Our team
Our team brings together researchers, doctorands, and master
students.
Click on their profile to read their bio or to get their contacts.
Principal investigator
Dr Amir M. Ghalamzan E.
Principal Investigator and Associate Professor in
Robotics and AI at the University of Sheffield (UK)
PhD students
Mai Nasir
M.Sc. in Computer Science, King Abdulaziz University (SA)
Venkatesh Sripada
M.Sc. in Robotics @ Oregon State University
Samuel J Carter
Agriforwards CDT M.Sc. student at the University of
Lincoln (UK)
Collaborators
Dr Fulvio Forni
Professor at University of Cambridge; Collaborator @
IML; PhD from the University of Birmingham (UK)
Dr Soran Parsa
Lecturer at University of Huddersfield; PDRA @ IML;
PhD from the University of Birmingham (UK)
Mr Zixing Wang
PhD student at University of Cambridge; Collaborator @
IML; PhD from the University of Birmingham (UK)
Past PhD students @ IML
Willow Mandil
M.Sc. in Robotics and Automated Systems from the
University of Lincoln (UK)
Dr. Vishnu Rajendran S
M.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Kiyanoush Nazari
PDRA at UCL; M.Sc. in Mechatronics
Engineering from the Sharif
University of Technology (IR)
PhD student @IML - Univrsity of Lincoln, 01.2020 - 06.2024
Dr Tommaso Pardi
Lead AI Scientist at Automata; M.Sc. from the
University of Pisa (IT)
PhD at Extreme Robotic Lab, University of Birmingham, 01.2018 - 01.2021
Dr Nikos Mavrakis
Assitant Professor at Uni of Bimingham
PhD at Extreme Robotic Lab, University of Durham, 10.2015 - 10.2018
Mr Manu Harikrishnan Nair
PhD @ IML (Second Supervised by Amir) 2020-2023, M.Sc.
in Mechatronics from the University of Glasgow
(UK)
Shima Shademani
PhD student @ IML (3rd supervised by Amir) - University
of Tehran
Past Postdocs and Affiliated members @ IML
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)
PDRA Uni. of Oxford, PDRA @ IML 2020-2022, PhD from the
Edge Hill University (UK)
Colalborated to Robofruit (09.2020- 03.2022)
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
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
Assistant Professor at Malayer Univeristy; PDRA @ IML 2022;
PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of IUST
Dr. Omer Faruk Argin
PDRA @ IML 2021-2023; PhD in Mechatronics Engineering at
the Istanbul
Technical University
Past Research Assistants @ IML
Muhammad Arshad Khan
Research Assistant
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:
Elijah Almanzur
AgriFoRwArdS PhD at University of Cambridge
M.Sc. project Deep RL for strawberry picking @ IML (04.2021 - 09.2021)
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:
Clara Bresciani
M.Sc. in Automatic Control at Politecnico di Milano
(2023-2024)
Alessandro Costa
M.Sc. in Automatic Control at Politecnico di Milano
(2023-2024)
Chiara Bigi
M.Sc. in Automatic Control at Politecnico di Milano
(2022-2023)
Gabriele Gandolfi
M.Sc. in Automatic Control at Politecnico di Milano
(2022-2023)
Francesco Castelli
M.Sc. in Automatic Control at Politecnico di Milano
(2022-2023)
Giorgio Bonvicini (2021-2022)
M.Sc. student at Politecnico di Milano (IT), Now
Research Engineer at R4P S.r.l., Milano
Alessandra Tafuro (2021-2022)
M.Sc. student at Politecnico di Milano (IT), Now PhD
student at Politecnico di Milano
Mattia Colombo (2021-2022)
M.Sc. student at Politecnico di Milano (IT)
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
M.Sc. student at the University of Lincoln (UK), Now
CTO of Kreativ IP, Lincoln
Harshada S. Nare
M.Sc. student at the University of Lincoln (UK)
Adeayo Adewumi
Master student at University of Lincoln, Now PhD at
Purdue University, USA
Past Master students (Misc.) @ IML
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)
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
Network engineer
Intern researcher (09-2020 - 03.2021)
Past Undergrad research students @ IML:
Disha Kamale
PhD student at Leigh University (US)
06.2019 - 08.2020
Jack Painter
Software developer at Westfield Technology Group (UK)
B.Sc. project `Autonomous robotic grasping' (09.2019 - 08.2020)
Max Kenny
M.Sc. student at the University of Lincoln
B.Sc. project (09-2019 - 08.2020) on NLP for grasping
Aarushi Guptaa
Undergraduate research Assistant-tactile sensor
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!
