I have recently joined Huawei Technologies Research & Development as a researcher. I am working with Haitham Bou-Ammar at the intersection of robotics and machine learning.
Previously, I was a Research Associate at King's College London, and worked in the Robotics and Vision in Medicine Lab, with Prof Christos Bergeles, and the Contextual Artificial Intelligence for Computer Assisted Interventions Group, with Prof Tom Vercauteren. During my time at King's, my research focused on robotic surgery, human-robot interaction, imitation learning, and shared autonomy. I also collaborated on the EU FAROS project for surgical robot applications in Orthopedic and Neurosurgery.
During the spring of 2023, I joined the Robot-Assisted Surgery Group at KU Leuven, Belgium as a Visiting Scholar hosted by Prof Emmanuel Vander Poorten. Following this, I spent the summer in the Research in Orthopedic Computer Science group at Balgrist University Hospital, Switzerland hosted by Prof. Dr. Philipp Fürnstahl. During these visiting positions, I developed automated approaches for a dual-arm robot engaged in endoscopic lumbar discectomy. These methods were tested on cadaver specimens during my stay in Zurich.
I was a post-doc at the University of Edinburgh in the Statistical Machine Learning and Motor Control Group with Prof Sethu Vijayakumar, and collaborated on the EU HARMONY project for assistive robots in healthcare and also on smart factory projects with Kawada Robotics, Japan. I was also affliated with The Alan Turing Institute.
I hold a PhD in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh, supervised by Prof Sethu Vijayakumar and funded by an iCASE studentship from UKRI-EPSRC and the Costain Group. My PhD focused on shared autonomy for robotics motivated by problems in the construction sector.
In the past, I spent time as a numerical software developer intern at the Numerical Algorithms Group, where I developed and implemented methods for restoring correlation matrices for applications in portfolio analysis and finance. The code I implemented was included in the Mark 25 NAG Library (available in FORTRAN, C, and MATLAB). The project and my masters dissertation was supervised by Dr Craig Lucas and Prof Nicholas J. Higham FRS.
I hold two master's degrees: MSc Computing (Visual Information Processing) from Imperial College London and MSc Applied Mathematics with Numerical Analysis from the University of Manchester. I also hold a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Sheffield.