I am a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow and Lecturer in Robotics and Chemistry Automation at the University of Liverpool. With my group, I am very excited to develop methods towards creating the next generation of robotic scientists for accelerating material discovery.
Research Interests
My research interests lie within the intersection of robotics and applied machine learning, with a particular focus on intelligent robotic manipulation for laboratory environments. I am broadly interested in the following topics:
- contact-based robot skill learning
- failure recovery methods in laboratory environments
- safe human-robot collaboration
- machine vision for laboratory environments
- statistical learning for dynamical and control systems
- physics-constrained learning
Moreover, I am passionate about deploying algorithms to control the dynamic behaviour of robots with the goal of moving closer to robots that can adapt in real-world environments.
Openings
I have multiple PhD studentships available for October 2024. Further details on the position (and others) and how to apply is available in the Openings page.
Most Recent News
(02/2024) Imperial and Liverpool will lead UK’s flagship £12m AI for Chemistry Hub AIChemy - led by Andy and Kim. Thrilled to be part of this exciting research hub.
(02/2024) We are organising the first workshop on Accelerating Discovery in Natural Science Laboratories with AI and Robotics at IEEE ICRA 2024! CFP is out!
(01/2024) Our paper Modular, multi-robot integration of laboratories: an autonomous workflow for solid-state chemistry has been published in Chemical Science. Congrats Amy!
(10/2023) Anna Kisil and Nikola Radulov have joined my group as PhD students. Looking forward to their contributions in the field of intelligent robotic scientists!
(09/2023) Our paper Go with the flow: deep learning methods for autonomous viscosity estimations has been accepted in Digital Discovery. Congrats Mike!
(08/2023) I have been awarded the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship!
(08/2023) Aaron will be presenting our paper on multimodal sensing for laboratory tasks at IEEE CASE.
(08/2023) I have started my new position as a Lecturer (Asssistant Professor) in Robotics and Chemistry Automation at the University of Liverpool!
(07/2023) I gave an invited talk at KCL’s ML/RL Group within the Department of Informatics on Creating the Next Generation of Intelligent Robotic Assistants.
(06/2023) Our paper Autonomous biomimetic solid dispensing using a dual-arm robotic manipulator has been accepted in Digital Discovery. Congrats Ying!
(05/2023) We visited Rossmore primary school for an outreach activity with years 5 and 6 about Robotics and Chemistry.
(04/2023) I visited KIT, TUM-ICS, TUM-MIRMI and TUD as a DAAD AINet Fellow.