Current Team

The current members of the NUbots team, and what they do.
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Updated 16 Aug 2025
The NUbots team for RoboCup 2025 Salvador
The NUbots team for RoboCup 2025

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.

Introduction
Areas of Research
Joining the Team
How We Work
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