
Left to right: Ysobel Sims, Liam Craft, Trent Houliston, Clayton Carlon (back), Johanne Montano, Liam Patey-Dennis (front), Thomas O'Brien, Angelique Herfel (front), Dexter Konijn
Academic Supervisors
Professor Stephan Chalup: Professor in the School of School of Information and Physical Sciences. Head of the Newcastle Robotics Laboratory and NUbots. Specialises in Machine Learning and Anthropocentric Biocybernetic Computing.
Dr. Alexandre Mendes: Senior Lecturer in the School of Information and Physical Sciences. Deputy Head of NUbots. Specialises in Machine Learning and Optimisation.
Dr. Alejandro Donaire: Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering. Specialises in control systems. Supervises NUbots Mechatronics final year projects in a range of areas.
Dr. Khaled Saleh: Lecturer in the School of Information and Physical Sciences. Specialises in Machine Learning and Autonomous Systems. Supervises NUbots Software Engineering final year projects in a range of areas.
Student Members
Joe Bailey: B Comp Sci. Studying Computing Honours. Vision data generation and benchmarking.
Ethan Bird: Undergraduate studying B Soft Eng. Localisation.
William Burgin: Undergraduate studying B Mechatronics Eng. Localisation.
Clayton Carlon: B Comp Sys Eng (Hons), B Elec Eng (Hons). PhD student in Elec Eng. Team Leader. Electronics and audio signal processing.
Lucinda Fien: Undergraduate studying B Mechatronics Eng. Motion.
Angelique Herfel: Undergraduate studying B Soft Eng. Vision and behaviour.
Kim Khang Hoang: Undergraduate studying B Comp Sci. NUsight development.
Johanne Montano: Undergraduate studying combined B Comp Sys Eng and B Math. Electronics and vision.
Minh Thai "Jimmy" Nguyen: Undergraduate studying B Comp Sci. Behaviour and path planning.
Thomas O'Brien: B Mechatronics Eng. PhD student in Mechatronics Eng. Motions, behaviour and localisation.
Corah Oliver: Undergraduate studying B Comp Sci. Outreach Manager. Darwin-OP assembly and hardware design.
Liam Patey-Dennis: Undergraduate studying B Elec Eng. Outreach and Social Media Manager. Electronics.
Ali Riyaz: Undergraduate studying B Soft Eng. Reinforcement learning behaviour.
Mithun Sivanesan: Undergraduate studying B Soft Eng. Localisation and vision.
Vincent Tumminello: Undergraduate studying B Mechatronics Eng. Motion.
David Wieland: B IT. Postgraduate studying M Data Science. Specialises in community outreach, sponsorships and marketing.
Hengning "Henry" Xu: PhD student in Elec Eng. Control and reinforcement learning.
Junior Members
- Samuel Flood, studying a Bachelor of Mechatronics Eng.
- Jo Lynch, studying a Bachelor of Comp Sci.
- Sean Cyril Yu, studying a Master of Mech Eng
Supporting Members
Past members of the team that are still involved with projects, mentoring, and support.
Brendan Annable: B Soft Eng. Ex-Team Leader. Lead Developer of NUsight.
Dr. Alex Biddulph: PhD Comp Sys Eng, B Comp Sci, B Comp Sys Eng (Hons). Ex-Team Leader. Currently at 4AI Systems. Specialises in the Build System, Machine Learning and Computer Vision.
Kip Hamiltons: B Math and Comp Sci. Ex-Lead of DevOps. Currently at Macquarie Group.
Dr. Trent Houliston: PhD Soft Eng. Ex-Team Leader. Currently at 4AI Systems. Specialises in Software Architecture, Machine Learning and Computer Vision.
Cameron Murtagh: B Math. Currently at AMD. DevOps and software.
Liam Craft: B Comp Sci (Hons). Currently at 4Tel. Hardware design and Machine Learning.
Josephus Paye II: B Comp Sci. Ex-Team Leader. Works on NUsight, our web-based debugging environment, and NUbook, the team handbook.
Ysobel Sims: B Math and Comp Sci. PhD submitted in Comp Sci. Currently at Macquarie University. Vision, behaviour, DevOps.
Taylor Young: B Elec Eng (Hons). PhD candidate in Elec Eng. Hardware and electronics.
Alumni
See Past Members for past NUbots members.