Team

Current Students and Postdocs

Somayeh Hussaini

Principal PhD Supervisor and Postdoc Co-Advisor

Bio-inspired Neural Networks for Visual Place Recognition

Feb 2021 - Present

Gokul B Nair

Principal PhD Supervisor

Robust Visual Place Recognition and 3D Scene Reconstruction Using Events and Frames

Jan 2023 - Present

Beverley Gorry

Principal PhD Supervisor

Applying Robotic Vision for Revisiting the Reef

Jul 2024 - Present

Dhyey Manish Rajani

Principal PhD Supervisor

Uncertainty Estimation for Visual Place Recognition

Oct 2024 - Present

Vignesh Ramanathan

Principal PhD Supervisor

Asynchronous Event-Based Visual Place Recognition

Nov 2024 - Present

Jake Bessen

Associate PhD Supervisor

Multi-Modal Traversability Estimation in Off-road Environments

Feb 2025 - Present

Melanie Wille

Associate PhD Supervisor

A Systematic Analysis of Class-Specific Performance Differences in Underwater Object Detection

Jan 2025 - Present

Ted Vanderfeen

Associate PhD Supervisor

Introspective Reasoning for Robust and Reliable Robotic Perception in Extreme, Unstructured Environments

Sept 2024 - Present

Emilio Olivastri

Postdoc Advisor

Reef guidance system and SLAM

Sept 2025 - Present

Faye Diederiks

Associate PhD Supervisor

AI-Driven Prediction of Continuous Ecological Gradients in Underwater Imagery

Mar 2026 - Present

Venuri Amarasinghe

Principal PhD Supervisor

Learning under label noise for underwater imagery

Mar 2026 - Present

Former Students and Postdocs

Payam Nourizadeh

Postdoc Advisor

Intelligent control for visual navigation

May 2023 - Aug 2024

Adam Hines

Postdoc Advisor

Neuromorphic engineering solutions for visual positioning

May 2023 - Aug 2024

Therese Joseph

Associate PhD Supervisor

Bio-inspired SLAM using Continuous Attractor Networks

Mar 2022 - Jan 2026

Son Tung Nguyen

Principal PhD Supervisor

Memory-Efficient Visual Localization

Aug 2022 - Mar 2026

Scarlett Raine

Principal PhD Supervisor

Domain adaptation for segmentation of underwater environments

Mar 2022 - Aug 2025

Nicolas Marticorena

Associate PhD Supervisor

Autonomous 3D Neural Scene Reconstruction

Jul 2022 - Mar 2026

Samuel Wilson

Associate PhD Supervisor

Post‐hoc Feature‐based Out‐of‐Distribution Detection for Real‐World Conditions

Dec 2021 - Mar 2024

Ming Xu

Associate PhD Supervisor

Bridging the divide between Visual Place Recognition and SLAM

July 2021 - June 2023

Stephen Hausler

Associate PhD Supervisor

Appearance and Viewpoint Invariant Visual Place Recognition Using Multi-scale and Multi-modality Systems

May 2020 - Dec 2021