Management Team

Professor Andrew Davison FREng FRS

Professor Andrew Davison FREng FRS
Director of Dyson Robotics Lab

Dr Iosifina Pournara

Dr Iosifina Pournara
Operations Manager

Affiliated Academics/Professors

Dr Stefan Leutenegger

Dr Stefan Leutenegger
Assistant Professor at TUM, Senior Lecturer in Robotics, Imperial College; Affiliated Academic

Dr Robert Deaves

Dr Robert Deaves
Dyson System Architect; RAEng Visiting Professor Awardee

Dyson Fellows

Dr Ignacio Alzugaray-Lopez

Dr Ignacio Alzugaray-Lopez
07/2022 -

Gwangbin Bae

Gwangbin Bae
05/2023 -

Dr Callum Rhodes

Dr Callum Rhodes
05/2023 -

Research Engineers

Marwan Taher

Marwan Taher
07/2021 - REng 01/2023 - PhD Student

PhD Students

Shikun Liu

Shikun Liu
09/2019 -

Hide Matsuki

Hide Matsuki
05/2020 -

Seth Nabarro

Seth Nabarro
01/2020 -

Aalok Patwardhan

Aalok Patwardhan
05/2021 -

Xin Kong

Xin Kong
10/2021 -

Kirill Mazur

Kirill Mazur
10/21 -

Eric Dexheimer

Eric Dexheimer
10/2021 -

Ivan Kapelyukh

Ivan Kapelyukh
10/2021 -

Past Members

Edgar Sucar

Edgar Sucar
10/2018 - 03/2023 PostDoc at Visual Geometry Group at Oxford

Dorian Hennings

Dorian Hennings
10/2018 - 04/2022 PhD; continues his PhD under Dr Leutenegger's supervision

Daniel Lenton

Daniel Lenton
10/2016 - ... PhD; 10/2019 - 03/2020 REng; CEO at Ivy

Dr Tristan Laidlow

Dr Tristan Laidlow
10/2015 - 08/2019 PhD; 09/2019 - 08/2022 Fellow; Senior Researcher Scientist at Boston Dynamics

Dr Zoe Landgraf

Dr Zoe Landgraf
10/17 - 05/22 PhD; Research Scientist (AI & Computer Vision) at Meta.

Dr Kentaro Wada

Dr Kentaro Wada
10/2018 - 03/2022 PhD; Computer Vision Engineer at Mujin

Dr Raluca Scona

Dr Raluca Scona
05/2020 - 11/2021 Fellow; Robotics Research Engineer at Ocado

Dr Shuaifeng Zhi

Dr Shuaifeng Zhi
10/2017 - 03/2021 PhD; Lecturer in National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), China

Dr Charlie Houseago

Dr Charlie Houseago
10/2016 - 10/2020 PhD; Senior Augmented Reality and Machine Learning Engineer at Niantic Labs

Dr Stephen James

Dr Stephen James
10/2016 - 01/2021 PhD; 02/2021 - 05/2021 REng; Head of Robot Learning at Dyson

Dr Talfan Evans

Dr Talfan Evans
04/2020 - 01/2021 Fellow; Research Scientist at DeepMind

Dr Jan Czarnowski

Dr Jan Czarnowski
10/2015 - 04/2020 PhD; 05/2020 - 09/2020 REng; Researcher Scientist Manager at Boston Dynamics

Dr Andrea Nicastro

Dr Andrea Nicastro
10/2015 - 03/2020 PhD; Computer Vision Engineer at Meta

Dr Ronald Clark

Dr Ronald Clark
06/2017 - 09/2019 Fellow; Imperial College Fellow; Associate Professor at University of Oxford

Dr Sajad Saeedi

Dr Sajad Saeedi
09/2018 - 08/2019 Fellow; Assistant Professor, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada

