Our team

Our team brings together researchers, doctorands, and master students.
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Principal investigator

Dr Amir M. Ghalamzan E.

Dr Amir M. Ghalamzan E.

Principal Investigator and Associate Professor in Agri-Robotic at the University of Lincoln (UK)

PhD students

Willow Mandil

Willow Mandil

M.Sc. in Robotics and Automated Systems from the University of Lincoln (UK)

Mr. Vishnu Rajendran S

Mr. Vishnu Rajendran S

M.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering

Venkatesh Sripada

Venkatesh Sripada

M.Sc. in Robotics @ Oregon State University

Samuel J Carter

Samuel J Carter

Agriforwards CDT M.Sc. student at the University of Lincoln (UK)

Collaborators

Dr Soran Parsa

Dr Fulvio Forni

Professor at University of Cambridge; Collaborator @ IML; PhD from the University of Birmingham (UK)

Dr Soran Parsa

Dr Soran Parsa

Lecturer at University of Huddersfield; PDRA @ IML; PhD from the University of Birmingham (UK)

Dr Soran Parsa

Mr Zixing Wang

PhD student at University of Cambridge; Collaborator @ IML; PhD from the University of Birmingham (UK)

Past PhD students @ IML

Kiyanoush Nazari

Kiyanoush Nazari

PDRA at Uni. of Lincoln; M.Sc. in Mechatronics Engineering from the Sharif University of Technology (IR)

PhD student @IML - Univrsity of Lincoln, 01.2020 - 06.2024

Tommaso Pardi

Dr Tommaso Pardi

Lead AI Scientist at Automata; M.Sc. from the University of Pisa (IT)

PhD at Extreme Robotic Lab, Univrsity of Univrsity of Birmingham, 01.2018 - 01.2021

Dr Nikos Mavrakis

Dr Nikos Mavrakis

Assitant Professor at Uni of Bimingham

PhD at Extreme Robotic Lab, Univrsity of Birmingham, 10.2015 - 10.2018

Mr Manu Harikrishnan Nair

Mr Manu Harikrishnan Nair

PhD @ IML (Second Supervised by Amir) 2020-2023, M.Sc. in Mechatronics from the University of Glasgow (UK)

Shima Shademani

Shima Shademani

PhD student @ IML (3rd supervised by Amir) - University of Tehran

Past Postdocs and Affiliated members @ IML

Dr Zeynab Talebpour

Dr Zeynab Talebpour

PhD from the EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)

Affiliated member working on AI, Computer Vision and NLP (12.2021- 09.2022)

Dr Bappaditya Debnath (Rick)

Dr Bappaditya Debnath (Rick)

PDRA Uni. of Oxford, PDRA @ IML 2020-2022, PhD from the Edge Hill University (UK)

Colalborated to Robofruit (09.2020- 03.2022)

Pablo Custodio

Dr Pablo Lopez Custodio

PDRA University of Nottingham, PDRA @ IML 2020-2022, PhD from King's College London (UK)

Colalborated to Lincoln Agri-Robotic (LAR) (09.2020 - 07.2021)

Dr Sariah Mghames

Dr Sariah Mghames

Research Scientist at Simens, PDRA @ IML 2019-2021,PhD from the University of Pisa (IT)

Colalborated to grasp-berry (06.2019 - 03.2021)

Dr Hamidreza Heidari

Dr Hamidreza Heidari

Assistant Professor at Malayer Univeristy; PDRA @ IML 2022; PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of IUST

Dr. Omer Faruk Argin

Dr. Omer Faruk Argin

PDRA @ IML 2021-2023; PhD in Mechatronics Engineering at the Istanbul Technical University

Past Research Assistants @ IML

Muhammad Arshad Khan

Muhammad Arshad Khan

Research Assistant

Oluwatoyin Yetunde Sanni (Yetty)

Oluwatoyin Yetunde Sanni (Yetty)

