks
AI-Driven Prediction of Continuous Ecological Gradients in Underwater Imagery
Close collaborators at the QUT Centre for Robotics
Prof Michael Milford
Dr Scarlett Raine
Dr Dimity Miller
Prof Niko Sünderhauf
Dr Alejandro FontanPostdoc with Prof. Michael Milford
Former students and postdocs
Emilio Olivastri
Postdoc · Sep 2025 – Aug 2026
Reef guidance system and SLAM
Payam Nourizadeh
Postdoc · May 2023 – Aug 2024
Intelligent control for visual navigation
Adam Hines
Postdoc · May 2023 – Aug 2024
Neuromorphic engineering solutions for visual positioning
Therese Joseph
PhD (associate supervision) · Mar 2022 – Jan 2026
Bio-inspired SLAM using Continuous Attractor Networks
Son Tung Nguyen
PhD (principal supervision) · Aug 2022 – Mar 2026
Memory-Efficient Visual Localization
Scarlett Raine
PhD student, then postdoc · Mar 2022 – Aug 2025
Weakly Supervised Segmentation of Underwater Imagery
Nicolas Marticorena
PhD (associate supervision) · Jul 2022 – Mar 2026
Autonomous 3D Neural Scene Reconstruction
Samuel Wilson
PhD (associate supervision) · Dec 2021 – Mar 2024
Post‐hoc Feature‐based Out‐of‐Distribution Detection for Real‐World Conditions
Ming Xu
PhD (associate supervision) · Jul 2021 – Jun 2023
Bridging the divide between Visual Place Recognition and SLAM
Stephen Hausler
PhD (associate supervision) · May 2020 – Dec 2021
Appearance and Viewpoint Invariant Visual Place Recognition Using Multi-scale and Multi-modality Systems