Students
Research supervision, project mentoring and student robotics.
I work with students on localisation, robot perception, sensing and autonomous navigation. My role spans PhD co-supervision, day-to-day research guidance and technical support for student teams.
Research students
Daniel Guirguis
Daniel’s PhD thesis is Science Autonomy for Robotics. I co-supervise his research with Professor Salah Sukkarieh as lead supervisor and Dr Jianglin Qiao as fellow co-supervisor.
Nguyen Tran
Nguyen researches robust global localisation for autonomous driving. I co-supervise his PhD with Dr Stewart Worrall as lead supervisor. The work addresses localisation when satellite positioning is unreliable.
Honours research projects
I advise six Honours students on state estimation, localisation, path planning and system integration. These projects connect algorithm development with the practical constraints of autonomous robots.
Martijn van der Markt
Martijn developed a handheld soil-moisture measurement prototype during his internship at the University of Sydney. His work covered sensor calibration, hardware integration and prototype testing.
I provided day-to-day research guidance as the project’s lead researcher. Professor Salah Sukkarieh was his University of Sydney supervisor. Professor Herman Bruyninckx was his TU Eindhoven supervisor. Martijn also co-authored our published study on heterogeneous soil-moisture sensing.
Student teams and outreach
Global Science Journey visits
Hosted visiting school groups from Vietnam at ACFR. Lab tours and robotics demonstrations introduced students to research and engineering pathways.
ACFR’s 2025 visit report · ACFR’s 2024 visit report
Sydney Interplanetary Rover Initiative (SIRI)
Supported SIRI’s student engineers with navigation, sensing and system integration for the 2026 Australian Rover Challenge. The team built and operated a rover for tasks inspired by lunar exploration.
SIRI’s competition recap · Australian Rover Challenge
Engineering work experience
Supervised three Year-10 students as they developed a soil-sample mass-measurement prototype. I guided their design, modelling, fabrication and programming work.
Teaching at NTU
During my PhD (2018–2023) at Nanyang Technological University, I completed 208 hours of teaching and laboratory supervision through the Graduate Assistantship Programme.
Earlier teaching and student leadership
American Center Robotics Club
Assisted with robotics classes for high-school students. I prepared equipment and class materials and helped students with practical activities.
Pay It Forward research club
Helped train junior members of the Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering’s Pay It Forward research club in robotics and embedded systems.