M.Sc. thesis student @ IML, Sapienza University of Rome (IT), Senior data scientist @ Yuty

Past AgriFoRwArdS University of Cambridge students@ IML:

Grzegorz Sochacki

Elijah Almanzur

AgriFoRwArdS PhD at University of Cambridge

M.Sc. project Deep RL for strawberry picking @ IML (04.2021 - 09.2021)

Grzegorz Sochacki

Grzegorz Sochacki

AgriFoRwArdS PhD at University of Cambridge

M.Sc. project `Data-driven approach for slip prediction in manipulation' @ IML (03.2020 - 09.2020)

Past Politecnico di Milano M.Sc. students @ IML:

Castelli

Clara Bresciani

M.Sc. in Automatic Control at Politecnico di Milano (2023-2024)

Castelli

Alessandro Costa

M.Sc. in Automatic Control at Politecnico di Milano (2023-2024)

Chiara Bigi

Chiara Bigi

M.Sc. in Automatic Control at Politecnico di Milano (2022-2023)

Gandolfi

Gabriele Gandolfi

M.Sc. in Automatic Control at Politecnico di Milano (2022-2023)

Castelli

Francesco Castelli

M.Sc. in Automatic Control at Politecnico di Milano (2022-2023)

Giorgio Bonvicini

Giorgio Bonvicini (2021-2022)

M.Sc. student at Politecnico di Milano (IT), Now Research Engineer at R4P S.r.l., Milano

Alessandra Tafuro

Alessandra Tafuro (2021-2022)

M.Sc. student at Politecnico di Milano (IT), Now PhD student at Politecnico di Milano

Mattia Colombo

Mattia Colombo (2021-2022)

M.Sc. student at Politecnico di Milano (IT)

Marta Crivellari

Marta Crivellari (2020-2021)

M. Sc. from Politecnico di Milano (IT)

Collaborated to Artemis (08.2020 - 02.2021)

Past University of Lincoln M.Sc. students @ IML:

Shashank S. Bhoite

Shashank S. Bhoite

M.Sc. student at the University of Lincoln (UK), Now CTO of Kreativ IP, Lincoln

Miss Harshada S. Nare

Harshada S. Nare

M.Sc. student at the University of Lincoln (UK)

Adeayo Adewumi

Adeayo Adewumi

Master student at University of Lincoln, Now PhD at Purdue University, USA

Past Master students (Misc.) @ IML

david

David Esteban

M.Sc. student at the Sapienza University of Rome (IT); thesis `Reinforcement Learning for slip avoidance control in robotic manipulation'

Oluwatoyin Yetunde Sanni (Yetty)

Oluwatoyin Yetunde Sanni (Yetty)

M.Sc. student at the Sapienza University of Rome (IT); thesis `Camera view generalization using GANs and Bi-GANs'. After IML: Data Scientist, YUTY, Jan 2022, London Area, United Kingdom

Saeid Nakhjavan

Saeid Nakhjavan

Network engineer

Intern researcher (09-2020 - 03.2021)

Past Undergrad research students @ IML:

Disha Kamale

Disha Kamale

PhD student at Leigh University (US)

06.2019 - 08.2020

Jack Painter

Jack Painter

Software developer at Westfield Technology Group (UK)

B.Sc. project `Autonomous robotic grasping' (09.2019 - 08.2020)

Max Kenny

Max Kenny

M.Sc. student at the University of Lincoln

B.Sc. project (09-2019 - 08.2020) on NLP for grasping

Aarushi Guptaa

Aarushi Guptaa

Undergraduate research Assistant-tactile sensor

Yug Ajmera

Yug Ajmera

M.Sc. in Robotics at the University of Pennsylvania (US)

06.2020 - 12.2020

Where do we come from?

We've had members from all over the world: have a look!

Photo gallery

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Collaborations

Oxford University
University of Bristol
University of Birmingham
London Imperial College
Queen Mary University
Polytechnic University of Milan