Fabian Falck

Fabian Falck
10/2018 - 09/2019 REng; PhD Student at the University of Oxford

Dr Michael Bloesch

Dr Michael Bloesch
02/2017 - 03/2019 Fellow; Research Scientist at DeepMind

Dr Edward Johns

Dr Edward Johns
10/2014 - 01/2019 Fellow; Senior Lecturer at Imperial College

Dr John McCormac

Dr John McCormac
09/2014 - 02/2018 PhD

Dr Patrick Bardow

Dr Patrick Bardow
07/2014 - 12/2018 PhD; Software Engineer at Google (Zurich)

Dr Robert Lukierski

Dr Robert Lukierski
07/2012 - 09/2016 PhD; 09/2016 - 05/2018 REng; Senior Robotics Engineer at SLAMcore

Owen Nicholson

Owen Nicholson
02/2015 - 05/2017 Operations Manager; CEO and CO-FOUNDER of SLAMcore

Dr Ankur Handa

Dr Ankur Handa
11/2015 - 05/2017 Fellow; Research Scientist at NVIDIA

Dr Jacek Zienkiewicz

Dr Jacek Zienkiewicz
05/2012 - 02/2017 PhD; CO-FOUNDER of SLAMcore

Dr Akis Tsiotsios

Dr Akis Tsiotsios
10/2015 - 11/2016 Fellow; Lead Data Scientist at MarineTraffic

Dr Tom Whelan

Dr Tom Whelan
08/2014-07/2015 Fellow; Research Scientist at Meta

News 2018-2024

CVPR2024 - Best Demo and Honorable Mention

June 2024
For Gaussian Splatting SLAM and SuperPrimitive Scene Reconstruction at a Primitive Level papers

Professor Davison elected fellow of RS

May 2023
Congratulations to Professor Davison who was elected fellow of the Royal Society!

ICCV21 - 3 papers accepted

March 2021
Congratulations to Edgar, Shuaifeng and Zoe who will presenting their papers in ICCV21.

New REng Position

Closing Date: 11 Feb 2021
We look for someone with excellent engineering skills in applied robotics and computer vision.

Dyson Fellow Positions

Closing Date: 26 Nov 2019
We look for two outstanding fellows with expertise in applied robotics and computer vision.

Professor Andrew Davison in Robotics Today

14 May 2020
Professor Andrew Davison will give the first talk in Robotics Today Series of Seminars.

CVPR2020 - paper accepted

May2020
Congratulations to Kentaro who will present his work in CVPR2020.

ICRA2020 - 5 papers accepted

May2020
Congratulations to Tristan, Jan, Zoe and Stephen who will present their work in ICRA2020.

Prosperity Partnerships Award

£5.3M funding for five years
from EPSRC and Dyson to support our outstanding research work in computer vision.

CVPR2019

June2019
Shuaifeng will present his paper, SceneCode, in CVPR2019.

ICRA2019

May2019
Charlie and Tristan will present their papers, KO-Fusion and DeepFusion, respectively in ICRA2019.

DATAI/INRIA and French Embassy visits the lab

September 2018
Prof Andrew Davison presented the lab's work in computer vision.

RE Position

Closing Date: 16 Sep 2018
We look for someone with excellent engineering skills in applied robotics and computer vision.

Honorable Mention CVPR2018

June 2018
Congratulations to Michael, Jan, Ronnie, Stefan and Andy for their CodeSLAM paper.

President's Award

May 2018
Stefan Leutenegger awarded the President's Award for Excellence in Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Imperial Festival

April 2018
Dyson Robotics Lab at Imperial Festival

Estonia President Visits Dyson Robotics Lab

March 2018
Prof Davison, Dr Leutenegger and Dr Johns presented the lab's work in computer vision.

CodeSLAM in CVPR2018

March 2018
Michael and Jan will present their CodeSLAM algorithm in CVPR2018

Contact us

Dyson Robotics Lab at Imperial
William Penney Building
Imperial College London
South Kensington Campus
London
SW7 2AZ

Telephone: +44 (0)20 7594-7756
Email: iosifina.pournara@imperial.ac.uk