I'm a Senior Robotics Engineer at Leap AI, where I lead development of the robot behaviour pipeline and drive software integration for our next-generation warehouse automation platform.
Before Leap, I worked as a Lead Robotics Research Engineer at Dyson, focusing on motion planning and control for mobile manipulation robots designed for real-world domestic environments.
I hold a PhD from the Intelligent Robotics Lab, University of Birmingham, where my research—“An Adaptive Framework for Changing-Contact Robot Manipulation”—explored hybrid learning-based and classical control approaches for dynamic, contact-rich manipulation tasks.
My primary passion is applying robotics to real-world problems, bridging practical engineering with advanced autonomy. At the same time, I have a strong research interest in intelligent, environment-aware locomanipulation and the control frameworks that enable it.
- Designing and building robot interfaces that enable intuitive testing and iteration
- Implementing intelligent control & planning algorithms for real robots
- Working with mobile manipulators -- real and simulated, especially for assembly and complex interaction tasks
- Exploring new tools, languages, and ideas—and hacking on them in my own way
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