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Appointed Associate Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, working in localisation and mapping.

Accepted into the NVIDIA Jetson Education Program, which provides eligible researchers and educators with discounted developer kits for embedded AI and robotics. Programme details.

Accepted for the Faculty of Engineering AI Pilot Fund with Jianglin Qiao, supporting a research pilot on AI-assisted workflows for planetary-rover planning. Research support.

Provided navigation, sensing and integration support to the Sydney Interplanetary Rover Initiative (SIRI) student team for the Australian Rover Challenge. Student teams.

Joined the ELO2 Consortium as Research Lead for global path planning on Roo-ver, Australia’s first lunar rover 🌙

Our soil-sampling and analysis paper appears in the 2026 volume of IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics.

Our agricultural robotics work featured on CNN Tech for Good: Meet SwagBot 📺

Supervised three Year-10 students during a week of engineering work experience. They developed a prototype for measuring soil-sample mass. Student activities.

Gave an ACFR seminar on autonomous in-situ soil sampling and mapping, sharing system development and lessons from farm trials.

Presented our agricultural robotics research at the Sydney Institute of Agriculture Narrabri Field Day. Event report.

New paper in IEEE RA-L: Multivariate Active Learning and Adaptive Sampling With Multi-Kernel Gaussian Processes 📄

Selected as an Emerging Researcher at the ICRA 2025 Workshop on Field Robotics to deliver a spotlight talk 🏆

Presented our work on agricultural robotics and smart sensors to the NSW Smart Sensing Network. NSSN update.

Martijn van der Markt completed his TU Eindhoven research internship at ACFR on a handheld soil-moisture measurement prototype. I provided day-to-day research guidance. Student projects.

Shared our agricultural robotics research at the Narrabri Field Day, connecting with farmers, researchers and industry.

Presented our research at the University of Sydney’s inaugural Digital Transformation Colloquium.

Presented our agricultural robotics research at PRIMEX Field Days. ACFR event update.

Our MMAUD dataset paper appeared at ICRA 2024, providing multimodal data for drone detection, classification and tracking.

Our Multi-Campus Dataset (MCD) paper was accepted to CVPR 2024. Full dataset access opened alongside the acceptance announcement.

Joined the Australian Centre for Robotics at the University of Sydney as a Vonwiller Postdoctoral Research Associate, working on robotics and AI for precision agriculture.

Our NTU team received third place in the Visual Inertial Track of the ICCV SLAM Challenge on multi-robot, multi-spectral and degraded-condition data.

Our paper on relative transformation estimation using odometry and UWB ranging appeared in the August issue of IEEE Transactions on Robotics.

Awarded my PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at NTU. My thesis is Ultra-wideband-aided Localization for Autonomous Robots.

The patent application UWB Anchor Deployment was published as WO2022086446A1. I am lead inventor on this NTU work on anchor placement for localisation.

Our NTU VIRAL dataset paper appeared in the March issue of The International Journal of Robotics Research. The dataset combines cameras, IMUs, lidar and UWB measurements from an aerial platform.

Our range-focused camera–IMU–UWB fusion paper was published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, studying accurate localisation with reduced drift.

Our NTU VIRAL SLAM team received the second-place academic award in the Hilti SLAM Challenge. I developed the vision-based pose-graph optimisation component. VIRAL SLAM paper.

Returned to Google Summer of Code with ArduPilot as lead developer, working on non-GPS navigation and obstacle avoidance with RealSense cameras. Project details.

Our paper on tightly coupled UWB-aided monocular visual SLAM was published in Autonomous Robots. The work studies localisation with degenerate anchor configurations.

Joined Google Summer of Code as lead developer of an ArduPilot project integrating visual-inertial tracking cameras for navigation without GPS. Project details.

Started my PhD at Nanyang Technological University with an NTU Research Scholarship, researching ultra-wideband-aided localisation for autonomous robots with Professor Lihua Xie.

Our NTU MECATRON Merlion team reached the finals of the Singapore AUV Challenge. I worked on underwater object detection and localisation using sonar, depth and camera sensors.

Joined the ST Engineering–NTU Corporate Laboratory as a Project Officer, working on autonomous robotics.

Our ducted-fan singlecopter paper was published in Science and Technology Development Journal. It describes the vehicle model and control-system design.

Completed my BEng (Honours) at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, graduating as salutatorian.

Led the ducted-fan singlecopter team that won First Prize and Best Presentation at the national final of the Texas Instruments Innovation Challenge Vietnam MCU Design Contest.

Received the Kanden-SS Scholarship for the 2016–2017 academic year.

Received a Best Paper Award at the HCMUT Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Student Research Conference.

Our BK-HCMUT team received the Most Promising Prize at the national final of the Vietnam TI University MCU Design Contest.

Started assisting with American Center Robotics Club classes for high-school students, preparing equipment and helping with practical activities. Teaching and mentoring.

Received the Kanden-SS Scholarship for the 2015–2016 academic year.

Awarded Best of the Best in the AmCham and II-VI Foundation Engineering Scholarship programme.

Received the Dream & Ambition – Automation scholarship at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology.

Received HCMUT’s Sinh viên 5 tốt (Student of Five Merits) commendation for the 2013–2014 academic year.

Received the Lawrence S. Ting Scholarship for the 2015–2016 academic year.

Recognised by Texas Instruments and HCMUT for outstanding technical support to the Raise Your Arm robotics competition.

Received the Sunflower Mission Engineering & Technology Scholarship, supported by Sunflower Mission and eSilicon.

Received the Vallet Scholarship from Rencontres du Vietnam in recognition of academic achievement.

Received a Fujikura Fiber Optics Vietnam scholarship through the Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology.